Tina Knowles Reveals How Rumi Convinced Beyoncé to Let Her Onstage

Rumi Carter is the latest of Beyoncé’s children to make a name for herself onstage. The 7-year-old has captured the Beyhive’s hearts ever since she joined her mother and sister, Blue Ivy, on the Cowboy Carter Tour.

In a new interview with ELLE U.K., Rumi’s grandmother Tina Knowles shared how she got permission to join the show. “Rumi, for the last tour, just every day, said, ‘I want to go out there. I want to,’” she explained. “She wanted to experience it, too. And so Beyoncé is allowing her to do it this time. And I’m really happy about it, because she has fun out there. She gets to be a kid, and when she gets offstage, she’s right back to being Rumi, the little kid, you know, the little 7-year-old, adorable.”

She also shared that her grandchildren “love the stage” because “they’ve grown up around it.” And that despite all of the media and fan attention on them, “their mother keeps their lives normal. And they are just normal kids.”

In a recent interview for ELLE.com, Ms. Tina spoke about Beyoncé’s decision to let Blue join the Renaissance World Tour back in 2023, which Beyoncé was initially apprehensive about.

“I encouraged it because my girls were allowed to express themselves creatively in any way they chose to,” Knowles said. “If they wanted to perform, then they got to perform. I tried to encourage everything that they wanted to do—every dream that they had. So my personal two cents was, ‘I hope you let her do it.’ Her mother, being protective of her, thought she was too young. She was like, ‘This is a heavy thing. It’s 70,000 people out there sometimes, so that’s a big deal for you to get in front of those people.’ And so her response came from a place of protection, and mine came from a place of, ‘Well, I would have let you do it.’ And I remember saying that. But it wasn’t my business, it was her mom’s business. I just kind of helped the conversation along a bit.”

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