The book's magnetic center is Mathew, an ego-maniacal control freak and womanizer who's also a promotional genius, but sister Solange provides a jolt with her famous elevator assault on Beyonce's husband, Jay-Z. Knowles herself seems rather square%E2%80%94controlled, tight-lipped, relentlessly focused on success and image%E2%80%94so the drama comes from shedding people who don't enhance her success, from a gauche boyfriend, Lyndall Locke, to the Destiny's Child group-mates who want more limelight. Taraborrelli (Michael Jackson) ascribes Beyonc%C3%A9's success to her preternatural voice, musicality, and stage charisma, all obvious from age 11, as well as the single-minded efforts of her management team: first the amateur impresarios who recruited her for a tweens girl group, then her father, Mathew, who applied his salesman's chops and an inherent business cunning equal to any major-label exec's in order to build her career. Superstardom is a homespun family enterprise%E2%80%94with only minimal dysfunction%E2%80%94in this tepid biography of pop singer and actress Beyonc%C3%A9 Knowles.
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