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The reason the career of this sometime A list singer faltered as a solo artist is not because of some crazy reason the former manager thought of out of the blue, it is because he did no PR at all for any of her records because he got way more money from the family member, and the family member didn’t want him working too hard for the other singer.

Kelly Rowland

Matthew Knowles

Beyonce

Crazy reason: Mathew Knowles Says Beyoncé’s Career Benefited and Kelly Rowland’s Suffered from Skin Tone Bias

Mathew Knowles, the father and former manager of Beyoncé, is speaking out about “colorism” within the music community — claiming that his daughter’s lighter skin tone contributed to her success, and that her Destiny’s Child bandmate Kelly Rowland suffered due to her darker complexion.

“Programmers, especially at pop radio, have this imagery of what beauty looks like,” Knowles added. “If you look back even at Whitney Houston, if you look at those photos, how they lightened her to make her look [like she had a] lighter-complexioned. Because there’s a perception and a colorism: the lighter that you are, the smarter and more economically (advantaged) — there’s a perception all around the world about color. Even with black folks, there’s a perception.” – Source


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