LA, Feb 16: Beyonce's career is moving in only one direction: straight up. Her five wins and her two electrifying performances during the Feb. 8 Grammy Awards at the Staples Center here were the latest blasts in her rise as a multimedia star.


Father/manager Mathew Knowles predicts that five years from now, Beyonce will be a "triple threat in music, movies and corporate endorsements."

"'It girl' is overused," Essence Magazine arts and entertainment editor Cori Murray says. "But she has it: vocal talent, a gifted songwriter and performer, sexy and sassy, plus a humble spirit."

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With five Destiny's Child albums, her successful solo project, movie roles in "Austin Powers: Goldmember" and "The Fighting Temptations" and a slew of high-profile endorsement deals, she's clearly on her way to super-stardom.
Beyonce's story began more than a decade before the Grammys.
She launched her singing career with Houston-based Destiny's Child when she and girlfriend LaTavia Roberson teamed up in 1990, taking the group's name from a passage in the Book of Isaiah. The duo became a trio in 1992 when Kelly Rowland joined; a year later, LeToya Luckett signed on. In 1997, the group inked a deal with Columbia Records.

Since the 1998 release of its self-titled debut, the group has enjoyed an enviable spate of chart and sales success, including its first No. 1 R&B hit, "No, No, No Part 2."

In 2000, "Say My Name," spun off from the group's 1999, eight-times platinum sophomore set, "The Writing's on the Wall," captured two Grammys.

Roberson and Luckett were replaced by Michelle Williams and Farrah Franklin after challenging Mathew Knowles' managerial control. They later sued their former bandmates and Knowles. Five months later, Franklin split, leaving Destiny's Child as the trio it is today. Bureau Report