“If I Were A Boy” peaked at Number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. “If I Were A Boy” reached the top 10 on two dozen charts around the world. Within 30 minutes, they had written “If I Were A Boy.” Gad told Jean, “We just wrote a smash.” She listed a few things she would do, and because she was heartbroken from a recent breakup, she said, “I’d be a better man than my ex.” The two returned to the studio, where they used the dialogue from that recorded conversation to write some lyrics. Gad, who had his tape recorder with him, asked Jean what else she would do if she were a boy. But if she were a boy, she said, she could just eat the pizza without caring. Jean said that she really wanted some pizza, but because she was trying to not eat carbs, she didn’t think she should. Jean smelled some pizza, which caused her to say, “I wish I were a boy.” Gad, confused, asked her to elaborate. On a break from writing, they went to Times Square. Over a week or so, they wrote several songs together. He invited her to come to New York City, where he was living at the time. Through MySpace, she met producer Toby Gad. Singer-songwriter BC Jean was 17 when she moved from San Diego to Los Angeles to pursue a career in music in the mid-2000s. You can listen to the songs in a Spotify playlist. Read about it here and see the list of previous songs here. A new post about a different song is posted each Monday.
Waiting for me to come home, to come home.This is the 98th post in a weekly series. So they'd think that I was sleeping alone In 2014, she became the highest-paid black musician in history and was listed among Time's 100 most influential people in the world for a second year in a row In 2009, Billboard named her the Top Radio Songs Artist of the Decade, the Top Female Artist of the 2000s decade, and awarded her their Millennium Award in 2011. The Recording Industry Association of America recognized BeyoncГ© as the Top Certified Artist in America, during the 2000s decade. She is also the most awarded artist at the MTV Video Music Awards, with 24 wins, including the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. She has won 22 Grammy Awards and is the most nominated woman in the award's history. Throughout her career, BeyoncГ© has sold over 100 million records worldwide, making her one of the world's best-selling music artists. The album established her as a solo artist worldwide, debuting at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart and earning five Grammy Awards, and featured the Billboard Hot 100 number one singles "Crazy in Love" and "Baby Boy". Their hiatus saw BeyoncГ©'s theatrical film debut in Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) and the release of her debut album, Dangerously in Love (2003). Managed by her father, Mathew Knowles, the group became one of the world's best-selling girl groups in history. She rose to fame in the late 1990s as lead singer of the R&B girl-group Destiny's Child.
Born and raised in Houston, Texas, BeyoncГ© performed in various singing and dancing competitions as a child.
BeyoncГ© Giselle Knowles-Carter (born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, producer, and actress.