Beyoncé briefly announced this week the Renaissance launch. This new work comes six years after what is to date his last solo album Lemonade for which he was nominated for best album of the year at the Grammys and won the award for best contemporary urban music album.
The movements in the social media of artists often predict an important announcement. Beyoncé's was no exception. Everything was a strategy to present Renaissance Act 1, the first part of an album that will be published in several acts. Dated for July 29Does anyone doubt that it will give a lot to talk about?
Beyonce is the artist with most Grammy Awards of history, 48 in all. Its long and successful history means that any ad automatically has a global impact. A few written words, the artist has not needed anything else for everyone to talk about this long-awaited return.
Renaissance
What do we know about Renaissance today? Beyond the fact that the first act will be released on July 29, little else has transpired from this work. we only know that It will be composed of 16 songs inspired and composed since 2020.
That the artist has been working on this new job for several years is nothing new. In interviews conducted last year, the artist confirmed that she was wearing year and a half in the studio. Regarding his goal with this new job, he commented then: "With all the isolation and injustice of the last year, I think we are all ready to escape, travel, love and laugh again." "I feel like there's a renaissance coming up, and I want to be a part of fueling that escapism in any way I can. «, He added.
We will have to wait until July 29 to listen to the first part of this new musical project. But, not so much to have many more details about this one, or so we hope!
his latest projects
The fact that six years have passed since Beyoncé published her last work does not mean that she has been stopped. Since 2006 the artist has participated in various projects such as The Carters the musical project that she shares with her husband Jay-Z. And with which they released the album Everything Is Love in 2018.
A year later, the artist composed and gave voice to several songs of the new version of the Disney classic The Lion King. In addition to the artist, other stars such as Childish Gambino, Kendrick Lamar, Pharrel Williams or her own daughter Blue Ivy collaborated on it. One of the soundtrack tracks, Black Parade, won a 2021 Grammy for best R&B performance, giving Beyoncé her 28th golden gramophone.
That same year the artist gave voice to Be Alive, song from the soundtrack of The Williams Method. Beyoncé opened the 94th Academy Awards with a performance of this theme on the tennis courts of Tragniew Park in Compton, accompanied by Blue Ivy Carter, the actresses of King Richard, Saniyya Sidney and Demi Singleton, and the Compton Cowboys Junior Equestrians.
The artist has also collaborated with various artists such as the rapper Megan Thee Stallio in the remix of Savage in 2020 or Nicki Minaj with whom she shared in 2021 Flawless,
A reference
Since rising to fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the R&B girl group Destiny's Child, Beyoncé's career has only grown. In 2014 she was included in Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world and on March 14, 2021, during the Grammy Awards ceremony, she made history by becoming the most awarded female artist in history with a total of 28 awards.
During her last stage, the singer has also reaffirmed herself as a reference in the black community struggle against racism. In this sense, in 2020 he premiered 'Black Is King', a visual album that honors the struggle of the black community and that could be seen on Disney +.
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