Long-lost footage of 10-year-old Beyonce performing on stage to be sold for up to £2.9MILLION at auction
TWO-and-a-half hour's worth of footage of baby Bey performing in kid group Girls Tyme is being sold to the highest bidder
A UK-BASED auction house is selling extremely rare footage of Beyonce to the highest bidder - and looks set to nab upto £2.9million.
Ted Owen & Co have acquired two-and-a-half hours worth of performance footage of a singing and dancing in her first ever girl group, Girls Tyme.
The archive is said to be so rare that it was considered lost forever - after being shot around 1992 when Bey was still finding her feet as a performer.
Offers are now being accepted by the auction house in a closed bidding war, and they are expecting by the end of bidding in January that the collection could go from anywhere between £1.5million and £3million.
A preview video uploaded to tease the material available to the highest bidder claims the videos are "a candid view of Beyonce as she develops her craft that would ultimately make her the most famous pop star in the world."
In the montage of clips, Beyonce can be seen performing with her three friends, Kelly Rowland, LaTavia Roberson and Le Toya Luckett.
The four would grow up and go on to find fame as 90s smash-hit girl group, Destiny's Child.
Bidding for the material closes on January 10.
Meanwhile, the now 35-year-old megastar secured herself in music history after becoming the most nominated female artist in the history of the Grammy Awards.
Thanks to the success of her concept album Lemonade, which came with its own full-length feature, she has landed nine nominations at next year’s prestigious ceremony, bringing her total career tally to a staggering SIXTY-TWO.
Queen Bey already has twenty Grammys to her name, and this year makes another milestone as she becomes the first artist to earn nominations in the pop, rock, R&B and rap categories.
She goes up against Adele and David Bowie with the most nominations at the prestigious ceremony on February 12.
The star also sparked rumours of reuniting with Destiny's Child back in early November after Kelly Rowland posted a video her, Beyonce and Michelle Williams, who replaced LaTavia and LeToya by the end of the band's run, doing the mannequin challenge on Instagram.
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