Angela Renee Beyincé (born October 25, 1976) is an American songwriter, actress, and music executive. She is a cousin of American singers
Beyoncé
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter ( ; born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman. With a career spanning over three decades, she has established herself as one of the most Cultural impact of Beyoncé, ...
and
Solange Knowles
Solange Piaget Knowles (; born June 24, 1986) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She expressed an interest in music from an early age and had temporary stints as a backup dancer for Destiny's Child, which featured her older sister ...
, and has made songwriting contributions to several of Beyoncé's albums including ''
Dangerously in Love'', ''
Destiny Fulfilled
''Destiny Fulfilled'' is the fifth and final studio album by American girl group Destiny's Child
Destiny's Child was an American girl group whose final lineup comprised Beyoncé, Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland, and Michelle Williams ( ...
'', ''
B'Day'', and ''
I Am... Sasha Fierce''. She was cast as hair salon assistant Pamela "Pam" Malbrough in the
Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry (born Emmitt Perry Jr., September 13, 1969) is an American actor, filmmaker, and playwright. He is the creator and performer of Madea, Mabel "Madea" Simmons, a tough elderly woman, and also portrays her brother Joe Simmons and her ...
-created
BET
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comedy drama series ''
Sistas''.
Career
Parkwood Entertainment
Beyincé began her career in the entertainment industry as an officially-credited assistant on Beyoncé co-starring films ''
The Fighting Temptations
''The Fighting Temptations'' is a 2003 American musical comedy film directed by Jonathan Lynn, written by Elizabeth Hunter and Saladin K. Patterson, and distributed by Paramount Pictures and MTV Films. Cuba Gooding Jr. plays a man who returns to ...
'' (2003), ''
The Pink Panther
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'' (2006), and ''
Dreamgirls
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'' (2006). She also worked as Vice President of Operations at
Parkwood Entertainment during the planning, execution, negotiations, and release of Beyoncé's
surprise fifth studio album, with the Parkwood team and their decisions later analyzed in a
Harvard Business School
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case.
Songwriting
In the early 2000s, Beyincé was a frequent co-writer and participant in Beyoncé's studio sessions, resulting in songwriting credits on many of her songs, including "
Get Me Bodied", "
Why Don't You Love Me", "
Upgrade U", and the hit song
"Naughty Girl", as well as the number one single "
Check on It
"Check on It" is a song recorded by American singer Beyoncé. It was written by her, Swizz Beatz, Sean Garrett, Angela Beyincé and Slim Thug, and produced by Swizz Beatz. Serving as the main theme of the 2006 film ''The Pink Panther'', in whic ...
". She has also written songs for Destiny's Child ("
Girl
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"),
K-pop
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group
Playback, close friend
Kelly Rowland
Kelendria Trene Rowland (born February 11, 1981) is an American singer, actress, and television personality. She rose to fame in the late 1990s as a member of Destiny's Child, one of the world's List of best-selling girl groups, best-selling gir ...
, and the
Fox
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Twelve species ...
television show ''
Star
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''. Her contributions to various albums have resulted in several
ASCAP
The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) () is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that collectively licenses the public performance rights of its members' musical works to venues, broadc ...
songwriting awards.
Acting
In 2020, Beyincé was cast by casting director Kim Coleman (''
Blackkklansman
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'', ''
Lovecraft Country'', ''
Snowfall
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'') for an appearance on the ''
OWN'' primetime
Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry (born Emmitt Perry Jr., September 13, 1969) is an American actor, filmmaker, and playwright. He is the creator and performer of Madea, Mabel "Madea" Simmons, a tough elderly woman, and also portrays her brother Joe Simmons and her ...
soap opera ''
If Loving You Is Wrong''.
Later that year, Beyincé was cast as hair salon assistant Pamela "Pam" Malbrough, a recurring (and, in later seasons, regular) character, in the Perry-created
BET
Black Entertainment Television (BET) is an American basic cable channel targeting Black American audiences. It is the flagship channel of the BET Media Group, a subsidiary of Paramount Global's CBS Entertainment Group. Originally launched ...
comedy drama series ''
Sistas''. She also serves as a consultant producer for the show.
Songwriting credits
Credits are courtesy of
Discogs
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,
Tidal,
Spotify
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, and
AllMusic
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.
Unreleased songs
Credits are courtesy of
ASCAP
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and
Genius
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.
* "Best Of Me" – Angela Beyincé,
Shane Pittman, Maria Ann Abraham
* "Endless" – Angela Beyincé, Elizabeth Margaret McAvoy,
Shane Stevens
* "Fascination" – Angela Beyincé,
Amanda Ghost
Amanda Louisa Gosein-Cameron (born 10 July 1974), known professionally as Amanda Ghost, is a British entertainment executive, songwriter and singer. She was the president of Epic Records from 2009 until 2010. Ghost is a three-time Ivor Novello A ...
,
Ian Dench
Ian Alec Harvey Dench (born 7 August 1964) is an English songwriter and musician. He is the guitarist and principal songwriter for EMF, who scored a major international hit reaching number 1 in the United States with " Unbelievable" in 1991. I ...
,
Jack Splash
* "Hello Beautiful" – Angela Beyincé,
Autumn Rowe
Autumn Rowe (born May 25, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter, TV personality, DJ and activist from South Bronx, New York, United States. In 2010, she helped write the song "Happiness" by Alexis Jordan, with producers Stargate and Deadmau5, w ...
,
Erika Nuri,
Markus Alandrus Randle
* "Hot Chocolate" – Angela Beyincé,
Shane Pittman, Ruslan Odnoralov
* "I Found Me" – Angela Beyincé,
Shane Pittman, James Slater
* "I'll Be Loving You" – Angela Beyincé,
Shane Pittman,
Charles Harmon
* "I Wanna Feel Love" – Angela Beyincé,
Shane Pittman, Alexander Palmer
* "New Religion" – Angela Beyincé, Gigi Rowe,
JC Chasez
Joshua Scott "JC" Chasez (; born August 8, 1976) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, dancer, and record producer. He started his career as a singer, actor, and dancer on '' The All-New Mickey Mouse Club'' before rising to prominence as a ...
, Jacob Andrew
* "Rainbow" – Angela Beyincé,
Shane Pittman, James Slater
* "Something Beautiful" – Angela Beyincé,
Shane Pittman, RYKEYZ
* "Stand Strong For You" – Angela Beyincé,
Shane Pittman, James Slater
* "Throwback" – Angela Beyincé,
Autumn Rowe
Autumn Rowe (born May 25, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter, TV personality, DJ and activist from South Bronx, New York, United States. In 2010, she helped write the song "Happiness" by Alexis Jordan, with producers Stargate and Deadmau5, w ...
,
Shane Stevens, Hitesh Coen,
Kim Ofstad
* "Win Or Lose" – Angela Beyincé, Gabriella Laura Caspi, Alissa Hayden Moreno
Filmography
Television
Film
Awards and nominations
Notes
References
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1976 births
Living people
American rhythm and blues singer-songwriters
African-American songwriters
African-American actresses
American people of Creole descent
Angela