Location: Gulf Coast

Houston native Robert Earl Keen grew up in Sharpstown listening to Willie Nelson and Cream, planting the seeds of his legendary Texas songwriting career.

Named by Beyoncé as a Houston favorite in Essence magazine, The Breakfast Klub has served legendary Wings & Waffles and Katfish & Grits in Midtown since 2001.

A Third Ward institution since 1969, Frenchy's Chicken is Beyoncé's childhood comfort food — namechecked in "I Been On" and featured in her Renaissance documentary.

In the early 1960s, Guy Clark arrived in Houston and found a folk music scene where he met Townes Van Zandt, Mickey Newbury, and Jerry Jeff Walker — and where Texas singer-songwriting was born.

Guy Clark grew up in Rockport, Texas, on the Gulf Coast, where his father practiced law and a guitar-playing law partner sparked a lifelong obsession with music.

Beyoncé and Kelly Rowland attended Alief Elsik High School in southwest Houston, where two future superstars rehearsed while Destiny's Child became itself.

Beyoncé trained at Kinder HSPVA in downtown Houston, where her natural gifts were shaped into the technical precision of a world-class performer.

Beyoncé sang her first solo at St. John's United Methodist in Houston — the Third Ward congregation where her gospel roots first took hold.

At nine, Beyoncé won a Houston talent show at Parker Elementary — beating teenagers by singing John Lennon's Imagine. The music magnet built her foundation.

A dance teacher began humming a song — and seven-year-old Beyoncé completed it. St. Mary's Montessori in Houston is where her voice was first discovered.

Beyoncé grew up in Houston's Third Ward — the Tre that shaped her voice, her identity, and her nickname Third Ward Trill. This is where it all started.