Teyana Taylor Reveals The Advice Beyoncé Gave To Her That She Applied To Her Career And The Music Business

Teyana Taylor is crediting Beyoncé for the sound advice that she applied to her business endeavors.

The Harlem, NY, native is a jack of all trades, with titles that include artist, actor, dancer, choreographer, model, creative director, and businesswoman.

As AFROTECH previously reported, she attended the Harlem School of Arts to study music, acting, and choreography. Her breakthrough in the entertainment

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industry occurred in 2007 after signing a record deal with Pharrell Williams’ Star Trak Entertainment. Working as the choreographer at age 15 for Beyoncé’s “Ring the Alarm” music video the year prior served as a career catalyst, according to a separate

AFROTECH article.

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Fast forward to 2025, Taylor acknowledged in an interview with Marie Claire that Beyoncé supported Taylor during the highs and lows of her career. Taylor retired from music in 2020, stating she felt “unappreciated” by her label, Def Jam, per People. She returned to the music industry five years later with the release of her fourth studio album, “Escape Room,” according to Billboard.

“No matter where I’ve ever been, whatever challenges I was going through, wherever I’ve been in my career, feeling stagnant or feeling unseen or unheard, to just hear Beyoncé tell me how proud of me she is, no matter where I am in my life and my career, really inspires me to keep going and just keep following my heart and following my gut,” Taylor told Marie Claire.

Taylor also revealed some advice that she received from Beyoncé: to self-invest.

“You’re never gonna fully get what you want unless you go and do it yourself,” the best-selling artist told Taylor, per Marie Claire. Taylor applies this advice to her shows. 

“I was kind of one of the only up-and-coming artists that was like: ‘I want a band, I want six dancers. I want, I want, I want.’ I wanted the world. I wanted everything with a bubblegum and shoestring budget. And I realized that I would walk away with less money because I was paying more people,” Taylor told Marie Claire.

With the advice from Beyoncé, Taylor admitted, “I was okay with that.”

“Of course it hurts in the moment because it’s like, ‘Oh my god, I could be making so much more money.’ But then [I’d talk] to Bey, and she just gives you that reassurance of like, ‘Oh no, that’s normal. That just means you’re a true creative. Spend the money. Do what you gotta do to get what you want.’ What that did was build up my credibility in that space. When people ask Teyana for a show, they know what they’re in for,” she shared with the outlet.

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