A U.S. congressman commemorated the beginning of Girls’s Historical past Month on Wednesday (March 1) by paying tribute to Beyoncé on the ground of the Home of Representatives.
“Mr. Speaker, I rise immediately to commemorate the tip of Black Historical past Month and the start of Girls’s Historical past Month by honoring a person who represents each so properly. She’s an icon, she’s a legend, and she or he is now and eternally the second. I wanna have a good time none apart from who I consider is the undisputed queen of pop and R&B: Beyoncé Knowles Carter,” mentioned Rep. Robert Garcia, a freshman member of Congress from California.
He continued: “Now a couple of weeks in the past, this brown-skinned lady out of H-town received her thirty second Grammy, giving her probably the most Grammy wins of all time. However Beyoncé is a lot greater than a performer and a singer. She’s a creator and an artist.”
Rep. Garcia then went on to cite lyrics from the famous person’s 2013 observe “Yoncé” and cite his personal expertise seeing her carry out with Future’s Youngster for the primary time — a second he mentioned was “life-changing for me and the way in which I expertise music.”
“Beyoncé’s additionally a job mannequin for hundreds of thousands throughout the nation,” he concluded. “She’s stood up for voting rights, for feminism, for girls and women, for my group — the LGBTQ+ group. For my era and so many others, she merely is the best of all time. Her story is historical past.”
Final month, Queen Bey additionally took dwelling a number of honors on the 2023 NAACP Picture Awards, together with excellent feminine artist and excellent soul/R&B tune for “Cuff It.”
Watch Rep. Garcia’s passionate speech celebrating Beyoncé’s impression on historical past under.
