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| Posted: 17 Apr 2019 12:00 AM PDT  Beyoncé documents the journey to her triumphant Coachella performance in Netflix's "Homecoming." (Parkwood Entertainment) (Courtesy of Parkwood Entertainment /Parkwood Entertainment) Contrary to reports, Beyoncé did not wake up like this — it took grueling work. The entertainer documents that work in Netflix's "Homecoming," a feature-length film released Wednesday that takes a look at the days leading up to her flawless and heartfelt performance at the 2018 Coachella festival. Beyoncé became the first black woman to headline the event, which has been held annually in Indio, Calif., since 2001 (after launching in 1999). Her triumphant performance marked her return to the spotlight after giving birth to twins Rumi and Sir Carter in June 2017. Both milestones lent important themes to the performance, dubbed Beychella. Here are five things we learned from the documentary that took us behind the scenes. Beyoncé was still rebounding from a difficult pregnancy when she began rehearsing for Beychella."It's my first time coming home, on the stage, after giving birth," Beyoncé tells us. "I'm creating my own homecoming. And it's hard." The singer first opened up about her difficult pregnancy in an essay for Vogue last year. She had high blood pressure and preeclampsia, a dangerous and potentially deadly pregnancy complication that led to her and Jay-Z's babies being born by emergency C-section. The situation was dire, she reveals in "Homecoming," as one of the twins' heartbeats had paused a few times in the womb. In between footage of her rigorous training, Beyoncé offers a pretty stunning admission for someone who makes everything look so easy: "There were days I thought I'd never be the same," she says. "I'd never be the same physically, my strength and endurance would never be the same." And like a growing number of celebrity moms, Beyoncé talks about the emotional toll that pregnancy and childbirth can have on women. "A lot of the choreography is about feeling, so it's not as technical," she says 115 days ahead of her history-making performance. "It's your own personality that brings it to life. And that's hard when you don't feel like yourself." [Cardi B, Serena Williams, Pink: New celebrity moms are changing the game by getting real] Her rehearsals, and preperformance diet, were no joke."This is grounding. Like no matter who you are, you get in here and it's real," Beyoncé says after taking in a particularly difficult round of choreography. "That's why people don't like to rehearse. You gotta be humble. You gotta be willing to look awkward and you gotta study, be a student." In an early rehearsal scene, it's revealed that the singer was stacking SoulCycle classes on top of her demanding rehearsal schedule. In Vogue, Beyoncé wrote that during her recovery, she focused on "self-love and self-care" and that she "embraced being curvier." But after six months, she "became vegan temporarily, gave up coffee, alcohol, and all fruit drinks." "Homecoming" delves into her strict diet. "In order to meet my goal, I'm limiting myself to no bread, no carbs, no sugar, no dairy, no meat, no fish, no alcohol," explains the singer, who created a meal-delivery service around her intermittent forays into veganism. "And I'm hungry." Thirty-three days ahead of Beychella, the singer celebrates "a huge, huge accomplishment" — getting into her old costume, a sparkly rose gold number she wore on her "Formation" tour. "I'm actually in it and I can move," she says. "I still have a ways to go, but this makes me feel good 'cause I've been sacrificing and working hard." She FaceTimes her husband to share the news. "All right!" Jay-Z says. ("Why aren't guys as excited?" one woman asks as Beyoncé offers an exasperated look to which we can relate.). The documentary cuts to her performing "Flawless." "All right, I want y'all to repeat after me," she tells the energized Coachella crowd. "I'm feeling myself. Say it: I'm feeling myself. I'm feeling myself." "Changed the game with that digital drop / know where you were when that digital popped / I stop the world," she sings, reminding us that she pioneered the secret overnight album drop. "Homecoming's" debut on Netflix also coincided with a surprise album release that features 40 (yes, 40) tracks. Unlike several of her most recent albums, "Homecoming Live" is available across all streaming platforms, not just Tidal, the service owned by Jay-Z. [Review: If 'Homecoming' doesn't convince you of Beyoncé's greatness, nothing will] Her children were a part of the journey to Beychella.Amid the glitz and the glam, "Homecoming" builds an intimate portrait of what it's like to be a working mom. "Just trying to figure out how to balance being the mother of a 6-year-old and of twins that need me and giving myself creatively and, um, physically, it's a lot to juggle," Beyoncé confesses. The singer recalls breast-feeding the twins in between rehearsals and says she had her children with her whenever she could. One sweet moment features Beyoncé grinning from ear to ear as she takes Rumi and Sir into her arms during a break. [What we know about Beyoncé's Netflix documentary, 'Homecoming'] Another, documented in the film's trailer, finds the singer's oldest daughter, Blue Ivy, demonstrating a choreography move. "You have to get three turns," she says. Blue, now 7, is also featured on the "Homecoming Live" album, singing "Lift Every Voice and Sing." ("Beautiful job, Baba," her proud mom says at the end.) "I feel like I'm just a new woman, in a new chapter of my life, and I'm not even trying to be who I was," Beyoncé says. "It's just so beautiful that children do that to you." But she also struggled with being away from her kids. "In the beginning, it was so many muscle spasms and just internally, my body was not connected. My mind was not there," Beyoncé says. "My mind wanted to be with my children. What people don't see is the sacrifice." "Homecoming" succeeds in showing at least some of that sacrifice. "I definitely pushed myself further than I knew I could. And I've learned a very valuable lesson. I will never," Beyoncé says laughing, "never push myself that far again." Beyoncé (and her collaborators) had a deep appreciation for what it meant to be the first black woman to headline Coachella."It's hard to believe that after all these years, I was the first African American woman to headline Coachella," Beyoncé says. "It was important to me that everyone that had never seen themselves represented felt like they were on that stage with us." Bey's performance famously referenced the rich history of historically black colleges and universities and the nine black Greek letter organizations that form the National Pan-Hellenic Council. "To do this and have the Pan and the sororities and things that black families value up on a stage for the world to see and understand us a little bit more, it's just all a blessing," dancer-choreographer Edidiong Emah says in the film. Emah, who was born in Nigeria and grew up in Atlanta, has a family connection to Morehouse and Spelman, two renowned HBCUs. In a title card ahead of the documentary's credits, Beyoncé notes that "so many people who are culturally aware and intellectually sound are graduates of" HBCUs — a group that includes her father, an alumnus of Fisk University in Nashville. "There is something incredibly important about the HBCU experience that must be celebrated and protected." Beychella was also a profound celebration of black womanhood, a theme the entertainer reflects on in a voice-over in the film:
No (we repeat, no) detail was left to chance.This won't come as a surprise if you're familiar with Beyoncé's work and/or if you've seen various YouTube videos documenting her "bossiest moments." (No such video exists for Jay-Z, hmmm). But Beyoncé notes in "Homecoming" that she had a hand in every aspect of her performance. "I respect things that take work. I respect things that are built from the ground up," Beyoncé says, noting that she is "super specific about every detail." That meant that she "personally selected each dancer, every light, the material on the steps, the height of the pyramid, the shape of the pyramid, every patch was hand-sewn. Every tiny detail had an intention." And the singer recalls many meetings with Balmain's creative director Olivier Rousteing, who designed the costumes for Beychella. Among the questions that came up in their collaboration: "How do we look united, but how do we have these different characters that stand out?" It took months to script the show, Beyoncé explains, noting that more than 200 people in total joined her onstage. "You want to make sure you see everything, and I was adamant that we were well-rehearsed and that we knew the show front to back." The performance bucked many festival conventions — to start, there were three sound stages, one for the band, one for the dancers and another for her creative staff. "It takes a huge team, it takes a village, and I think we all worked to our limit," Beyoncé says. One scene shows Beyoncé offering exacting notes on a run-through of the show. The energy isn't translating to footage of the performance, she tells her staff. "Until I see some of my notes applied, it doesn't make sense for me to make more." But it's clear she is immensely proud of the end result. "I know the importance of us feeling like we're a part of something, like we're being spoken to, like it's worth it," Beyoncé tells us. "We all performed with all of our heart, and we performed with love and connection, and we did it together." Read more: While you were asleep, Ariana Grande casually reunited (most of) 'N Sync at Coachella Taylor Swift's guessing games about her music started off as savvy. Now they're essential. |
| Posted: 10 Dec 2018 12:00 AM PST  Isha Ambani, daughter of Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, serves food to guests during an event ahead of her marriage to Anand Piramal. (Ambani family via Reliance Industries/AFP/Getty Images) (Handout/AFP/Getty Images) Isha Ambani's father is the richest man in India. Her family's Mumbai home, named for the mythical Atlantic island Antilia, has 27 stories, three helipads and is estimated to be one of the world's most expensive properties, second only to Buckingham Palace. She has degrees from Yale and Stanford and sits on the board of directors for India's largest retailer and its largest 4G network. And just last week, Ambani, 27, stood beside Priyanka Chopra as the international star wore a 75-foot veil and married pop singer Nick Jonas. So how does a gal make herself stand out amid so much opulence? Beyoncé. Always Beyoncé. Ambani is about to be married, and at her pre-wedding festivities Sunday in Udaipur, Rajasthan, Beyoncé performed a private concert for the bride-to-be's guests. It wasn't just a few songs, either. At the luxe Oberoi Udaivilas hotel, Beyoncé sang "Crazy in Love," "Naughty Girl" and "Perfect," according to reports, and cycled through several outfit changes that were detailed in the Indian media. One ensemble, a red dress from Indian designers Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla, which included a headpiece and bracelets that resembled traditional Indian accessories, led some to criticize Beyoncé, calling it an act of cultural appropriation. But others, many of whom identified themselves as South Asian, defended Beyoncé online and said her look was instead cultural appreciation. (The bride and groom did not weigh in on the matter.) Beyoncé's private concert has helped draw international attention to the wedding of Ambani and Anand Piramal later this week. The lavish, days-long celebration has been dubbed "the big, fat Indian wedding," and the guest list — which includes Hillary Clinton, Arianna Huffington and much of Bollywood — explains why. Attendees arrived by chartered planes and luxury sedans, reported Reuters, and were given access to an app that mapped out the wedding festivities. Other VIP guests reportedly included newlyweds Chopra and Jonas, legendary Indian cricket player Sachin Tendulkar, 21st Century Fox chief executive James Murdoch, and Bollywood stars, such as Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh, who were themselves married last month at a lavish ceremony in Lake Como, Italy, and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. The week-long party is going to cost an estimated $100 million, according to Bloomberg News. A family representative told Bloomberg News that the Ambanis set up a bazaar to showcase the work of local artisans, and donated enough food to the city of Udaipur to feed 5,100 people three meals a day for four days.  Beyoncé arrives at the Udaipur airport in Rajasthan, India, where she was invited to perform at a pre-wedding celebration for Isha Ambani and Anand Piramal. (Rohit Kothari/AP) The union of Ambani and Piramal will bring together the business empires of two of India's wealthiest, most influential families. Ambani's father, Mukesh Ambani, is the 19th richest man in the world, with a net worth of $43.4 billion, according to Forbes. He is chairman of Reliance Industries, an oil and gas company that his father began as a small textile manufacturer in the 1960s. In 2016, Ambani founded the 4G phone service Jio — an idea planted years earlier by his daughter while she was a student at Yale. Isha Ambani graduated from the Ivy League institution and worked as a business analyst in New York, according to the Economic Times. She later joined the boards of Jio and Reliance Retail, a branch of Reliance Industries, and earned a master's in business administration from Stanford. Ambani's mother, Nita Ambani, is an international power player in the realm of philanthropy. She founded the Dhirubhai Ambani International School in Mumbai, oversees the Reliance Foundation and is India's first female member of the International Olympic Committee. Hillary Clinton poses with Isha Ambani, left, and her mother, Nita Ambani, at Swadesh Bazaar, a curated showcase of traditional Indian crafts and art forms, in Udaipur, India. (Handout via Reuters) Isha Ambani's soon-to-be husband, Piramal, 33, is the executive director of the Piramal Group, a business conglomerate founded by his father, Ajay Piramal. The elder Piramal has an estimated net worth of $4.2 billion, according to Forbes, making him the 24th wealthiest person in India. Anand Piramal has degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard. He founded Piramal Realty and Piramal Swasthya, a rural health-care initiative. The Ambani and Piramal families are longtime friends, reported the India Times, and the bride and groom have known each other since childhood. Beyoncé's weekend performance was the culmination of two days of celebrations as part of the couple's wedding sangeet, a traditional party that takes place in the days leading up to the formal wedding ceremony. Before Beyoncé stole the show, eyes were on Clinton and another former secretary of state, John F. Kerry — both of whom danced the bhangra, a Punjabi folk dance, onstage with the Ambani family, according to India Today. The festivities in Udaipur ended with the weekend, and guests will head to Mumbai for the wedding, which is scheduled to take place on Wednesday at Antilia, the Ambani family home that has a staff of 600 people, six floors of parking and can withstand an earthquake whose magnitude is 8. |
| Netflix Teases Beyonce Coachella Concert Doc, Announces Premiere Date - Variety Posted: 07 Apr 2019 12:00 AM PDT Just a week after Beyonce was crowned Entertainer of the Year at the NAACP Image Awards, the Beyhive has another reason to celebrate. Netflix posted a tweet Sunday teasing its rumored upcoming Beyonce concert documentary, which will reportedly highlight her 2018 performance at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. The tweet did not include any teaser footage, simply a yellow title card with the phrase "Homecoming" on it, using Greek-style lettering for the E and O's. That coloring and the Greek theme mirrors one of the outfits the "Drunk In Love" singer wore during her Coachella performance, which gave a nod to historically black colleges and universities. The card also announced that the doc would drop April 17, the week of Coachella's second weekend. Beyonce was the first black woman to headline Coachella, and announced the Homecoming Scholars Awards Program to coincide with the event. The initiative provides scholarships to students attending HBCUs. Variety has reached out to Netflix for comment. The teaser immediately incited reactions online, with fans thanking the singer and expressing their excitement. "Beyonce thank you," wrote TV writer and podcaster Ira Madison. "April 17 is my 30th birthday and Beyonce is providing," Vulture writer Angelica Jade Bastien tweeted. More reactions below: |
| Beyoncé Is Offering Fans Lifetime Of Free Tickets - But There's A Catch - ELLE.com Posted: 30 Jan 2019 12:00 AM PST Beyoncé has announced that she is offering a lifetime of free tickets to any of her or Jay Z's shows - but the lucky winner will have to go vegan, and live in the US. The 37-year-old star shared news of the exciting competition on her Instagram page in collaboration with The Greenprint Project, which highlights the positive impact that a vegan lifestyle can have on the environment. 'The facts about plant-based eating are hard to ignore,' the project says. 'The benefits of a single plant-based meal per day can have a profound impact on our health and the environment.' 'Our Greenprint is the positive impact we can have on the world by eating plant-based meals,' the website explains. 'We each have the potential to save our planet with our meal choices.'  Kevin MazurGetty Images Author, trainer and personal friend to Bey and Jay Z, Marco Borges, published the book The Greenprint: Plant-Based Diet, Best Body, Better World, which includes a foreword from the couple. The book says that by following its 22 proven effective guidelines, you will shift your mindset, improve your health, lose weight, and impact the planet for the better. Beyoncé and Jay Z have embraced the vegan lifestyle for health purposes and in a bid to improve the planet, which accelerated after they started a family. 'Having children has changed our lives more than anything else,' she and Jay Z state in the introduction. 'We used to think of health as a diet – some worked for us, some didn't. Once we looked at health as the truth, instead of a diet, it became a mission for us to share that truth and lifestyle with as many people as possible.  Getty Images 'We all have a responsibility to stand up for our health and the health of the planet. Let's take this stand together. Let's spread the truth. Let's make this mission a movement. Let's become "the Greenprint"'. Beyonce adds that her Greenprint is 'plant based for breakfast' and 'meatless Mondays'. The star recently revealed that she was going full vegan in preparation for Coachella, and invited fans to join her. |
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