Destiny's Child

Destiny's Child is an R&B girl group from Houston, signed to Columbia and first
premiered on Men in Black: The Album with their song "Killing Time." Early in
1998, the group released their self-titled debut album, featuring the single "No,
No, No (Part II)" featuring Wyclef Jean. The quartet, including Beyoncé Knowles,
Kelly Rowland (Beyonce's cousin), LaTavia Roberson and LeToya Luckett, also
toured with Jean. The group's sophomore album The Writing's on the Wall followed
in 1999 and immediately spawned the number one smash "Bills, Bills, Bills," which
topped both the pop and R&B charts. By the end of the year, "Say My Name" had
duplicated the feat, and ended up becoming one of the biggest hits of 2000. But just
as the group had broken through to superstardom, Roberson and Luckett abruptly left
in March of 2000, filing a lawsuit against the group and manager Matthew Knowles
(Beyoncé's father and Kelly's guardian). The two were replaced by similar-looking 18-
year-old Farrah Franklin and 19-year-old Michelle Williams, who debuted in the video
for "Say My Name" (much to some fans' surprise). Five months after her addition,
Franklin announced that she too was leaving. Undaunted, the remaining trio recorded
the theme song for the film revival of Charlie's Angels; "Independent Women" became
another across-the-board smash that fall, topping the charts by the end of the year.
Roberson and Luckett dropped the portion of their lawsuit directed at the group itself in
early 2001; they soon formed a new group called Angel, while Farrah Franklin began
work on a solo album. Meanwhile, Destiny's Child released their third album, Survivor,
in May followed by a Chistmas album later that year.

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