Complex sentence: Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Beyoncé performed in various singing and dancing competitions as a child and rose to fame in the late 1990s as lead singer of R&B girl-group Destiny's Child.
Split into simpler sentences: Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Beyoncé performed in various singing and dancing competitions as a child. She rose to fame in the late-1990s as lead singer of the R&B girl-group Destiny's Child.