‘Beyoncé and Solange tell me off all the time’: Tina Knowles on raising superstars, surviving cancer and growing up under segregation

It’s been a decade since Tina Knowles started dictating her life story into her phone for her grandchildren and future great-grandchildren. Her grandchildren, born to Knowles’s superstar daughters, Beyoncé and Solange, are growing up in Los Angeles and New York with unimaginable wealth, but under unimaginable scrutiny. “I don’t have those hang-ups any more, I’m just living out loud.”View image in fullscreen Tina Knowles and her then husband Mathew in 2005. Solange cheered Knowles up with memes, laughing together at the TikToker Jools Lebron’s viral “very demure, very mindful” video. View image in fullscreen Tina Knowles in first grade, c1960.