NEED TO KNOW
- Tina Knowles is recalling the time she saved the day on Future’s Kid’s “No, No, No (Half 2)” video shoot
- She served because the group’s hairstylist and ended up reducing her personal hair on set
- Tina writes in regards to the expertise in her new memoir, Matriarch
Tina Knowles has at all times gone above and past for her daughters.
In a captivating anecdote from Knowles’ Matriarch memoir, the 71-year-old businesswoman recalled working into some issue because the hairstylist on Future’s Youngster’s “No, No, No (Half 2)” music video shoot and finally chopping a few of her personal locks to save lots of the day.
On the Los Angeles video shoot, the then-quartet comprised of Beyoncé, Kelly Rowland, LaTavia Roberson and LeToya Luckett labored with Darren Grant as director, Chris Maldonado and Eric Ferrell as make-up artists and Tina answerable for the group’s hair.
“Every lady needed one thing particular, and Beyoncé’s request was that I might let her have highlights for the primary time,” wrote Tina of her then-16-year-old daughter, who’s now 43. “I had gentle blonde ones in my very own hair, however she would have faux platinum blond hair I might glue in as little streaks.”
Upon coming into the hair and make-up space, Tina may already hear Maldonado and Ferrell laughing and having an excellent time — till she entered the room, and so they not solely fell silent however “scowled” at her, she recalled.
The make-up artists used “two large tables” for themselves and left Tina “one little spot on the finish,” however she made the very best of the scenario and grabbed one other desk for her gear, in accordance with the e-book.
Beyoncé then walked into the room, prepared for her fake blonde streaks — however they each rapidly realized Tina “didn’t deliver sufficient,” she wrote. On the time, she sensed Beyoncé’s “frustration” and anticipated Maldonado and Ferrell had been prepared to look at her wrestle to place the look collectively.
Nevertheless, as soon as Beyoncé referred to Tina as her “mama,” the make-up artists’ demeanors modified. “The fellows began laughing, not at me, however at themselves. They confessed they’d been freezing me out,” learn the memoir.
Tina recalled Maldonado explaining his buddy was initially set to type the group’s hair however finally instructed to not come as a result of “the director’s girlfriend was gonna do the hair.” She laughed and famous that she was not relationship the director, who was 15 years her junior.
From that second on, Tina and the make-up artists fashioned a robust friendship — and so they admitted, per the e-book, they had been going to be imply to her earlier than discovering out she was Beyoncé’s mom.
The stress was now gone, however Beyoncé nonetheless wanted extra blonde hair, and Tina discovered a last-minute resolution. “I checked out myself within the mirror, took slightly scissors and commenced to chop some highlights from my very own hair, simply sufficient right here and there to attach into my daughter’s hair with out leaving me bald-headed,” she wrote.
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Maldonado and Ferrell reiterated that Tina is clearly Beyoncé’s mother, per the e-book, as no different hairstylist would reduce their very own hair with the intention to full a glance.
“No, No, No (Half 2)” that includes Wyclef Jean was a breakthrough hit for Future’s Youngster upon its 1997 launch. The tune reached No. 3 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 and topped the publication’s Sizzling R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
Matriarch is out now.