
Solange, Tina Knowles. David Livingston/Getty Photos
Solange Knowles’ son, Daniel Julez, is all grown up — and celebrating his nineteenth birthday in type.
“Comfortable Birthday Julez! And completely happy Commencement! We love you and are so happy with you,” Solange’s mom, Tina Knowles, wrote by way of Instagram on Friday, October 20. “That is the music Comfortable Birthday whenever you get a bunch of singers collectively. The social gathering was Nice @solangeknowles you probably did that !!!❤️❤️❤️.”
Tina, 69, uploaded footage from her eldest grandson’s birthday bash, as company sang a rendition of “Comfortable Birthday.” Julez, wearing a black tee with a silver chain, then blew out the candles after the singing stopped.
“Love u child,” Tina added in her Instagram caption.
Solange, 37, gave beginning to her son — whom she shares with ex-husband Daniel Smith — in 2004. Solange welcomed Julez when she was 18, almost three years earlier than she and Smith divorced.
“It was one of the bittersweet moments of my life,” Solange, who’s the youthful sister of Beyoncé, informed Elle in a February 2017 profile of being a younger mother. “As a result of I used to be so in love with Julez, and having spent lots of time on the street, I yearned to be in a single place, to have the chance to essentially floor myself with him. However it was isolating and lonely, and so chilly and darkish. And it was simply Julez and me more often than not. It was exhausting to think about with the ability to progress in my profession in any manner.”
Julez additionally grew up near his cousins. Beyoncé, 42, shares daughter Blue Ivy, 11, and twins Sir and Rumi, 7, together with her husband, Jay-Z.
“[Blue] and Julez are going to develop up extra like sister and brother than cousins,” Solange beforehand quipped to New York Journal in 2012. “Blue comes over, I babysit [and Beyoncé] takes Julez typically for the weekend.”
Whereas hanging with Beyoncé — a record-breaking Grammy winner — might be daunting for some, it’s simply one other household reunion for Julez.
“If you already know me you already know I don’t converse on my household,” {the teenager} stated in a since-deleted August TikTok video. “I really feel like all people texts their aunt. [Beyoncé is] simply my auntie. Similar to how your auntie is simply your auntie.”
After Solange cut up from Julez’s father, Smith, she moved on with director Alan Ferguson. They wed in 2014 earlier than in the end breaking apart in 2019.