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In new book ‘Matriarch,’ Tina Knowles traces roots to Louisiana [1]

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Date: 2025-06-17

Even if you’re not a member of the Beyhive and just a casual listener of the music of Beyoncé or any of her incarnations from Cowboy Carter all the way back to Destiny’s Child, you are no doubt a fan of her mother.

Tina Knowles has been in the background—mostly—for all of the public years of her famous daughters (besides Queen B, Solange, and bonus daughter Kelly Rowland). Still, you have gotten glimpses of this mother as an early costume designer for her children, as the first teacher for their carriage and manners, and as the confident for these very powerful young women. You always wanted to know more.

Now, in her book “Matriarch,” published in April by One World, you have the opportunity to learn about the early years and the glamour years of this global persona-mama. Containing family photos as well as text, “Matriarch” follows Knowles’ beginnings in Galveston, Texas, where she was known as Celestine Ann Beyoncé. Both of her parents were from Louisiana, and a recent interview revealed that their roots reach to Weeks Island where the enslaved were surrounded by marshland and alligators. The Washington Post wrote that the book “delves deeper into her own backstory than ever before.” That story includes the women in her family who resisted slavery by keeping their families together.

“Matriarch,” according to the book’s description, “is a page-turning chronicle of family love and heartbreak, of loss and perseverance, and of the kind of creativity, audacity, and will it takes for a girl from Galveston to change the world.”

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In the spirit of feminine musical artists, you may want to read “Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop” music. Published in 2022 by Roc Lit 101, “Shine Bright” received glowing reviews from stellar writers Isabel Wilkerson and Paula J. Giddings and magazines Buzzfeed, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly. Rated one of the Best Books of the Year, this musical history captures a lineage of special women in the music business in a form that Oprah Daily called “a delicious read.”

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