“It’s an honor to join Warner/Chappell Music and to continue working with my friend Jon Platt,” said Beyoncé. “I trust his vision and admire his professionalism and I look forward to our partnership.”

“I’ve had the pleasure of working with Beyoncé for many years now and I am always inspired by her drive, her creative vision and the breadth of her talent as a songwriter, performer and artist” said Jon Platt, President, Creative – North America, Warner/Chappell Music “Not only has she become a global phenomenon, she has helped re-define what it means to be an entertainment icon. Everyone at Warner/Chappell is honored to have the opportunity to serve this ground-breaking superstar, as she continues to evolve, growing her incredible catalog of songs and producing some truly extraordinary new music.”

Beyoncé first rose to fame as the lead singer of Destiny’s Child, one of the best-selling girl groups of all time, with more than 50 million records sold worldwide. Since embarking on her solo career in 2002, she has sold more than 75 million solo records worldwide. Every solo album—Dangerously in Love (2003), B’Day (2006), I Am… Sasha Fierce (2008), and 4 (2011)— has reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200. In 2009, Billboard named her the Top Female Artist and Top Radio Songs Artist of the decade. In 2010, Beyoncé broke the record for most Grammy® awards received by a female artist in one night, taking home six. In 2011, she was the first solo female artist to headline the Pyramid stage at the Glastonbury Festival in over 20 years.

This year, she performed at the Super Bowl XLVII halftime show, a high energy twelve-minutes that drew a worldwide audience of over 108 million. Just this month she added her 17th win to her already impressive tally with the Grammy ® for Best Traditional R&B Performance for “Love On Top.”

She recently announced The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour, which kicks off in Europe on April 15 and arrives in North America on June 28. Her feature-length documentary film, Life Is But a Dream, which she directed and produced, premiered on HBO this month becoming the most watched documentary on HBO in the last ten years. She has starred in other feature films, including Dreamgirls (2006), which earned her two Golden Globe nominations, and Cadillac Records (2008), where she also served as executive producer.

As a businesswoman, Beyoncé is the owner and CEO of Parkwood Entertainment, an entertainment, production, management and brand marketing company. 

USA moves into Upfront Week for the first time with the biggest and most spectacular event yet with performances by Oscar and Grammy Award-winner Jennifer Hudson and world-renowned DJ and Grammy Award-winner Mark Ronson. The talent only presentation will feature the stars of USA at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in New York City on Thursday, May 17 at 3:30pm.

The most watched network in all of cable for 23 consecutive quarters, USA is the leader in original programming with a summer slate featuring some of the best returning scripted series and the highly anticipated debut of the event drama POLITICAL ANIMALS. With an unprecedented ten series on the schedule, including sophomore seasons of the critically acclaimed SUITS and NECESSARY ROUGHNESS, the network's strong stable of originals includes WHITE COLLAR, ROYAL PAINS, BURN NOTICE, COVERT AFFAIRS, FAIRLY LEGAL, IN PLAIN SIGHT, PSYCH and new series COMMON LAW. USA offers 52 weeks of spectacular live television with WWE MONDAY NIGHT RAW, and a broad portfolio of acquired series that will add MODERN FAMILY in 2013, which will serve as a powerful lead-in to the network's first foray into original comedy. In addition, this fall USA will make its move into the unscripted arena with the new reality series THE MOMENT.

The deep roster of talent to present and attend the network's biggest event includes: Sigourney Weaver, Matt Bomer, Gabriel Macht, Patrick J. Adams, Callie Thorne, Kurt Warner, Jeffrey Donovan, Mark Feuerstein, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, The Miz, Piper Perabo, James Roday, Sarah Shahi, Michael Ealy, Tim DeKay, Mehcad Brooks, Gabrielle Anwar, Dule Hill, Tiffani Thiessen, Chris Gorham, Reshma Shetty, Willie Garson, Bruce Campbell, Sharon Gless, Corbin Bernsen, Paulo Costanzo, Warren Kole,Ryan Johnson, Gina Torres, Meghan Markle, Coby Bell, Peter Gallagher, Sonya Walger, Jack McGee, Marc Blucas, Michael Trucco, Maggie Lawson, Rick Hoffman, Virginia Williams, Baron Vaughn, Marsha Thomason, Sharif Atkins, Kiersten Nelson, Scott Cohen, Timothy Omundson, among others.

Academy Award-winning actress and Grammy Award-winning recording artist Jennifer Hudson has made a worldwide impact on music and in film. She won an Academy Award for her role as Effie in the film "Dreamgirls," which also garnered her a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BAFTA and an NAACP Image Award. She went on to co-star in "Sex and the City" and "The Secret Life of Bees" for which she received an NAACP Image Award nomination. In 2008, her Arista Records debut album won a Grammy for Best R&B Album and three additional nominations, including Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals and Best R&B Song. The RIAA Gold Certified album entered Billboard's Top 200 at No. 2 and marked the biggest first week sales for an R&B female entry since 2004. Recently, Hudson released her second album, "I Remember Me," and her current single, "Think Like A Man," with Ne-Yo (featuring Rick Ross), from the upcoming film of the same title, is currently on the Billboard Top 40.

British born Mark Ronson is internationally renowned as one of the world's most sought after DJs and Grammy-Award winning producers, as well as a brilliantly successful solo artist and band leader. He is famed for his work on Amy Winehouse's 2006 "Back To Black" and worked on Adele's "19," Kaiser Chiefs' "Off with their Heads," Ghostface Killah's "More Fish" and Black Lips' "Arabia Mountain." He released his debut solo album "Here Comes the Fuzz" in 2003 and his second in 2007, "Version," which went double platinum. Mark Ronson & The Business Intl (the alias he formed with his band) arrived in 2010 with their critically acclaimed debut, "Record Collection." He earned three Grammys in 2008 as Producer of the Year, Record of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album. Ronson composed the music for the Royal Ballet at The Royal Opera House with Andrew Wyatt and has an integral role in the Grammy-endorsed Re:Generation project, released this month. Recently, he has been in the studio producing Rufus Wainwright's forthcoming album "Out of The Game," due in the spring, as well as Bruno Mars' upcoming album, and has been enlisted to create an anthem for the London 2012 Olympic Games for Coca Cola.

Lauded for her work as a fashion designer and stylist, businesswoman and philanthropist, the Texas native told her story in an interview with journalist Joy Sewing of the Houston Chronicle. The enthusiastic crowd, including her lifelong friends and family members; three brothers, one sister, her niece and nephew and daughter, Beyonce, listened as Miss Tina (as she is affectionately known) told her story about growing up in Galveston, Texas, the youngest of seven children and recounted early lessons she learnt from her parents, particularly her seamstress mother, the late Agnez Dereon Beyonce, that would set her on her path. She also talked about her deep bond with her two daughters, Beyonce and Solange, and what it was like designing for and travelling with Destiny's Child.

Tina Knowles started making clothes in the early days for Destiny's Child because of small budgets and denial from major fashion houses to loan clothes to the still-budding group that would go on to become one of the most successful recording groups of all time.

Today she is the founder and creative director of three successful fashion collections, House of Dereon, the contemporary line which launched internationally at Selfridges & Co. in London last month, Dereon, the casual lifestyle brand and Miss Tina byTina Knowles, which is sold exclusively at Walmart.

Seven Tina Knowles' designs, all worn famously by Beyonce including the dress she wore to the 2009 Oscars and one she wore to the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, were on display at the entrance of the University of Houston's MD Anderson Library.

Throughout the interview, Miss Tina credited her beloved mother for her foundation and said she still marvels at her own success. She reminded the audience that rewards come with hard work and that no job is ever too small for her to do.

A major part of the oral history was about giving back and her dedication to making a difference in the lives of others. She talked about the Survivor foundation and its partnership with St. John's Church, The Knowles-Rowland Center for Youth and the Knowles-Temenos Place Apartments, all with a focus to bring aid to Houston's needy and displaced citizens.  

Asked what she wants her legacy to be Miss Tina answered through tears simply, "that I was a good person."  

Deeply connected to her faith she said her message to her mom would be that her prayers were answered.

About The Living Archives:

The Living Archives Interviews are the oral history arm of the UH Shuart Women's Archive and Research Collection. The Archive, founded in 1996 by the Friends of Women's Studies, and housed in University Archives in the MD Anderson Library, collects the papers and oral histories of Houston area women's organizations and of women who've made history here.  

The archive currently contains more than 50 collections documenting all aspects of women's lives in our community, including the papers of both of Houston's women mayors, Kathy Whitmire and Annise Parker, and suffragist Minnie Fisher Cunningham, as well as those of organizations like the Houston Area Women's Center, Hispanic Women in Leadership, the Top Ladies of Distinction, Houston NOW, Church Women United, Federation of Houston Professional Women, the Houston Women's Caucus for Art, and many more. 

Over the past 15+ years, both mayors have been the subject of Living Archives interviews, along with leaders like Dr. Ruth Simmons, Houston native and president of Brown University, and former Harris County Commissioner Sylvia Garcia, representatives from Houston's many faith traditions, women sports figures, doctors, activists, novelists, astronauts, journalists, and women from many other life paths.   These interviews are videotaped and transcribed, and become part of the archive, where they are accessible to students, scholars and the community.

About Tina Knowles:

Designer Tina Knowles is the creative director and founder of the House of Dereon, Dereon, and Miss Tina by Tina Knowles fashion collections produced by Beyond Productions, which was founded in 2004 and is now a division of LF USA – a subsidiary of Li & Fung Limited. A native Texan, Tina began her career owning and operating one of the most successful beauty salons in the southwest. She is also an accomplished writer with the debut of her first book, Destiny's Style, published by HarperCollins in 2002.  Experienced in nearly every aspect of what has come to be known as 'the lifestyle industry,' Tina is a renown fashion stylist, interior designer and has served as fashion consultant and costume designer on various film projects that include The Pink Panther, Austin Powers Goldmember, Dreamgirls, a, Cadillac Records, and box office hit Obsessed released in April 2009. She is the recipient of ACE Award from the Accessories Council of America for Excellence in Accessory Design, the VH1/Vogue Fashion Award for Best Costumes, and the Golden Hanger Award – E! Entertainment for Best Fashion. Her philanthropic endeavors include "The Knowles-Rowland Center for Youth located in Houston, Texas, theHouse of Dereon Media Center, The Survivor Foundation and Knowles -Temenos Place Apartments as community resource assisting those displaced and in need. 

SOURCE Beyond Productions

The 30-year-old, who rose to fame during 2004's American Idol, was on the Weight Watchers diet programme, and she plans to open the centre to help others using their diet plan.

The actress opened the Jennifer Hudson Weight Watchers Centre in her hometown of Chicago.

Weight Watchers have said that they will donate a portion of the centre's income to a foundation in honour of Hudson's late nephew, Julian King, who was killed in 2008. Her mother and brother were also killed. 

The actress, who won her Oscar for her role in Dreamgirls, recently told People Magazine that she is delighted that she gone down in her dress size:

"I'm prouder of my weight loss than my Oscar!" 

Check out Jennifer Hudson's video for 'No One Gonna Love You' and her interview on The Graham Norton Show:

Speaking to Alan Titchmarsh yesterday, May 10, the 'And I Am Telling You' vocal powerhouse revealed initially she was glad that she could let others carry the spotlight, but when the attention began turning to her she was ready because of her experience on American Idol:

"I was in a film with Beyoncé, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Foxx - I was like, 'I can hide behind these people, nobody's paying attention to little old me back here.'"

"Then once we finished the film and started getting the buzz and everyone started talking about Jennifer, I'm like 'Oh my God, everyone's looking at me, the pressure'"

She added that participating in the popular talent contest gave her a different outlook on being centre of attention and allowed her to embrace the buzz surrounding her from the movie:

"I felt like I learned (a) lesson from Idol where I let different things intimidate me from being on the show, so I knew by the time I got to my second chance, which was Dreamgirls, I was like, 'I'm not letting anyone interrupt my thing or discourage me.'"

Watch her performance of 'I Remember Me' from the show, here:

The star, who is the face of Weight Watchers and has just portrayed Nelson Mandela's wife in the new movie 'Winnie', reveals that she has been offered more roles since shedding the pounds:

"But in this slim world I do now realise I was being discriminated against. I'm offered more parts. There is much more excitement about me now."

Refreshingly, the 'Where You At' hitmaker also admits she never suffered self-esteem issues and was always happy with herself, and told Grazia magazine:

"I never thought I was overweight. I thought my old look was pretty normal. That was how all the girls looked growing up in Chicago. I didn't have any problem with it. It makes me smile to think back to myself when I did 'Dreamgirls' with Beyoncé. I did see all these women in Hollywood, all very slim and I thought, 'Wow, these ladies are very into themselves.' I loved that I stood out in a room. You knew when you saw this woman it was Jennifer Hudson."

Watch her interview on The View from last month below:

Back in 2006, the 'Where You At' star won a BAFTA for her performance in the movie 'Dreamgirls', but explained to Norton that she never received the award as it "got lost in transition of coming over to the States!". 

During a little BAFTAs reenactment skit, Norton presented her with the much longed for trophy and she couldn't contain her excitement, exclaiming:

"My BAFTA? Are you serious?"

"You're gonna make me cry! I have to kiss it! No really, is it my BAFTA?!"

Watch the heartwarming clip in full, below:

Adeleye’s performance of ‘Zoom’ on Saturday evening did not sit well with audiences and saw the over-28 entry slip into the bottom two alongside Treyc Cohen.

Cohen successfully belted-it-out for survival on a rendition of the 'Dreamgirls' Broadway musical hit ‘One Night Only’ while Adeleye was underwhelming with a slightly tuneless version of Kelly Clarkson’s ‘Because of You’.

Despite the setback, Adeleye vowed to return to music saying: “I’m going to just come away from this and go back to music. I’m going to go into a room and put some music down and I’m going to come out and tear it up. John A has left the building.”

Watch Adeleye singing for survival below: