Beyonce’s girl steals the show at the Grammys
Beyonce’s girl hilariously stole the limelight at the Grammys by telling her superstar parents to pipe down. But when you’re only 6 and have a stylist, chef, sportswear line and £6,000 frocks, no wonder you think you’re the star of the show...
SHe may be just six years old but Blue Ivy Carter is already showing signs of being a real little diva — and very much the boss of her billionaire parents Beyonce and Jay-Z.
She was taken to the Grammy Awards on Sunday night in LA (something of a tradition — she’s been attending since 2015).
Seated between her parents, she shushed them with effortless authority when they started clapping singer Camila Cabello during her speech — and caused an instant internet sensation.
Of course, you can’t entirely blame the child for her high-handed attitude. But it’s worth considering the peculiar lifestyle which has allowed her to get away with being so spectacularly bossy.
While other children may be playing in the park and having fishfingers for tea, Blue Ivy is already a mogul-in-the-making. She has her own staff, a personal stylist, a chef and bodyguards. Plans are already afoot for her to launch her own fragrance and clothing lines and her commercial worth is such that her name is being trade-marked.
Her lifestyle is beyond lavish. Home is one of five mega-properties — two in Los Angeles and one each in New York, The Hamptons and Miami. Birthday parties are screechingly overstated affairs, and, yes, she already has a pony. Truly a pampered billion-dollar princess.
HER DEDICATED STAFF
IT’S fair to suggest Blue Ivy is never short of attention. There are two full-time nannies. Her younger siblings — twins Sir and Rumi who were born last June — also have two nannies each.
Before she started school, the nannies were reportedly giving Blue Ivy a head start in French, Swahili and art.
The same report suggested she is a ‘picky eater’ which will be a challenge for the chef, who apparently tempts her with wholewheat pasta shaped like ballet dancers and pureed asparagus.
There is also a full time security detail. There were reports that when she was born, in New York’s Lenox Hill hospital in 2012, the security entourage was enormous and obstructed other hospital visitors.
When it comes to getting dressed, she calls on the services of stylist Manuel Mendez, who is based in New York and employed by Parkwood, Beyonce’s management company. For the past two years Blue Ivy has been styled by Manuel, rather than sharing a stylist with her mother, who is looked after by Ty Hunter, or her father who is dressed by June Ambrose.
Obviously all three fashion experts talk to each other about their plans — hence the striking monochrome theme at the Grammys on Sunday night where the parents wore black and she wore white.
MINI MUSIC CAREER
AdORING daddy Jay-Z — real name Shawn Carter, a reformed drug dealer turned superstar rapper and producer — seems to be keen to launch his tot into the business. She became the youngest person featured in a chart single when the noise of her heartbeat taken from an ultrasound scan featured in his 2012 song Glory.
He used a recording of her first cries on the same track. His 2017 album 4:44 (which failed to win in any of the eight Grammy categories in which it was nominated) included a track titled Blue’s Freestyle/We Family. It is a 40-second showcase of his daughter rapping. Some of it is unintelligible but she does shout out ‘Boomshakalaka!’ although it’s a little too soon to say if she has talent.
She has a ‘Feat. Blue Ivy’ credit on the piano ballad Blue on her mum’s 2013 album Beyonce.
Blue Ivy also has a starring turn in Jay-Z’s track Family Feud, and is featured in the seven-minute video, released this month.
The song is about the damage caused by his infidelity and in the video he is seen confessing his sins in church while Blue Ivy sits on a pew and mum Beyonce wanders around.
He sings: ‘Yeah I’ll **** up a good thing if you let me. Let me alone, Becky’ a reference to ‘Becky with the good hair’ who Beyonce said he cheated with in her album Lemonade. Many would question the wisdom of letting a six-year-old star in a music video about the downsides of cheating on your wife. Perhaps it’s little wonder she