{"id":171996,"date":"2025-06-02T08:02:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T08:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/02\/mathew-knowles-established-boundaries-to-protect-beyonce\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T08:02:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T08:02:17","slug":"mathew-knowles-established-boundaries-to-protect-beyonce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/02\/mathew-knowles-established-boundaries-to-protect-beyonce\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathew Knowles established &#8216;boundaries&#8217; to protect Beyonce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-06-02\" datetime=\"1748851337\" pubdate=\"\">2 June 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Mathew Knowles established &#8220;boundaries&#8221; and created a &#8220;stable environment&#8221; to protect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/beyonce\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,beyonce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyonce<\/a> after she shot to fame as a teenager.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Mathew Knowles says he protected Beyonce when she was at the start of her career<\/p>\n<p>Knowles managed his daughter&#8217;s girl group Destiny&#8217;s Child and helped her navigate her solo career before stepping down as her manager in 2011 &#8211; and he feels proud to have &#8220;built the roadmap&#8221; for his daughter&#8217;s enormous success.<\/p>\n<p>However, he is adamant it was not easy for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/beyonce\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,beyonce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyonce<\/a> to have become so famous at such a young age &#8211; scoring her first number one single in the US with Destiny&#8217;s Child&#8217;s &#8216;No, No, No&#8217; when she was 16 &#8211; and he did all he could to keep her life &#8220;stable&#8221;. He told The Sunday Times newspaper: &#8220;It\u2019s about how you deal with it. It can be difficult when you\u2019re young and all of a sudden you have millions of dollars and everybody loves you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had all sorts of boundaries \u2026 Having a stable environment around you becomes important with fame.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on his work with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/beyonce\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,beyonce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyonce<\/a> over the years, Knowles admits there are plenty of things he would have done differently with hindsight.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe explained: &#8220;There\u2019s a lot of things that I would do differently, I would have suggested different songs, made differences in some of the tours that we did \u2026 We\u2019ll leave it at that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nDespite severing their professional partnership years ago, Mathew believes he is still the world&#8217;s best music manager and feels proud of all his achievements working with the pop superstar during her rise to the top of the music industry.<\/p>\n<p>\nMathew said: &#8220;I\u2019m very grateful to have been the best manager in the history of music. I don\u2019t get that compliment enough &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;After 21 years of managing Beyonce, I smile because even now music magazines talk about her top 20 songs, 70 per cent of which are from her first four albums, which are the ones I was a part of.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;To know that I was a part of that, that I \u2026 let her understand the importance of brand development, and that 30-40 per cent of her team are people I hired 30 years ago \u2026 It makes me feel proud and grateful that I built the road map for Beyonce\u2019s success. 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