Beyoncé, the US R&B star, has stunned her fans by dropping a new film that keeps tongues wagging, AFP reports.
The live album will go with an upcoming Netflix documentary she performed at Coachella last year.
The album entitled Homecoming like the film was released in the early hours of Wednesday across all major streaming platforms- Apple Music, Spotify and Google Play.
It recontextualizes the show in a way that claims the most influential live music event in North America for black culture.
Homecoming in its own way, fits with this definition: Beyoncé unveiled an unannounced, 40-track live album along with the documentary which she staged twice last year at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
Beyonce was the first black woman to headline the festival.
Her set paid tribute to the musical heritage of historically black American colleges and she was backed up by dozens of dancers and a marching band.
Beyonce first dropped an album without warning in 2013: the record “Beyonce” suddenly appeared in the iTunes music store with no advance notice.
The digital drop is only the beginning of pulling a Beyoncé, though. In 2018, with no prior proclamation, she and her husband Jay-Z released Everything Is Love, a nine-track joint record that arguably serves as the final album of the music trilogy that centres on the couple’s buzzy marriage (following 2016’s Lemonade and 2017’s “4:44”).
Born in Houston, Texas, Beyoncé Knowles first captured the public’s eye as lead vocalist of the R&B group Destiny’s Child. She later established a solo career with her debut album Dangerously in Love, becoming one of music’s top-selling artists with sold-out tours and a slew of awards.
