Tina Knowles Biography
Tina Knowles is an American philanthropist, businesswoman, and fashion designer best known for founding the brands House of Deréon and Miss Tina by Tina Knowles.
How old is Tina Knowles? – Age
She is 68 years old as of 4 January 2022. She was born in 1954 in Galveston, Texas, United States. Her real name is Celestine Beyoncé Knowles-Lawson.
Tina Knowles Family
She is the seventh and final sibling. Agnéz Beyincé (née Deréon), her mother, was a seamstress. Lumis Albert Beyincé, her father, was a longshoreman. Her ancestors are African-American and Louisiana Creole. Knowles was raised a devout Catholic. Her ancestors are from Boutte, Louisiana. Her ancestors include Acadian leader Joseph Broussard and French military officer Jean-Vincent d’Abbadie de Saint-Castin. Knowles was a member of the Veltones, a singing group inspired by The Supremes when she was in high school.
What is Tina Knowles Ethnicity?
Her ancestors are African-American and Louisiana Creole. Knowles was raised a devout Catholic. Her ancestors are from Boutte, Louisiana.
Tina Knowles Husband and Children
Mathew Knowles, a Xerox salesman who later quit his job to manage Destiny’s Child, married her in 1980. Beyoncé (born 1981) and Solange (born 1982) are the couple’s two children (born 1986). She filed for divorce from Mathew in November 2009, then dropped the case in 2010, only to refile in August 2011. She blamed the divorce on “discord or conflict of personalities,” which prevented them from having a “reasonable expectation of reconciliation.” In November 2011, the divorce was finalized.
She began dating actor Richard Lawson in the summer of 2013. Knowles had known Lawson for over 30 years before they began dating. They first met because she was friends with his late sister. Lawson stated in a 2018 interview that he had “always admired her from afar and up close too.” On April 12, 2015, the couple married. Knowles became the stepmother of Lawson’s daughter, actress Bianca Lawson, and son, Ricky, through her marriage to him. She also frequently refers to Destiny’s Child member Kelly Rowland as her daughter, whom she assisted in raising beginning at the age of 11 when Rowland moved in with the Knowles family. Knowles stated in a 2015 open letter to Time magazine, “I gave birth to two of you, but I have four incredible daughters,” referring to Beyoncé, Solange, Kelly, and her niece Angie Beyincé.
Blue Ivy Carter is one of Knowles’ four grandchildren. She considers herself a grandmother to Kelly’s two children, in addition to her grandchildren through daughters Beyoncé and Solange.
Tina Knowles Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $25 Million.
Tina Knowles Height
She stands at 5 feet 7 inches(1.71 m).
Does Tina Knowles live in Houston? – House
She bought her Houston home for $3,499,000. The house has 8,885 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 5 full and 2 half bathrooms. Anyway, according to listing information for the 2.6 acre estate, which is located behind the guarded gate of the posh Farnham Park enclave in the affluent Piney Point Village area due west of downtown Houston (TX), the rectilinear residence was built in 1973 and spans 8,885 square feet. According to the listing information, the horizontally inclined flat-roofed mansion has five bedrooms and five full and two half bathrooms.
Did Beyonce buy her mom a house?
Her daughter Beyonce bought $5.9 million. The 23,562-square-foot home was inspired by French and Italian architecture and features granite floors, marble columns, gold-plated fixtures, suspended staircases, and a mirrored elevator. With soaring ceilings and palatial arched windows overlooking a pool and stunning gardens, there are eight bedrooms and 12 bathrooms.
Tina Knowles WACO
In 2017, Knowles and her husband Richard established the Where Art Can Occur (WACO) Theater Center in Los Angeles, a non-profit “dedicated to the empowerment of artists and people in general.” The WACO Theater Center’s Advisory Board includes Beyoncé, Kelly, and Solange.
Tina Knowles Career
Knowles has been featured in Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar, L’Official, InStyle, and Sports Illustrated as a fashion designer. She also created costumes for films such as Dreamgirls, Pink Panther, Austin Powers in Goldmember, Obsessed, and Cadillac Records. She began her career as a makeup artist for Shiseido Cosmetics at the age of 19 when she relocated to California. When her parents became ill, she returned home. Knowles went on to work as a dance choreographer for UAB before becoming a beautician in Birmingham, Alabama. She opened Headliners, a 12-seat hair salon in Houston, Texas, in 1990. The salon went on to become one of Houston’s most well-known hair salons.
Knowles rose to prominence as the Destiny’s Child costume designer. She designed outfits for the members to wear on stage and to events “out of necessity” in the early days of the group’s career because money was tight. She also did the girls’ hair and had them practice their routines at her shop.
Destiny’s Style: Bootylicious Fashion, Beauty, and Lifestyle Secrets From Destiny’s Child was published in 2002, and it discussed how fashion affected Destiny’s Child’s success. HarperCollins published the book. Knowles and Beyoncé co-founded the clothing line House of Deréon in 2004, naming it after her mother, Agnes Deréon. On November 22, 2010, Knowles appeared on The View with Beyoncé to promote her clothing line “Miss Tina by Tina Knowles.”
She expanded the line to Walmart in 2010, after it had previously been sold on the Home Shopping Network. When asked about her design style for the line, Knowles revealed that she aimed to “”Everything, including the dresses, is designed to conceal flaws and create a slimming silhouette.” The pieces are intended to make the woman appear slimmer and taller.”
Knowles was credited as Director of Wardrobe in Beyoncé’s Life Is But a Dream in 2013. She made a brief appearance in Beyoncé: Lemonade in 2016, appearing in the video for the song “All Night,” which includes shots of her and husband Richard Lawson on their wedding day. She made a brief appearance in the background of a few shots in Beyoncé’s Homecoming, a concert film about the singer’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival performances in 2018. Knowles appeared in Beyoncé’s Disney+ film Black Is King in July 2020, which featured music from the soundtrack album The Lion King: The Gift. Knowles appears in the music videos for “Mood 4 Eva” and “Brown Skin Girl,” and she revealed before the film’s release that she had let her daughter borrow art pieces for the project, so she is credited as an art curator on the film. Knowles appeared on The Today Show the same month to promote her Instagram show, “Talks With Mama Tina,” which addresses voter suppression, race relations, and other social issues.
At the Billboard Music Awards in May 2021, Tina Knowles presented Trae tha Truth with the Change Maker Award and introduced Padma Lakshmi. In August 2021, it was announced that Knowles would be producing Profiled: The Black Man for Discovery, Inc. and the Oprah Winfrey Network. Knowles and husband Richard Lawson confirmed in November 2021 that they will remake Black Terror, Richard Wesley’s classic 1971 play, as a film.
