In My Head with Heather Thomson podcast: ‘A lot of people don’t know that Beyoncé is my last name. It’s my maiden name.‘My name was Celestine Beyoncé, which at that time was not a cool thing to have that weird name.
I wanted my name to be Linda Smith because those were the cool names.’Things could have been so different for the Lemonade star if she had ended up with one of those monikers…Tina also explained that only some people in her family have the last name of Beyoncé, and due to clerical errors her brother and his children have the surname Beyincé instead.She explained: ‘It’s interesting — and it shows you the times — because we asked my mother when I was grown.
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