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Beyoncé’s first microphone was a hairbrush with confidence settings on “legend.”

✗ FAKE
Beyoncé began performing as a child in Houston and rose to fame in Destiny's Child in the 1990s. Whether she used a hairbrush as a microphone is not documented, and the line is a joke.

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