Happy Birthday Beyoncé

Crazy in Love was Beyoncé’s first collaboration with Jay Z as a solo performer. Since then, the couple, who’ve been married for seven years, have been Dangerously in Love and Drunk in Love.

Not only does she celebrate her birthday on the fourth, but Jay Z’s birthday is on 4 December, her mother’s birthday is on 4 January, this power couple married on 4 April and she named her fourth album 4. She also has a tattoo of the Roman numeral four on her wedding finger and her daughter’s name, Blue Ivy, plays on this Roman numeral.

Single Ladies is an anthem at most weddings for when the brides tosses her bouquet. And who could forget when she thanked her husband for “putting a ring on it”.

If you’re a student at Rutgers University, you can enroll in the Politicising Beyoncé course. Yes! You read that correctly. The university course focuses on US society and racial, gender and sexual politics.

Years after seeing dancers from Mozambique performing the Pantsula dance, Beyoncé used them in her music video for Run the World.

At the 2015 Grammy Awards, Beyoncé became the most nominated female artist in Grammy History. Her earlier Grammy awards were won with the girl group that catapulted her fame, Destiny’s Child. To date, she’s received 52 nominations and won 20 Grammys.

Love on Top is the perfect dance song! And who could forget her first performance of this song when she revealed her pregnancy to the world.

Beyoncé is one of a few people who can say that they’ve had an insect named after them. A horse fly found in Northern Queensland in Australia was named after the icon because of the golden hair found on its stomach. And its name: Scaptia beyonceae.

Flawless has become a new anthem for women everywhere! And with her sampling Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie’s TEDx talk, just perfected this great song!