Beyonce Is Life: A Superfans Guide to All Things We Love about Beyonce

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Beyonce Is Life is a beautifully illustrated guide that explores and celebrates the singer and her music.


All hail the queen! From her first solo at St. John's United Methodist Church to becoming a part of Destiny's Child, shaping the R&B scene, and becoming a pop icon, Beyonc has taken the world by storm. Gathering her incredible life story, music, and fan culture all in one place, Beyonce Is Life is the reference you need. Get to know her musical family, her talented friends who have helped launch her career, her husband and children who are her inspiration, and the artists who have helped shape her vision. Beyonc Is Life takes it a step further and sheds light on the deep and rich symbolism always present in her music and videos, for example, her spiritual connection with Oshun, the Yoruba goddess of water, fertility, love, and purity, whom she uses as an alter ego with nods to the deity through water symbolism and the color yellow, along with many more Easter eggs and facts. Did you know that Beyonc was supposed to star in the movie A Star Is Born, instead of Lada Gaga Or that she became the first female artist to have the No. 1 album (Dangerously in Love) and the No. 1 single ("Crazy in Love") in the US and the UK at the same time


A comprehensive guide, this book includes:
A full discography, including commentary on cover art, history, and the inside scoop on her new 2024 album
A "Bey-tionary" (dictionary) of terminology, including definitions for terms Beyonc has personally coined, from "put a ring on it" to "Becky with the good hair."
The A-Bey-Cs of Beyonc, from her most impressive A cappella moments to the zodiac signs found in her music
Symbols and Easter eggs throughout Beyonc's music, from a crystal spider web to the Tiffany Diamond
An exploration of Bey's obsession with the zodiac, including sexy Scorpios, fun Libras, and flirtatious Aries
How Jay-Z contributed to her modern sound
Bey's lasting impact on pop culture, feminism, economics, art, film, and music
Her collection of fine art that influences her music and videos
Bey's ongoing work to help education initiatives, disaster relief efforts, COVID-19 relief work, and Black-owned small business


So, grab your best glitter corset and let biographer Kathleen Perricone take you on a journey to everything you need to know to be part of the Beyhive!

Author Bio

Kathleen Perricone is a freelance writer of long-form magazines (bookazines) with published titles about Marilyn Monroe, John F. Kennedy, Anne Frank, Barack Obama, Taylor Swift, Beyonc, and dozens more. Over the past two decades, Kathleen has also worked as a celebrity news editor in New York City as well as for Yahoo!, Ryan Seacrest Productions, and for a reality TV family who shall remain nameless. She lives in Los Angeles.