Matriarch: Oprah's Book Club: A Memoir

by Tina Knowles

All of Destiny’s Child was in the car, racing over to Solange’s school to be on time for pickup. They had the radio on, of course, and were pulling up just as the DJ introduced a new song “from H-town’s own Destiny’s Child!” Columbia had released the song to urban radio to get buzz going for a November release. The girls started screaming—their first time on the radio. Kelly turned the radio up so everyone outside could hear the song, especially Solange, who came out of her school like she’d arranged the whole scene, picking her sisters’ single as her walkout song. They parked right there to get out and join Solange in dancing around the car. Doing the routine they’d practiced countless times, right there on a school day in Houston. They all called me at Headliners, each screaming, “Our song was on the radio!” all at once. I told Vernell, who told the whole salon. Before they hung up, Beyoncé said quietly into the phone, “Mama, it was on the radio.”