Beyoncé helps fans with onstage gender reveal during ‘Cowboy Carter’ tour

Imagine being able to tell people one day that Beyoncé helped your parents with your gender reveal.

A very lucky (future) Beyhive member can do just that after the Grammy winner ended the May 28 stop of her Cowboy Carter tour with a super-sweet moment onstage.

Early in the fourth show at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., Beyoncé is seen reading a fan’s sign. The sign explained that the couple’s firstborn is named Carter and asked the singer to help with the gender reveal of their second child.

“I’ll be back. I’m going to do it later,” Beyoncé said into her microphone before exiting the stage in a fan-shared video.

And the singer proved she’s true to her word towards the end of the night. Wrapping up her performance, Beyoncé circled back to the couple and kneeled on the stage to take the folded-up sign from them, which revealed the answer inside.

“I had to come back to you. I didn’t want to rush this, because this is important,” the mom of three told the couple in a fan video shared on Tina Knowles’ Instagram page. “A once-in-a-lifetime gender reveal. I had to take my time.”

Although she initially struggled to open the package — an endeavor made difficult by the night’s unrelenting rain and her elbow-length gloves — the “Daddy Lessons” singer soon flashed the couple a warm smile as she held up the piece of paper that read “COWBOY.”

“It’s a boy,” she confirmed to the cheering crowd. “God bless you. Congratulations! Thank you so much for letting me be a part of it.”

“I’m keeping this,” she jokingly added, holding up the torn package.

In her post’s caption, Knowles teased her daughter for pausing the concert for the gender reveal in the rain. “I was like girl you gonna get sick,” the 71-year-old Matriarch author wrote.

But it isn’t the only time Beyoncé has been an impromptu assistant for a gender reveal. She did the same during a July 2023 stop at the RheinEnergieStadion in Cologne, Germany, on her Renaissance World Tour.

That time around, the “Cozy” singer simply said “girl” into the microphone, in a tone referencing her 2011 hit single “Run the World (Girls).” She then gave her well wishes to the soon-to-be parents as the crowd cheered.

“Congratulations! Congratulations, beautiful!” she said. “God bless you!”

Babies have been a big element of the tour since the award-winning pop icon kicked off her highly anticipated tour in April.

Beyoncé’s own (not-so-little) daughters Blue Ivy, 13, and Rumi, 7, have been sharing the spotlight on stage with their mom since the tour’s opening, which marks the latter’s tour debut. This is Blue’s second run on tour with a mother, with the teen previously dancing on stage with her mom during the Renaissance album tour throughout 2023.

Beyoncé shares Blue Ivy and twins Rumi and Sir with her husband, rapper Jay-Z, whom she married in 2008.

Knowles, ever the proud grandma, recently opened up to TV host Gayle King about sharing a moment on stage with her daughter and granddaughters during a recent stop on her Matriarch book tour.

“I got to be on there with [Beyoncé] and Blue and Rumi, and that made it so special,” she said, adding, “It was from a different perspective — I’m usually behind the stage — but it was actually fun. It was exciting.”

As for her granddaughter, Knowles told King that she asked the 7-year-old once how she feels being on stage with thousands of people waving and clapping back at her.

“She said, ‘It feels powerful,'” Knowles shared with a laugh.