Member Since: 4/17/2011
Posts: 9,162
|
Quote:
Beyoncé was raised in Houston, but her mother, Tina Knowles, and maternal grandmother, Agnéz Deréon, were both born in New Iberia, said cousin Willie Mae Broussard. Deréon was married to Abbeville native Lumis Biyince, after whom the singer’s first name was inspired. Deréon was a seamstress and served as the inspiration for Beyonce and Tina Knowles’ fashion line, “House of Deréon.”
Broussard, whose father was first cousins with Tina Knowles, remembered meeting Beyoncé for the first time at a family reunion in 1992. She said she has fond memories of visiting with Tina Knowles at New Iberia’s Holiday Inn. Beyoncé was 11 years old at the time, but when she performed for the family, Broussard said she could see a star in the making.
“I knew she had talent,” said Broussard. “I knew she was going somewhere in life.”
Broussard said she next saw Beyoncé at the family’s 1998 reunion when Destiny’s Child, the singing trio of Beyonce, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams, performed their first single.
Broussard said she thinks her son Kennedy Broussard and daughter Cheryl Broussard were the last local family who may have met with Beyoncé. The two briefly met the superstar during a meet and greet before a San Antonio concert in 2007.
“It was great,” said Cheryl Broussard of the meeting. “We gave her a gift set of the reunion and pictures and everything. She remembered it. She appreciated it. She loved it.”
Beyoncé thanked “family” in the audience while on stage that night, Cheryl Broussard said. She added that Beyoncé can’t attend reunions because of her demanding schedule, but that she sends personal memorabilia whenever the occasions do occur.
|
She is a descendant of Josseph Broussard, the man who helped settle Louisiana.
Quote:
|
As a descendant of Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil, Blue Ivy has seriously proud Cajun roots. Described as the "Che Guevara, Thomas Jefferson and Moses" of the Acadian people, he was imprisoned and later exiled as a result of his efforts against the British, eventually leading a group of French-speaking Catholics from present-day Canada to Louisiana in 1765. It is largely from this initial group of migrants that the Cajun culture developed.
|
|
|
|
|
At that picture in the middle of the family tree
