want to remember this is what separates me from everybody else. i do get overwhelmed when i am going to perform because everything has to be perfect, everything has to be so huge. everything we do has to be a moment. the following is a cnn special report. >> beyonce always goes big. from a secret album sensation -- >> beyonce dropped an incredible album. >> to the worldwide stage. >> there's nobody else that sing it like she is. there's nobody else who's giving the energy she's giving on stage. >> it's been a path to superstardom that started with a shy little girl. ♪ >> beyonce was really a quiet kid, kind of to herself. >> whose father launched her career.

>> beyonce automatically stood out. everybody would say that. >> r&b royalty, fashion icon and mother and music mogul. beyonce as you've never seen her from the people who know her best. beyonce ended 2013 with a spectacular surprise. >> and i think it's one of the reasons why i wanted to do a visual album. >> dropping a self-titled album of 14 songs. and 17 videos. it was one of the music world's best kept secrets that completely bypassed the industry's marketing machine. >> listen, you can attract people's attention any number of ways. it ultimately comes very quickly back to is this worth talking about? beyonce dropped an incredible album.

>> it was a fitting end to a huge year. >> i, barack obama, do solemnly swear -- >> that started on inauguration day. >> so help me god. >> with beyonce singing the national anthem. ♪ whose broad stripes and bright stars ♪ ♪ through the perilous fight >> it was a moving moment. ♪ rks er the ramparts we watched ♪ >> every time i look at her, singing for the president and performing worldwide, and then i think, that was my baby. >> darla johnson was beyonce's childhood dance teacher. >> i know that she's beyonce. i know that she's worldwide and everybody know her and everybody scream, et cetera, but even when i see her, she's still my beyonce. ♪ brave, the brave

>> a proud moment that didn't last long. >> did beyonce fake it at the inauguration? >> this was a question on a lot of lips in washington today. >> beyonce and her lip-synch stunner. >> did she or didn't she? >> did she? didn't she? and does it even matter? this was beyonce's response. posted to instagram. online and on air. >> i'm saying leave beyonce alone. >> was it live or on tape? >> she became a hot topic of conversation. >> i'm not surprised that she did lip-synch. >> i still don't think she did, though. >> i just think people think there just has to be something else behind who she is. >> gail mitchell writes for "billboard" magazine. >> that no one is really that nice, no one is really that gracious. maybe that's why people attacked so hard with the whole inauguration lip-synching. >> it turned out beyonce had used a prerecorded track.

>> would you guys mind standing? >> but at a press conference ten days later -- ♪ o say can you see, by the dawn's early light ♪ >> beyonce silenced her critics. the punch line? >> any questions? >> not likely. >> all the different countries. >> matthew knowles is beyonce's father. and for decades managed her career. ♪ >> at 15, 16 years old, you don't quite yet have the maturity to quite understand or how to take criticism. >> i messed up. >> no, that's cool. >> as she's gotten older, now she's a grown ass woman.

so, you know, she understands it. >> beyonce feels this is her time. >> i feel like 30 is the ideal age because you're mature enough to know who you are and to have your boundaries and your standards and not be afraid or too polite. but you're young enough to be a young woman. i'm very aware of who i am. and i feel great. >> for beyonce knowles carter, lately it has been one hell of a run. back in the summer of 2011, there was a tummy rub at the video music awards. by the next january, the singer, dancer, actor, filmmaker, entrepreneur and fashion icon was also mom. and with the birth of blue ivy came a new burst of creativity. >> i think as a new mom, you get a renewed sense of strength of

purpose of whatever. i think that's gelled with her and having blue ivy. >> next thing you know it's super bowl. it's just, you know, one, two, three, let's go. >> beyonce emerged from a four-month break ready for reinvention. >> i think as an artist, you have to constantly reinvent yourself. >> june ambrose is a stylist to husband jay-z and a friend of the couple. >> it's just part of the job that you constantly are under construction. always working to be relevant. always thinking of different ways to make a comeback and not compromise who you are as a woman, as a person. >> and there could be no bigger stage for her next act than the halftime show at the super bowl. >> the crowd's reaction when she stepped out on stage during halftime was now the real show is going to start. it was like, i felt like the football team was her opening act. >> unmatched energy and an eye-popping look. >> she was a superhero. it was scantily clad. it was tough. it was salacious. >> and it was only women on

stage for beyonce. a dream come true. >> i definitely feel that it is my job to empower women. and i remember having this dream that my fans was all females. i told my male fans at the time, i'm sorry, guys, you all are soal enlted but you're not women. >> pop star ne-yo collaborates with beyonce. >> provided the perfect metaphor for the lights out performance. >> how do you think she did? >> how about exceptional? it's difficult because you don't have a long time to rehearse. you've got to be on in a whirl. i think 140 million people watched her. >> does it get any better than

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♪ before she was the diva, before she was the queen b, she was just beyonce gisele knowles. a little girl in suburban houston. >> beyonce was really a quiet kid. kind of to herself. >> hoping to get beyonce to come out of her shell, matthew and tina knowles sent their 7-year-old daughter to darlette johnson's dance studio. >> harder, harder. >> when you first saw her and she first came in, i mean, did you even notice her? >> what i did notice about her is that she was very shy. you ask her what's your name? beyonce knowles. you could barely hear her speak. i said, can you say it for me

again, sweetheart? beyonce knowles. >> but on the dance floor -- >> beyonce would dance so hard that she would lose her costume pieces. sometimes her hat would come off. because she was fierce. >> it was here that beyonce created her now famous alter ego. now, that's sasha fierce. that's who that is. >> when she got on stage she became a different person. >> but no one knew beyonce had a secret. >> i hummed a song and she finished it. and it blew me away. and i stopped and i told her, sing it again. she wouldn't sing it again. because she was -- once again, she was very quiet. very shy. and i promised her a dollar. she sung it again and i was just -- i was floored. her parents came to pick her up i told them, she can sing. she can really sing. >> a multimillion dollar star was born. >> i remember her sitting on the floor and i would tell her, you're going to be so big. and i remember she was looking up at me, i said, you watch.

♪ >> at local talent pageants, the pint-sized powerhouse quickly made a name for herself. >> before beyonce's name was even called, the whole audience was rocking her name, sounding her name. beyonce! beyonce! beyonce! ♪ >> judy fostin took beyonce to many of these pageants. >> she always won the competitions. we may have had 500-plus junior talents and she always stood out. >> thank you. >> adorable. now, are these all the trophies she won from doing the talent shows and the pageants? >> these are from the pageants, yeah. >> yet no one imagined that at this young age beyonce would already face the ugly side of fame. >> in school, you know, there was some jealousy because she was beginning to be a local

star. so there was some jealousy of girls and they said some mean things to her. >> but the bullying didn't stop her. fame came knocking at the door of her mother's salon. >> some ladies came and said you know what? en vogue was hot at the time. they said we would like to form a version of en vogue but a younger version of en vogue. we would like to have beyonce be the lead singer of the group. >> girls time was born. beyonce teamed up with a group of six girls, including her cousin kelly rowland. >> beyonce was kind of the pilot of the group. if they got tired, she would encourage them. i call her the energizer bunny because beyonce keep going and going. ♪ i don't care >> from the local spotlight to the national stage. >> these girls, girls tyme, e d

ended up going to skt star search." ended up competing against some 40-year-olds. >> a perfect score, the challenge, girls tyme receives -- >> they lose, they're crying their heart out. i go over to ed mcmahon and i say, mr. mcmahon, the kids are crying. i'm a dad. what do i do? he said, well, all i know, those who lose, they go back and rededicate, refocus. >> and that's what matthew knowles had them do. in 1995, he resigned from his corporate job at xerox and managed the girls full time. >> i couldn't look them in the eye and say, give it your all if i wasn't doing that. >> so that's a lesson that you taught beyonce kind of by example. this is how you dedicate yourself to this craft. >> yes. and it was difficult. >> all they wanted was a major record deal. and that meant lots of hard work. here's some rare footage of beyonce working on some early recordings.

>> duane wiggins was their producer. >> beyonce automatically stood out. i mean, everybody would say that because she simply was a very focused young lady. >> that focus paid off with a big record contract. michael maldin was an executive at columbia records. >> we could tell she had pipes and we could tell, again, they were young pipes. that's what you want to do is try to find groups that you can incubate, put in the indue cue baiter and kind of develop. >> the group settled on a name, destiny's child, and the hits started coming. like "no, no, no." ♪ >> destiny's child was on the express ride to the top. until -- >> what happened was the girls wanted new management so that was pretty tough for beyonce because her father is manager. >> the two members who wanted

beyonce's father out were quickly replaced. >> beyonce was the one who got the black eye for it. very, very, very unjustly. >> beyonce became public enemy number one with fans and the press. even being called a blood-sucking diva. the criticism was nothing new for the girl who was bullied at age 9 for her talent. but now 10 years older, beyonce was stronger. her song said it. she was a survivor. ♪ i'm a survivor, i'm not gonna give up ♪ ♪ i'm going to work harder >> the publicity from the scandal was seemingly priceless. people couldn't get enough of destiny's child. by the 2001 grammys, destiny's child seemed unstoppable. or at least that's what everyone thought. when we come back, beyonce goes off on her own. hey guys! sorry we're late.

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let's go! give it here. big energy. let's go. give it here. dance like a star. >> listen carefully. >> harder, harder. >> darlette johnson's girls, the ones she calls the next generation of beyonces, are dancing to "crazy in love." >> "crazy in love," i love it. >> don't we all wish we were? crazy in love? >> it's the first single off beyonce's very first solo album, "dangerously in love" and it's the song that launches beyonce as a major solo superstar and leads to the end of destiny's child. >> i knew that that was going to

take her soaring. >> and it did. >> it did. ♪ >> beyonce's part two, the solo career begins with jay-z. he's in her first solo hit and he's in her personal life. from their dating to their wedding to baby blue, the public doesn't learn a single detail until beyonce is ready to spill it. >> so let me show you this. >> an approach she learned from her father. >> i'm not going to talk about beyonce the mom and -- >> what about papa g, the granddad? what do you like to do with blue? >> i'm not going to talk about that. you get nothing. >> i get nothing. >> you get nothing. >> it's a philosophy that beyonce would go on to apply to both her professional and private lives. nobody learns anything about b until she's ready to tell them. well, let's talk about

"dangerously in love." the album did really well. >> yes. >> that first solo album debuted at number one and went on to sell more than 11 million copies. >> the album did really well. and what am i thinking? tour? >> studio, tour, more singles, now. >> normally when the album does very well, you do a tour. >> there's a small tour, beyonce's first as a solo artist, followed by three more solo albums and a total of five solo number one hits, including 2008's "single ladies." ♪ >> movies -- >> because i'm foxy cleopatra and i'm a whole lot of woman. >> a fashion line. >> my mother would make all these beautiful clothes and after so many years, my fans,

they were like, okay we have to buy these clothes somewhere. ♪ oh, yeah >> and numerous endorsements including a new one with pepsi that will pay beyonce to advertise its products and fund some of her creative projects. >> i think it's a huge deal. i think it says a lot about her as a brand, about her music, and that pepsi would do something like that for a black female music artist, that's tremendous. >> it's a deal that demonstrates she is as good a businesswoman as she is a performer. >> my father was such an incredible entrepreneur, and any and everything he said he would have, he worked until he had it. and he taught me there's no such thing as no. >> my personal opinion is she watched. she watched her dad. she watched her mom. i mean, her mom ran a hair salon. she's got this business savvy that a lot of people either -- a lot of creative types, they're

not -- they're one side. >> now beyonce is on her own. announcing years ago that her father would no longer be her manager. i wonder where can she or where does she go from here? >> i think that's a question you should ask beyonce. i think she has the ability, the talent, the passion, fans that she can quite frankly go wherever she would like to go. >> where she went next was hbo. directing an autobiographical documentary that aired this spring. >> power is not given to you. you have to take it. you're playing a part in a much bigger show. and that's what life is. >> we learned more about the personal details she usually withholds, such as the miscarriage she suffered prior to blue ivy. but even before the documentary aired, she was becoming a little freer with personal information,

thanks to a large and active tumblr site. >> so if they're posting it, you're supposed to know it. if they're not posting it, you ain't supposed to know it. >> after the doc, there's a world tour. using her married name. so what could be next? writer/producer ne-yo hinted that beyonce next move would push the edges creatively. >> she's not afraid to take a risk. she's not afraid to take a shot. she's not afraid to do this. if you hit, you hit. if you don't, you don't. >> aside from admitting to some recording sessions with beyonce, he wouldn't say anymore. >> i'm not going to be the one to let the cat out of the bag. y'all ain't going to get me in trouble. no, sir. huh-uh. nobody has the patience to wait for the greatness. they just want everything quick, quick, quick. it's like, if you actually take the time to wait for it, it just

makes it that much better when you actually get it. >> as the world waited, beyonce worked. on the best kept secret in the business. >> i personally think beyonce did it just to silence the critics. there was a lot of chirping. beyonce doesn't know what she's doing. beyonce is in trouble. why isn't this album coming out? >> everyone thought i was crazy. but we're actually doing it. >> the move was big, bold and created tons of buzz. she used her facebook page and instagram account to announce she had a new album. no pre-album hype. no promotion. straight from the beyonce to her fans. >> this is how she rolls. because as launching an album, people anticipate and wait for it. it's just as exciting when she brings it out through social media. everybody's talking about it anyway. >> 800,000 copies sold in just three days. her biggest album debut yet. and an itunes worldwide record. the stunning move just more proof that beyonce is in control proof that beyonce is in control of her own destiny.

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