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Perth Now
2 days ago
- Business
- Perth Now
Tina Knowles opens up on the 'difficulties' of working with Beyonce
Tina Knowles has warned of the "difficulties" that come from parents and children going into business together. The 71-year-old matriarch is mother to Beyonce and Solange, and has admitted that there would often be "disagreements" as she helped launch them both into the entertainment industry. Speaking on the 'Confessions of a Female Founder' podcast, she told Meghan, Duchess of Sussex: "There are difficulties sometimes because if you're dealing with your child or you're dealing with your mother, you know, you have disagreements. "I'm the one that always caves. I've been like that since I was young. If my kids are mad at me, I can't take it. I'll apologise." Prior to Beyonce's fame, Tina worked as a hairdresser and owned a salon in Texas, but it was only in 2024 that she managed to persuade the 'Single Ladies' hitmaker to co-found the haircare brand Cécred with her. She said: "It has been a dream of mine forever and Beyonce has been a big dream of hers, so we have talked about it for years and years and years but she was just not interested in pursuing another business because in her younger years she completely focused on her singing and her skills and all of that. It took some convincing. ~ "I was like 'I'll work on it, we can work on it together...' and finally she said 'Okay, we can start on it'. I didn't want to do it by myself. I just felt like at this point in my life, I didn't want to work that hard for once. I wound up working hard anyway but it's been a labour of love. [Beyonce] is on the stage with hot lights and she wears wigs a lot and she has managed to keep her hair beautiful and healthy, but that is not an easy task when you're in show business!"
Time of India
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Is Dolly Parton set to appear at Beyonce's Cowboy Carter tour?
Singer-songwriter Dolly Parton says she could show up to Beyonce 's 'Cowboy Carter Tour'. The 79-year-old country music legend was "very honoured" when the 'Single Ladies' hitmaker, 43, remade her 1973 classic. However, there's a "twist" where she warns Jolene to stay clear of her man, reports 'Female First UK'. Asked if she can be expected at one of the shows on the mammoth stadium tour, Dolly told the HuffPost, "You never know, anything is possible! Because she really is doing great with that (tour)". Beyonce Nearly Hit By Rogue Robot Arms During Live Show On being "very amused" by Beyonce's take on 'Jolene', she added, "I was very honoured that she wanted to do her version of Jolene. That's all a great compliment to me, when somebody wants to do my songs in any version. I was very amused by her take on that, and I got a big kick out of that. She's not gonna sit back and say, 'Oh please don't take my man'. She's gonna kick some a**". As per 'Female First UK", Beyonce kicked off her 'Cowboy Carter Tour' by raking in a record-setting $55.7 million gross. The 'Crazy In Love' hitmaker finished a run of five gigs at the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California on May 9, and pulled in well over $50 million with 217,000 tickets sold. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like American Investor Warren Buffett Recommends: 5 Books For Turning Your Life Around Blinkist: Warren Buffett's Reading List Undo As reported by Rolling Stone magazine, the Los Angeles run was the "biggest reported single-venue engagement" of the year so far. It was also the fifth-highest grossing tour stop in Boxscore history, beaten only by U2 at the Sphere in Las Vegas across 2023 and 2024, Harry Styles at New York's Madison Square Garden in 2022, and Take That's Wembley Stadium run in 2011. What's more, it also marked the highest-grossing single-venue engagement in history by a female artist. Check out our list of the latest Hindi , English , Tamil , Telugu , Malayalam , and Kannada movies . Don't miss our picks for the best Hindi movies , best Tamil movies, and best Telugu films .
Perth Now
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Dolly Parton hints at appearance at Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter Tour
Dolly Parton says she could show up to Beyoncé's 'Cowboy Carter Tour'. The 79-year-old country music legend was "very honoured" when the 'Single Ladies' hitmaker, 43, remade her 1973 classic - but with a "twist" where she warns Jolene to stay clear of her man. Asked if she can be expected at one of the shows on the mammoth stadium tour, Dolly told the HuffPost: 'You never know ― anything is possible! Because she really is doing great with that [tour]." On being "very amused" by Beyoncé's take on 'Jolene', she added: 'I was very honoured that she wanted to do her version of Jolene. 'That's all a great compliment to me, when somebody wants to do my songs in any version. 'I was very amused by her take on that, and I got a big kick out of that. 'She's not gonna sit back and say, 'Oh please don't take my man.' She's gonna kick some a**!' Beyoncé kicked off her 'Cowboy Carter Tour' by raking in a record-setting $55.7 million gross. The 'Crazy In Love' hitmaker finished a run of five gigs at the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California on May 9, and pulled in well over $50 million with 217,000 tickets sold. As reported by Rolling Stone magazine, the Los Angeles run was the "biggest reported single-venue engagement" of the year so far. It was also the fifth-highest grossing tour stop in Boxscore history, beaten only by U2 at the Sphere in Las Vegas across 2023 and 2024, Harry Styles at New York's Madison Square Garden in 2022, and Take That's Wembley Stadium run in 2011. What's more, it also marked the highest-grossing single-venue engagement in history by a female artist. Beyoncé started her tour on April 28 and returned to the venue on May 1, 4, 7 and 9, pulling in an average of $11.1 million per night with over 43,000 fans in attendance for each show. With three performances as SoFi in 2023, her eight gigs in total was more than any other artist in the venue's five-year history. On the opening night of the SoFi run, the Grammy Award-winner was joined onstage by her daughters Blue Ivy Carter and Rumi Carter. Blue Ivy, 13, danced with her famous mother during her performance of 'America Has A Problem'. Later on, it was time for Beyoncé and Jay-Z's seven-year-old, Rumi Carter, to make her onstage debut. As Beyoncé belted out the moving ballad 'Protector', Rumi and her big sister stood with her under the spotlight. Following the performance, pictures of Beyoncé and her three children - also including Rumi's twin brother Sir - appeared on a big screen behind her.
Chicago Tribune
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
Review: Hubbard Street Dance closes season with hopeful optimism — and Fosse
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's season finale coinciding with Beyoncé's Chicago dates is perhaps just a happy accident. But as last night's freaky dust storm tapered off and audiences settled into their seats at the Harris Theater, Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon's 'Sweet Gwen Suite' was a most poetic opening to the evening. The third of this trio of juicy morsels created for 1960s television specials is 'Mexican Breakfast,' which Beyoncé reimagined in her 'Single Ladies' video. It was a move that kicked off an existential conversation about artistic license, inspiration and ownership. She'd do it again in the 'Countdown' video. And again in 'Lemonade.' (Some say she plagiarized, but it's deeper than that.) In their Fall Series at Steppenwolf, we were forced to wait until the show was three-quarters finished to see dancers Cyrie Topete, Dominick Brown and Aaron Choate emerge in silhouette, hats tipped just right, puffs of cigarette smoke perfectly timed, bedazzled charro suits on point — all images now synonymous with Fosse. That program began with resident choreographer Aszure Barton's contemplative 'Return to Patience,' a tease in hindsight. But as a fitting bookend to Hubbard Street's 47th season, Fosse goes first, making it easy to follow instructions given at the top of every show by artistic director Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell: 'Get your whole life together.' Here, Barton goes last, with a revival of her 2002 'Blue Soup.' The point is, this program doesn't creep or simmer, it goes from zero to 60 and pretty much stays there the whole time. The night's only world premiere, Matthew Rushing's 'Beauty Chasers,' expands on a section of another of his works called 'Sacred Songs.' Rushing created that piece last year as an extrapolation of Alvin Ailey's 'Revelations' — the signature work of the late choreographer's eponymous company, led by Rushing for the past two years. For it, he excavated spirituals used for the original 'Revelations' that got cut as the hour-long ballet was shortened for ease in touring. Where 'Revelations' and 'Sacred Songs' express facets of the African American experience, 'Beauty Chasers' seems a kind of prequel — opening on Topete (who was simply extraordinary the whole night) in a pool of light, wearing flesh-toned underthings. Shota Miyoshi takes a turn, too, elegantly writhing in his own pool of stark white light, then Bianca Melidor. Rushing has said 'Beauty Chasers' loosely references the Holy Trinity from Christianity — the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. For me, it's more like Genesis. In the beginning, there was (designer Jason Lynch's) light, then man. And then there was jazz. And it was good. The piece really begins to cook as a recording of Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders' 'Journey to Satchidananda' drops in, a celestial arrangement for keys, flute, bass and drums. The trio of dancers gradually dresses each time they re-enter the scene, increasingly noticing, accepting and literally leaning on one another. 'Beauty Chasers'' hybrid score (arranged by sound designer Dante Giramma) and costumer Dante Anthony Baylor's final look — red, white and black palazzo pants and matching beaded necklaces — beautifully complement Rushing's blend of modern, afro-contemporary and traditional West African vocabularies. To be sure, it's something new for Rushing, well outside his comfort zone. Thus, the underbelly feels raw and vulnerable — the rewards worth all the risk. A one-act behemoth closing the show, 'Blue Soup' has many hallmarks of what we've come to know of Barton's catalog, enough to make me wonder if this is where it all started. There's a signature tension between the literal and the imagined, moments of authenticity layered with sarcasm and vaudevillian veneer. There are just a few clues the piece came early in Barton's career — mainly in how 'Blue Soup' wears its influences on its big, blue, shoulder padded zoot suit sleeves. Created a year after David Lynch's 'Mulholland Drive,' 'Blue Soup' borrows images from the film, though not quite as literally as Beyoncé borrowed from 'Mexican Breakfast.' Choate appears alone, a vision in a blonde wig, sky-high stilettos, satiny blue robe and leotard — azure blue. Choate awkwardly lip syncs at an old-timey microphone. It's 'Sh-Boom' by The Chords — a bop, to be sure. It's far more ridiculous than 'Mulholland Drive's' 'this is the girl' screen test, a sort of blending of that and the film's darker sections. As the lens opens, the full company joins, facing upstage for what seems like a long time until Angelo Badalamenti's 'Jitterbug' drops in — another nod to 'Mulholland Drive.' Admittedly, 'Mulholland Drive' is canon to me, a very particular film released as a very particular moment in this critic's life. I am thus programmed to adore 'Blue Soup,' but you needn't know any of Barton's tongue-and-cheek references to see how the piece points at the rot underneath the shimmer of Hollywood and the fallibility of a dream. Then there's all this incredible dancing — highlights too numerous to list, though Choate in that blonde wig is certainly one. Another: Andrew Murdock in a phenomenal solo dancing between four downstage circles of light, a kind of washed-up showman torn between what's real and what's imagined. And another: Jacqueline Burnett, back on stage after a long absence as though no time has passed, in the piece's most authentic moments, joined briefly by Elliott Hammans, who somehow supports her from the exact opposite corner of the stage. Despite a big, rousing group dance set to Paul Simon's 'Pigs, Sheep & Wolves,' complete with unhinged, stomping diversions and a fair amount of well-timed hip thrusts, the piece ends rather unsatisfyingly before the company bows. But fear not, you will leave the theater satisfied. You see, unlike 'Mulholland Drive,' 'Blue Soup' is more shimmer than rot, appearing hopeful by comparison — maybe big, rousing group dances just do that. So does text by Maya Angelou ('Sounds Like Pearls' to be exact). Where Lynch gave Barton permission to be weird, Angelou lent Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Spring Series (4 stars) When: Through Sunday Where: Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E. Randolph St. Running time: 1 hour, 45 minutes with one intermission Tickets: $46-$121 at 312-334-7777 and
New York Post
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Beyoncé caves in Sphere feud after James Dolan cease-and-desist threat
Beyoncé removed a clip from an in-concert video showing the Las Vegas Sphere after the venue's owner James Dolan threatened legal action against the pop diva. As first reported by The Post, the 'Single Ladies' singer was given a Monday deadline by Dolan's legal team to halt use of CGI footage that depicts a Gulliver-sized Beyonce striding through the Las Vegas skyline and picking up the LED-covered arena. Clips of the footage were circulated online by concertgoers in Los Angeles who caught 'Queen Bey' during her first shows as part of her just-launched 'Cowboy Carter Tour' last week. 4 Beyoncé was threatened with legal action by the company that owns Sphere in Las Vegas over a CGI video that she played during her recent concert. / 4 The in-concert video from her shows in Los Angeles last week depicted a larger-than-life version of the singer picking up and toying with the Las Vegas Sphere. / Kathleen McCarthy of King & Spalding, the firm representing Dolan's Sphere Entertainment Group, sent a legal notice last week to Parkwood Entertainment, which is owned by Beyoncé. Parkwood was accused of using and digitally altering imagery of the Sphere without obtaining authorization. On Sunday, several fans who attended the concert at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles observed that the segment of the CGI video that included the Sphere was not broadcast. Beyoncé and Sphere representatives could not immediately be reached for comment. 4 Concertgoers who attended her 'Cowboy Carter Tour' shows in Los Angeles last week circulated the clip online, where it went viral. TikTok/br1casso 4 Sphere boss James Dolan is also executive chairman of Madison Square Garden. AFF-USA/Shutterstock Last year, Sphere and Beyoncé broke off talks over a residency at the 20,000-seat venue, which refused to accommodate her request to shut the concert hall for two weeks of rehearsals, sources told The Post. Sphere management also balked at Beyoncé's $10 million asking price to fund her high-tech production, The Post learned. Beyonce's 22-show 'Cowboy Carter Tour' will come to Las Vegas on July 25 and July 26. It will be staged at Allegiant Stadium, which can seat about 65,000 for concerts.
