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The first was that she was no longer being managed by her father, who had held the position since day one. When Beyoncé returned to the real world in early 2011, it was with a pair of important announcements. The proposed solution was a work hiatus, if only one in the Beyoncé sense of the word: she was back in the studio by May 2010, but otherwise spent that year travelling the world, touring cities that she’d only ever seen from the inside of hotel rooms watching movies, especially documentaries and attending at least one Rage Against the Machine concert. The 28-year-old hadn’t taken more than a couple of months off since her early teens, when her summer holidays were replaced by the “boot camps” that her father Mathew Knowles famously instituted to ready the future members of Destiny’s Child – then called Girls Tyme – for stardom. And my mother was the person that preached to me, and almost harassed me every day … ‘You really need to live your life and open your eyes, and you don’t want to wake up with no memories.’” “After I finished the last tour, I was a bit overwhelmed and overworked. If she regretted it, it didn’t show.Ī year later, in the documentary short Year of 4, she explained her decision. A few months earlier, she had cancelled two subsequent dates without explanation. It was the final stop on her I Am … World Tour. I n February 2010, Beyoncé performed in Trinidad, insisted on making an appearance at one of the hottest clubs in Port of Spain (much to the obvious dismay of her bodyguards), and flew home.