>> beyonce dropped an incredible album. >> to the worldwide stage. >> there's nobody else that's singing like she is, there's nobody else giving the energy that 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, mother, and music mogul. tonight, in the spotlight, beyonce. 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. and beyonce dropped an incredible album. >> it was a fitting end to a huge year. >> i, barack, hussein 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. >> every time i look at her, you

know, singing for the president and performing worldwide, and then i think, you know, 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. ♪ the brave >> a proud moment that didn't last long. >> did beyonce fake it on the inauguration. >> this was a question on a lot of lips. >> beyonce and her lip sync stunner. >> did she, 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 she did lip sync. >> i still don't think she did. >> i think people think there must be something else behind what she is. >> gale mitchell writes for "billboard" magazine. >> no one's really that nice, no one's really that gracious. and maybe that's why people attacked so hard with the whole inauguration lip syncing. >> it turns out that 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. >> it's 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. and i did that anyway. >> it's cool. >> so 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 of being 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, and i think that that's gelled with her and having blue ivy. and the 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're constantly under construction. always working to be relevant. always thinking of different

ways to make a comeback and not compromising 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. 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 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 band was all females and i told my male band at the time, i'm sorry, guys, y'all are so talented, but you're not women. >> pop star nio collaborates with beyonce. >> beyonce has evolved into this being that you just expect greatness from, to the point where great isn't even good

enough anymore. >> a coincidental power failure 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 world, i think 140 million people watched her. >> does it get any better than that? >> i would be just as proud if it was ten people. >> what's next for music's hottest star and where did it all begin? >> the whole audience was rocking her name. beyonce, beyonce, beyonce! and that was back when she was like 7, 8 years old. ♪ >> that story, next. ♪ ings awesome, amazing, and that's epic, bro,

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before she was the queen b., she was just beyonce giselle 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. >> when you first saw her and she first came in, did you even notice her? >> what i did notice about her is she's very shy. you ask her, what's your name? beyonce knowles. you could barely -- can you say it again, sweetheart? beyonce knowles. >> but on the dance floor -- >> beyonce would dance so hard, 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 the stage, she became a different person. >> but no one knew beyonce had a secret. >> i hummed the song and she finished it. and it blew me away. and i stopped and i told her, sing it again. and she wouldn't sing it again, because once again, she was very quiet, very shy. and i promised her a dollar and she sung it again and i was just, i was floored. when he parents came to pick her up, i told them, she can sing. she can really sing. >> a multi-million dollar star was born. >> and i remember her sitting on the floor, and i'm telling her, you're going to be so big. and i remember her, 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, beyonce,

beyonce, beyonce! ♪ >> judy boston 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? >> this is 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 began 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, in "vogue" was

hot at the time, and they said, we would like to form a version of in vogue, but a younger version of in vogue and we would like beyonce to be the singer of the group. >> girl's time was born. beyonce teamed up with a group of six girls, including her cousin, kelly rowland. >> beyonce was the energizer of the group. beyonce keep going and going and going. ♪ i don't care ♪ everywhere he goes >> from the local spotlight to the national stage. >> these girls, girl's time, ended up going to star search, ended up competing against some 40-year-olds. >> a perfect score, the challenger, girl's time receives -- >> and they lose and are crying hair hearts out, and i go over to are ed mcmannen. and i said, the girls are crying, i'm a dad, what do they do?

and he says, they go back and rededicate and refocus. >> and that's what matthew knowles had them do. in 1995, he resigned from his corporate job at xerox to manage the girls full-time. >> i couldn't look them in the eye and say, give it your all, if i wasn't doing it. >> that's a lesson 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. >> dwayne wiggins was their producer. >> beyonce automatically stood out. everybody would say that, because she simply was a very focused young lady. >> that focus paid off with a big record contract.

michael malden 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 find groups you can put in the incubator 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, you know, 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, ten years older, beyonce was stronger. her song said it, she was a survivor. ♪ i'm a survivor, i'm not going to 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. r76wh x2ó

let's go! give it here. let's go! give it here. dance like a star. ♪ >> listen carefully. >> harder, harder! >> darlette johnson's girls, the ones they call 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 ii, 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 gonna talk about beyonce to mom. >> 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 both her professional and private lives. nobody learns anything about b. until she's ready to tell it.

>> 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 an 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. >> and numerous endorsements, including 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. >> and 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, the fans that she can quite frankly go wherever she'd like to go. >> where she went next was hbo, directing an autobiographical documentary that premiered in 2013. >> power's 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 that she usually withholds, such as the miscarriage she suffered is 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 nape. so what could be next? writer/producer neo suggests it could push the boundaries creatively. >> she's not afraid to take a risk and take a shot. >> but aside from admitting to some recording sessions with beyonce, he wouldn't say any more. >> and i'm not going to be the one to let the cat out of the bag. you ain't going to get me in trouble, no, sir. nobody has the patience to wait for the greatness. they want everything quick, quick, quick. and if you actually take the time to wait for it, it 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, like, beyonce doesn't know what she's doing, 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 beyonce to her fans. >> this is how she rolls. because launching an album, people anticipate and wait for it, but it's just as exciting when she brings it out throw social media. >> 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 of her own destiny.

>> we're at the airport. kim kardashian is flying from paris. there's a gaggle of paparazzi here. people are crowding around the door, jockeying for position. i'm going to bust in and try to get the best shot i can. that sucks. i'm the worst pap ever.