Beyoncé Brings Tina Knowles On Stage At ‘Cowboy Carter Tour’  

Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter Tour is a family affair, and she brought her mother, Tina Knowles, onstage.

While performing at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on Thursday, May 1, for the second stop of her worldwide tour, “Queen Bey” had three generations of her family represented.

After a performance of her song “Protector”, where she was accompanied onstage by her daughters Blue Ivy and Rumi, the crowd went wild when Knowles walked out. 

Beyoncé took time to laud her mother on the success of her newly released memoir, Matriarch.

“Today is a big day because my mother, who worked so hard on her book, she has the No. 1 book on the New York Times bestsellers,” Beyoncé said, as the audience joined her in singing  “Congratulations, Mama T.”

Beyoncé also took to Instagram to praise her mother for writing the memoir.

“The Mama T was that good?? Ha. You deserve it, I’m so proud!” Beyoncé wrote.

While the book is a runaway success, Knowles previously shared that she almost didn’t write it “because I thought [people] only want to know all my kids’ business. They’re not going to be interested in me.”

“I’ve lived this incredible life, and you really don’t realize it until you start writing everything down,” Knowles told PEOPLE.

Knowles also said the process of writing the book began more than 10 years ago for her “my great-grandchildren” and to  “leave that legacy for my kids.”

“I just started thinking about the fact that I never met my grandparents and the history that I gathered for my mom,” she explained. “I wish that I would have asked her more. I wish I would have investigated more.”

Knowles went on to say that the elders must share their stories to pass them down to the next generation.

“But I also want to encourage young people and older people to go and record their parents and get those stories,” she added.

Matriarch is currently available wherever books are sold.