She moved to California to work as a make up artist for Shiseido but soon returned when her parents fell ill. Tina Knowles started her career when she was 19 years old. She is the mother in law or rapper Jay Z, Alan Ferguson and ex-mother-in-law of Daniel Smith.Īlso read: Marlene Knaus - Former socialite, Model, Fashion designer Tina Knowles: Career Before fame Her granddaughters are Blue Ivy and Rumi Carter and grandsons are Daniel Julez J. Tina Knowles is now a grandmother to four grandchildren.
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Source: Getty images (Tina Knowles, Richard Lawson) She married her boyfriend on 12 April 2015, making her stepmother of actress Bianca Lawson.
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Knowles went on to date Richard Lawson, an American actor in summer of 2013. Their divorce was finalized on 11 November 2011. In 2009, Tina Knowles filed for divorce citing "discord or conflict of personalities" which prevented them from "reasonable expectation of reconciliation" as the reason. Together they welcomed two children- daughter Beyoncé Giselle Knowles (aka Beyoncé) on September 4, 1981, and daughter Solange Piaget Knowles (aka Solange) on June 24, 1986. The couple had gotten married on 5 January 1980. Her first husband was Mathew Knowles, an American record executive, talent manager, and businessman. Tina Knowles has been married twice and divorced once. Tina Knowles: Marriage, Husband, Children, Divorce Her ethnicity includes African-american, French, Irish.
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Not much is known about her education and teen years except that while in high school, she was a part of a singing group called The Veltones. Source: Instagram (Tina Knowles with older sister Selena in early 2018)