Beyoncé's rise to billionaire - Good Bad Billionaire podcast, BBC World Service
8:42Yeah. Four years earlier, Beyonce had met an A&R, that's artists and repertoire, they're the kind of people responsible for finding talent, called Teresa LaBarbera Whites.8:51Teresa was keen on her, but couldn't convince her label to sign the act. Fast forward to 1996. Beyonce is now 14.16:44And so this decision was part one in Beyonce becoming an 'independent woman'.








