Supply: Lionel Hahn / Getty
“I’m a boss, I’m a pacesetter, I pull up in my two-seater
And my mama was a savage, n—, acquired this shit from Tina”
These are the lyrics Beyoncè rapped on the “Savage” remix with Megan Thee Stallion. Now the world can get some recreation from Tina Knowles, as her mom has written a memoir.
Matriarch, written by Tina Knowles and edited by former Cassiuslife editorial director Kierna Mayo will hit shops on April 22. It should inform the story of Knowles, born Celestine Ann Beyoncè rising up in Galveston, Texas because the youngest of seven and the way she dreamed of seeing the world past her coastal city.
“Matriarch the ebook goes to develop and open new potentialities for the very that means of the time period ‘matriarch’ for readers in all places,” Mayo stated in an announcement. “Matriarchs carry the best way forth. They maintain the middle. They usher in what’s potential. They provide you life.”
Galveston is the place slaves in 1865 had been advised that slavery had ended, turning into the impetus of the Juneteenth vacation which ought to present historic context to the “multigenerational household saga” promised within the ebook’s synopsis.
“That life’s journey — via grief and tragedy, inventive and romantic dangers and turmoil, the nurturing of celebrity offspring and of her personal particular items — is the outstanding story she shares with readers right here,” the ebook’s description reads. “This can be a page-turning chronicle of household love and heartbreak, of loss and perseverance and of the type of creativity, audacity and can it takes for a lady from Galveston to vary the world.”
In 1980, Tina married Mathew Knowles, who grew to become a prime salesman at Xerox Medical Programs. She finally opened Headliners, a hair salon in Houston, the place her daughter Beyoncè has stated she discovered many life classes. Because the world now is aware of, Mathew and Tina raised Beyoncè, Solange, and for part of her childhood, Kelly Rowland.
Although the wedding led to divorce and the general public revelation of Mathew’s infidelities, Tina has stated little about it publicly. However some years in the past, she made public feedback at an occasion saying that the divorce was “devastating” and that she needed to regroup to proceed elevating her kids. Since then, she’s married and divorced actor Richard Lawson.
The ebook will embody her experiences shepherding her daughters to worldwide fame and what she discovered from her mom, in addition to discovering her voice and success amid Beyoncè’s overarching world profession.
Knowles stated in an announcement to Folks, “I’ve at all times been a storyteller, and it’s one thing I discovered from my mom. Once I had a household of my very own, I believed that my daughters wanted to know the place they got here from to know the place they had been going.”
She added, “Even at 70 I’m nonetheless studying beneficial classes — revelations that I want that I might have had at 40 and even 20. So, I’ve determined to inform my story, as a result of I do know what it means to me and my daughters and future generations of ladies.”
Matriarch could be preordered now and has already gone to #1 on the Amazon ebook gross sales chart.
RELATED CONTENT: So Unhappy! Tina Knowles Shares Her Older Brother ‘Butch’ Died Over The Weekend
