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All About Tina Knowles, Beyoncé’s Mom

THE RUNDOWN

• Tina Knowles is the mother of Beyoncé and Solange Knowles.
• She has a very close relationship with them and her grandchildren, posting often about Beyoncé’s daughters, Blue Ivy and Rumi, on Instagram.
• She released a memoir, Matriarch, in April 2025, where she wrote about raising her superstar daughters.

She’s Beyoncé’s mom, Jay-Z’s mother-in-law, and the grandmother to Blue Ivy, Sir, and Rumi—but there’s much more to Tina Knowles than just her famous family.

“It sounds corny and cliché, but if everything was taken from me, I promise you, if I still have my family, I will be good,” she told ELLE in April 2025. “I know that from my innermost parts, that as long as I have my family, then we could go through anything. We could lose everything, and we’d be okay. I’ve lost everything before, but I was fine because I had my family. And I taught my kids that.”

Here’s everything you need to know about her.

Beyoncé is named after her.

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Knowles was born Celestine Ann Beyoncé—her last name a misspelling on her birth certificate of her family name Beyincé—The New York Times reported. She was the…