Nationwide — Mathew Knowles is responding to claims that Beyoncé made him rich after she turned well-known. The music government says he and his former spouse, Tina Knowles, had already constructed wealth earlier than Beyoncé turned a worldwide celebrity.
Throughout an look on the Outlaws with TS Madison podcast, he mentioned his household had constructed monetary success years earlier than Future’s Youngster gained worldwide fame. He credited their Houston-based enterprise, Headliners Hair Salon, as one of many major sources of their early success.
“For all of y’all that speak sh*t to assume Beyoncé made me, no,” Knowles mentioned, in accordance with Advanced. “We have been millionaires when she was… 4 years previous.”
Knowles mentioned Headliners turned one in all Houston’s main Black-owned hair salons within the Eighties. He additionally claimed that he and his ex-wife, Tina, earned their first million {dollars} in 1985, years earlier than Beyoncé’s music profession took off.
The feedback additionally challenged the assumption that Beyoncé grew up in poverty. In a 2013 interview with Vainness Truthful, Beyoncé mentioned she had a snug childhood, attended personal college, lived in a pleasant house, and had a housekeeper.
Past his position in Future’s Youngster, Knowles pointed to his personal profession achievements. He mentioned he had a profitable profession in gross sales, turned the primary Black salesperson in the US to promote MRI and CT scanners for Philips Medical Techniques, and later bought his firm, Music World Leisure, for $10 million.
Knowles mentioned his work with Future’s Youngster targeted on creating an enduring model moderately than merely promoting albums. He credited touring, enterprise partnerships, and world advertising efforts for serving to the group change into one of the vital profitable feminine teams in music historical past.
Knowles mentioned his profession accomplishments must be judged on their very own and inspired individuals to analysis his background as an alternative of assuming Beyoncé was the rationale for his success.
