Beck's Father Reveals He Worked on One of Beyoncé's Albums

In a strange turn of events, it appears Beck’s father actually contributed to one of Beyoncé’s

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In a strange turn of events, it appears Beck‘s father actually contributed to one of Beyoncé‘s albums. The news was discovered within post on Reddit, where David Campbell (Beck’s father), was a music arranger, conductor, composer, who provided string arrangement and conducting for Beyoncé’s 2006 record “B’Day” which took home a Grammy for best contemporary R&B album that year. Sidenote: he’s been behind about 450 gold and platinum records. Kind of interesting given the fact this happened a few weeks ago, but Kanye has since apologized for his remarks. Leave comments below.

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