Beyoncé announces 'Renaissance', new album six years later

A new assault for the crown of pop begins.

While Rihanna's new album is expected to arrive at the end of the year, Beyoncé has already announced her next album,

(renaissance, in French)

It will be published in different acts, and the first is dated for July 29.

It will be composed of 16 songs inspired and composed since 2020.

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"With all the isolation and injustice of the last year, I think we're all ready to escape, travel, love and laugh again," he said in an interview with

in August 2021. "I feel like there's a renaissance coming, and I want to be a part of fueling that escape in any way possible.

I've been in the studio for a year and a half."

His new work comes six years after his last solo album.

At that time, she released

, which was nominated for best album of the year at the Grammys and won the award for best contemporary urban music album.

In this new stage, the singer reaffirms herself as a reference in the fight of the black community against racism.

Since 2016, the 40-year-old diva has had time to enjoy different projects.

After two tours shared with her husband Jay-Z —an artist with whom she has been married since 2008 and with whom she has three daughters—, in 2018 they released a joint album,

The project was baptized as The Carters, a surname that the rapper gives to the family, and with which they were already called since their

(2013).

Beyoncé has also been linked to the world of cinema.

In 2019, the Texan was responsible for the soundtrack of

.

The singer composed and gave voice to several songs of the new version of the Disney classic.

Stars like Childish Gambino, Kendrick Lamar, Pharrel Williams or her own ten-year-old daughter, Blue Ivy, collaborate on it.

The minor is already listed in the Guiness Book of Records for being the youngest person to have a song on the best-selling list in the United States.

And last year, the artist was in charge of

a song from the soundtrack of

for which she won the Will Smith Oscar.