Beyoncé Knowles becomes “a crazy person” if anyone criticizes her sister. The former Destiny’s Child star is very close to her singer sibling Solange, 26. As the older one, 31 year old Beyoncé has always taken her duties as a sister very seriously. “I’m a crazy person if anyone says anything about my sister,” she admitted to Britain’s more! magazine.

“I don’t even know what happens to me. I completely turn into a lunatic… I was taught the importance of being a sister and my sister looking up to me.”As well as being close to her biological family, the star has a tight bond with her Destiny’s Child friends Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams. Beyoncé has nothing but fond memories of her time in the band.

“They were my family… We needed each other so much,” she reminisced. “And we were super tight. We could walk into a room and not give each other the key and sing in perfect harmony… it gives me chills… that unity, that sisterhood, it is how I grew up. We slept as little nine year olds in the same room.”The Bootylicious singer now has her own family with rapper husband Jay-Z and their daughter Blue Ivy. The couple married in 2008 and are still blissfully happy together. “We have such a natural chemistry and a genuine relationship and it’s based on the things that relationships are supposed to be based on,” she smiled. “People just think, ‘Oh how glamorous, two celebrities are together.’ No, first of all, a relationship takes a lot of work, but you have to work on yourself… you have to make yourself happy.”

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It’s always fascinating to see what she’s up to, and Beyoncé Knowles is featured in a new behind-the-scenes clip from her H&M campaign shoot. The “Crazy in Love” songstress looks gorgeous as she prepares for her “Standing in the Sun” gig, and even notes that she has to “learn choreography in five minutes,” for the project.

H&M creative director Donald Schneider explained, "It's incredibly unique to have Beyoncé for a campaign. It doesn't get bigger than that. Of course we have to do something which excites her as well as us.""We have a fantastic creative team who came up with this idea to incorporate the elements; earth, wind, fire and water - to create drama and make something just visually stunning.""She's excited about it and seems really happy. It's kind of a magic moment for all of us. I don't think fashion has ever been shown this way."

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After the successive release of singles in "The Great Gatsby" soundtrack album which include Florence and the Machine's "Over the Love" and Lana del Rey's "Young and Beautiful", comes the much-awaited collaboration between executive producer Jay-Z's wife Beyonce Knowles and OutKast's rapper Andre 3000 (Andre Benjamin). Their new duet is a cover of the late Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black".

Mark Ronson, who co-wrote the original for Winehouse, debuted the track last Friday, April 26 on his East Village Radio show. The audio stream arrived over the weekend. "I'm flattered and honored. I know Amy would be too," Ronson remarked about Bey and Andre's cover.

"Back to Black" first appeared on Winehouse's 2006 album of the same title. On the new version, Andre handles the first half of the song, doing more singing than rapping this time, before the Queen Bey takes over the rest of it. The track appears on the deluxe edition of the soundtrack together with Jay-Z's "100$ Bill" and the ten other tracks featured in the album's standard edition.

Rock musician Jack White, who contributes the single "Love Is Blindness" on the soundtrack, is set to release its vinyl edition through his label Third Man Records. The vinyl edition, which comes "housed in glorious gatefold artwork," will contain three tracks more than the 14 tracks featured in the deluxe edition containing works from other top acts such as the Black Eyed Peas' will.i.am and Fergie a.k.a. Stacy Ferguson, Gotye, Emeli Sande, The Band Perry and The xx.

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U.S. singer-songwriter-dancer Beyonce Knowles released a video from her Mrs. Carter Show world tour, including a clip of her singing "Run the World (Girls)."The footage shows Beyonce on stage in Serbia, Croatia and Slovakia, the first three stops of her tour, which began April 15 and is scheduled to run until Sept. 13.

In the 90-second video, released by Beyonce production company Parkwood Entertainment, the Houston native is also seen singing parts of "Love on Top" and "Halo."Beyonce, who performed in Paris Thursday night, is touring Europe through June 1, then after a nearly four-week break, will start a North American leg in Los Angeles June 28.

Her tour is scheduled to end in Rio de Janeiro. The tour got its name because her rapper husband Jay-Z's real name is Shawn Corey Carter. Beyonce banned professional photographers and news organizations from photographing the tour. The ban follows the publication of "unflattering" photos of Beyonce's Feb. 3 Super Bowl XLVII halftime performance by gossip blog Gawker and viral-content website BuzzFeed.

After publishing the shots by photo agency Getty Images, BuzzFeed received an email from Beyonce U.S. publicist Yvette Noel-Schure "respectfully asking" the site change the images. "I am certain you will be able to find some better photos," Noel-Schure wrote. The request backfired when the site published her request and the least-flattering photos were turned into Internet memes that swept across Web.

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Beyoncé has perfected the art of the tease as she releases incredible video footage from her Mrs Carter Show world tour – just days before she debuts the show in the UK. The video was shared on the singer’s website and provides a front-row pass to the performance.

The footage shows Beyoncé is back where she belongs – and that’s on the stage, putting in one powerful performance after another. There are snapshots of energetic dance routines, some stylish head banging as well as a sultry session on top of a piano. And that’s not all, the singer is seen flying above the audience on a harness, as you do when on tour… Unfortunately no new material is played but the clip does show an incredible set of songs including Halo, Love On Top and Who Runs The World. But one of the most impressive parts of the snapshot we’ve had into the Mrs Carter Show tour is the countless costume changes.

Beyoncé rocks eight different looks in the video (and we imagine there’s many more in the live show) each number more fabulous than the last. The footage serves three purposes, firstly to give those holding tickets even more of a reason to be excited, secondly to share the moment with fans who weren’t lucky enough to make the shows and thirdly to convert anyone who doesn’t already admire this star.

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Chime for Change co-founders Beyonce Knowles-Carter, Salma Hayek Pinault and Gucci's Creative Director Frida Giannini partnered with some of Hollywood's most powerful stars to advocate women's empowerment and spread the love. According to their website, Chime for Change "is a community of people working to promote education, health and justice for every girl, every woman, everywhere."

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Beyonce Knowles – “H&M” Bikini Photoshoot.

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Singer Beyonce Knowles says she gets injured and bruised all the time.The 31-year-old, who is married to Jay-Z and has a over a-year-old daughter Blue Ivy, admits her clumsiness has become a joke. "I`ve fallen quite a few times, so I`ve learned how to fall. It`s very rare that I`m not bruised in my life. I`m always bruised somewhere - like my legs, my hips, I`ve hit something," Britain`s Vogue magazine quoted Knowles as saying.

"We have a joke. Whenever I`ve had a video that`s great, I`ve definitely bled somewhere - the dancing, and the shoes, and the costumes - it`s always a ring or something that slices me. But you`ve already started so you`ve just gotta fight through it," she added.

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We know what Beyonce's wearing for the Mrs. Carter Show World Tour. The star asked Dsquared2 designers (and twins!) Dean and Dan Caten to concoct a number of her concert show outfits. WWD reports Bey will be wearing one tailor-made look from the Caten brothers per tour show. Beyonce comes to the Wells Fargo Center July 25. Who she's wearing when she headlines the second Made in America fest on the Parkway later this summer is TBA. Check back with us for that information.

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The couple - who have 15-month-old daughter Blue Ivy Carter together - jetted off to the communist-led Carribbean island, which the US has a long standing trade embargo against that prevents its citizens from visiting the country, last week to celebrate five years of marriage and their visit was approved by government officials and the Treasury Department because it was a "cultural trip".

A source said that the 31-year-old 'Love on Top' singer and the 43-year-old rapper's holiday was fully licenced as their trip included a number of cultural activities including meeting with Cuban artists and musicians, listening to live music in local clubs, dining in private restaurants and visiting a children's theatre.

The trip was also approved because it was about them having a "people-to-people" experience and did not involve typical tourist excursions like going to the beach or any official activities like meeting Cuban officials.

John McAuliff, executive director for the Fund for Reconciliation and Development, voiced his support for the couple's visit, saying: "It's hard to imagine a more people-to-people contact visit than the scenes witnessed last week on the streets of Havana with two of the United States' biggest music stars wading through crowds of fans they never knew they had."

They were previously reported to have dined at La Guarida restaurant, where the crowd outside called their names until Beyonce waved from a balcony. Waitress Silvia Fernandez said: "She was beautiful, without a drop of makeup, very natural. What happened with the people was incredible."

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