R&B singer ends long-term management arrangement with father Mathew Knowles
Beyonc� has split with her long-time manager ? who just happens to be her father. In a mutual decision, the singer announced that she and Mathew Knowles have severed their management relationship, giving him more time to focus on his gospel label. "Business is business and family is family," her father said. "It should come as no surprise that at 29 years old, almost 30, she wants to have more control of her business."
"He is my father for life and I love my dad dearly," Beyonc� said. "I grew up watching both he and my mother manage and own their own businesses ... and I will continue to follow in their footsteps." Though Beyonc� has not announced a new manager, it is speculated that she will join husband Jay-Z's Roc Nation roster. She is a "very, very smart businesswoman", Knowles told the Associated Press.
Beyonc�'s father has overseen her career since she first auditioned for gigs as a teenager. While the singer's mother, Tina, was her stylist, Mathew managed his daughter through her solo years, as a member of R&B group Destiny's Child, and during the past decade. Until recently, Knowles also managed the solo careers of Beyonc�'s former bandmates, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams. He is still understood to represent Beyonc�'s sister, Solange.
Mathew insisted this was just a business decision, and unrelated to the recent Knowles family drama. Mathew and Tina Knowles divorced in 2009, after 29 years of marriage; Mathew was alleged to have had an affair, and a baby, while still married to his wife.
"We mutually agreed to part ways in terms of me managing Beyonc�, as my focus is in the investment of Music World Entertainment's growing gospel and inspirational music division," Knowles told Us Weekly, referring to his record label. "Because of the success of these artists, my focus has to be on gospel now."
Mathew Knowles remains manager for Destiny's Child, who split up in 2006. But the group could still reunite, he told Us Weekly, "one day". "Beyonc�, I feel, is the number one artist in the world right now," he added. "That's a great feeling, as a father and manager."
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/mar/30/beyonce-drops-father-manager
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