--- title: Jay Z Gets Festival Crowd to Sing Happy Birthday to Beyonce description: The superstar turned 36 on Monday. canonical: https://time.com/4926553/beyonce-jay-z-birthday-made-in-america/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-04T18:53:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T17:16:18.286Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Jay Z Got An Entire Music Festival Crowd to Sing Happy Birthday to Beyoncé og:description: She turned 36 on Monday og:url: https://time.com/4926553/beyonce-jay-z-birthday-made-in-america/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec3edad18c15252b/6988dc5322fb8557c0e22aba/gettyimages-635008260.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: gettyimages-635008260.jpg og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jay Z Got An Entire Music Festival Crowd to Sing Happy Birthday to Beyoncé twitter:description: She turned 36 on Monday twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec3edad18c15252b/6988dc5322fb8557c0e22aba/gettyimages-635008260.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jay Z Got An Entire Music Festival Crowd to Sing Happy Birthday to Beyoncé by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Sep 4, 2017 6:53 PM UTC  Hip Hop Artist Jay-Z and singer Beyonce during The 59th GRAMMY Awards at STAPLES Center on February 12, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. Hip Hop Artist Jay-Z and singer Beyonce during The 59th GRAMMY Awards at STAPLES Center on February 12, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.Christopher Polk by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Sep 4, 2017 6:53 PM UTC [Beyoncé](https://time.com/nextadvisor/calculators/mortgage-calculator/), who turned 36 on Monday, kicked off her birthday celebration early with a little help from her husband, Jay Z. The couple spent their Sunday night at the Made in America festival in Philadelphia, where [Jay Z](http://time.com/money/4841821/listen-jay-z-new-album-444-free-stream/) led the audience to sing “Happy Birthday” for Beyoncé during his set. “This is a special moment. Y’all ready?” he asked the crowd before counting them down. Beyoncé, who was in the audience with Destiny’s Child’s Michelle Williams, was seen dancing and grinning while people sang to her. The singer’s friends and family honored her on Monday in a [photo tribute](http://time.com/4926584/beyonce-birthday-michelle-obama-serena-williams/) that included Williams, Michelle Obama, Serena Williams, Tina Knowles and Kelly Rowland wearing one of [Beyoncé’s iconic looks](https://www.beyonce.com/bday2017/) from the “Formation” music video. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4926553/beyonce-jay-z-birthday-made-in-america/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4926553/beyonce-jay-z-birthday-made-in-america/"},"headline":"Jay Z Got An Entire Music Festival Crowd to Sing Happy Birthday to Beyoncé","datePublished":"2017-09-04T18:53:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T17:16:18.286Z","description":"She turned 36 on Monday","url":"https://time.com/4926553/beyonce-jay-z-birthday-made-in-america/","keywords":["Music","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec3edad18c15252b/6988dc5322fb8557c0e22aba/gettyimages-635008260.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec3edad18c15252b/6988dc5322fb8557c0e22aba/gettyimages-635008260.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"gettyimages-635008260.jpg","caption":"Hip Hop Artist Jay-Z and singer Beyonce during The 59th GRAMMY Awards at STAPLES Center on February 12, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.","creditText":"Christopher Polk","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/music/","name":"Music"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4926553/beyonce-jay-z-birthday-made-in-america/","name":"Jay Z Got An Entire Music Festival Crowd to Sing Happy Birthday to Beyoncé"}}]}] ```