Beyoncé wanted to promote black culture
- 6 years ago
Beyoncé wanted to do what was "best for the world" with her Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival performance.
The 'Formation' singer pulled out all the stops for a spectacular show at the annual event last weekend, but her mother Tina Knowles-Lawson admitted she was "afraid" about the way her daughter had decided to honour black culture and historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) in her set as she worried the Californian festival's "predominantly white" audience wouldn't understand.
She wrote on Instagram: "I told Beyoncé that I was afraid that the predominately white audience at Coachella would be confused by all of the black culture and Black college culture because it was something that they might not get.”
And the 36-year-old singer told her mother she wanted her performance to encourage young people to go out and research and better understand her cultural referencing from the show.
The 'Formation' singer pulled out all the stops for a spectacular show at the annual event last weekend, but her mother Tina Knowles-Lawson admitted she was "afraid" about the way her daughter had decided to honour black culture and historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) in her set as she worried the Californian festival's "predominantly white" audience wouldn't understand.
She wrote on Instagram: "I told Beyoncé that I was afraid that the predominately white audience at Coachella would be confused by all of the black culture and Black college culture because it was something that they might not get.”
And the 36-year-old singer told her mother she wanted her performance to encourage young people to go out and research and better understand her cultural referencing from the show.