Destiny's Child Receives Hollywood Walk of Fame Star

Despite the fact that Beyonce Knowles, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams are no longer together in Destiny's Child, their work together has been honored, as Destiny's Child garnered a spot on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Destiny's Child started out as a duo, changed into a quartet including LaTavia Roberson and LeToya Luckett, and eventually became a trio, with Knowles, Rowland and Williams being the most enduring and famous members of the group. After selling 50 million albums and singles, and having the World Music Awards name them the best-selling pop group ever, Destiny's Child announced on June 12th, 2005, after a show in Barcelona, Spain, that they would be breaking up. The trio was re-united for today's ceremony is Hollywood.

MSNBC quoted Beyonce Knowles as saying "We started when we were 9 years old, and here we are getting a Hollywood star." Beyonce went on to say "Dreams come true. So thank you all so much for supporting us."

The pouring rain could not dampen the girls' spirits. Kelly Rowland, one of the two original members along with Beyonce Knowles, said "I want to thank you all for coming out here in this rain. We are humbled to be here," according to Digital Spy. The Destiny's Child star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is the 2,035th star since the Walk of Fame was started on Feb 9th, 1960, with Joanna Woodward getting the first star. Destiny's Child's star comes right after Jude Judith Sheindlin (Judge Judy).

Destiny's Child released their first album, a self-titled offering, in February 1998, featuring the singles "No, No, No" parts 1 and 2. Their follow-up album, The Writing's On The Wall came out in July 1999 having the hugely popular singles "Say My Name", "Bug-a-boo" and "Bills, Bills, Bills". In May, 2001, the album Survivor came out, with three girls on the cover instead of four. It was between these two albums that LaTavia Roberson and LeToya Luckett had split from the band under stained circumstances, and Michelle Williams came into the band.

Survivor featured "Independent Woman, Part 1", which was the theme song for Charlie's Angels, spent 11 weeks at the #1 spot in America. Survivor also featured a title track, "Bootylicious" and "Nasty Girl". The other albums put out after this include a Christmas album and a Remix album.

As for solo careers, Michelle Williams starting singing gospel music, and has sold more than 500,000 albums on her own. Kelly Rowland released Simply Deep to critical acclaim. Singles like "Stole", "Can't Nobody" and "Dilemma", a collaboration with Nelly, added to the success of her album. Rowland also made her feature film debut in Freddy vs. Jason

As for Beyonce Knowles, she would start off by co-starring with Mekhi Phifer (8 Mile) in MTV's Carmen: A Hip Hopera. Afterwards, she would star next to Mike Myers in Austin Powers in Goldmember. Musically, she would put out Dangerously in Love, which would sell 8 million albums on the strength of singles like "Crazy in Love", "Baby Boy" and "Me, Myself and I".

Beyonce Knowles is currently co-starring in The Pink Panther with Steve Martin, and is filming Dreamgirls, a movie about a singing group loosely based on The Supremes, and has a cast including Jennifer Hudson, Jamie Foxx and Eddie Murphy, and is directed by Bill Condon.

[Additional Sources: World Music Awards, MSNBC, Digital Spy]