"Beyonce' Mama", Tina Knowles' 60th Birthday Bash in New Orleans
Solange Knowles (left),
Tina Knowles, and Beyonce pose together at Tina's 60th birthday party in New Orleans.
Sixty never looked so fierce! Sasha Fierce, that is. Beyonce's fashion designer mother, Tina
Knowles, rang in her 60th birthday on Jan. 11 in a celeb-filled New Orleans
masquerade ball. Beyonce, 32, documented the House of Deréon owner's
massive ball, which she threw with her sister Solange Knowles, 27, at Muriel's Jackson
Square Restaurant. Beyonce dances with her
nephew Daniel Julez as Jay Z look on at Tina Knowles 60th birthday party.Beyonce's hubby of almost six years, Jay Z, also attended the affair, as did Kardashian momager Kris Jenner, former Destiny's Child bandmate Kelly Rowland, and Beyonce's Dreamgirls costar Jennifer Hudson. The night was filled with dancing, a live band, and an enormous nine-tier golden cake topped with a feathered masquerade mask. Tina rocked a gold and black skin-tight gown, showing just how good 60 can look. Beyonce wore a champagne-colored Naeem Khan gown that showed off plenty of cleavage, and sister Solange wore a bright yellow strapless gown with a rainbow-colored mask.
Not pictured was Beyonce's 2-year-old daughter Blue Ivy, but the festivities were presumably too late for the little one. Instead, the "XO" singer danced with her 9-year-old nephew Daniel Julez -- Solange's son with ex-husband Daniel Smith. Tina Knowles filed for divorce from Beyonce's former manager and father Mathew Knowles in 2009 after he had an affair with actress Alexsandra Wright. Beyonce also became independent from her father's management, which she discussed in-depth in her recent HBO documentary Life Is But a Dream. Days after celebrating her baby girl's second birthday, Beyonce shared a picture of Blue Ivy Carter's new rides -- a Cadillac and Ferrari! Beyonce, 32, and Jay Z, 44, marked Blue's birthday with a blow-out bash at Jungle Island, an interactive wildlife park and botanical garden in Miami, Fla. on Jan. 7. The party included Beyonce's Destiny's Child pals Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams, the ladies sporting painted faces of butterflies and flowers.