Inspired by the aspirations of Knowles's father Mathew, the album was titled after Hadley Street, a plot of land in downtown Houston: "My father took me there one day and told me he was going to build a studio," she said in an interview with the Daily Mail.
He was signed to Sanctuary by Destiny's Child manager Mathew Knowles who was just hired as the president of urban music at the primarily rock oriented label.
Solange Knowles | Mathew Knowles | Tony Knowles | Mathew Horne | Tony Knowles (snooker player) | Sonny Knowles | Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet | Patric Knowles | Michael Knowles | Mathew Carey | Mathew Brady | Mark Knowles | Harry Knowles | Christopher Knowles | Nick Knowles | Mathew Street | Mathew Staver | Mathew Hayman | Edward Knowles | Davy Knowles | Crazy in Love (Beyoncé Knowles song) | Arnold Mathew | William David Knowles | Warren P. Knowles | Tony Knowles (politician) | Tony Knowles Coastal Trail | Thomas Knowles | The beginning of Vulpius' St. Mathew Passion in Pori | Sydney Knowles | St. Mathew's Church |
She is perhaps best known, however, as the mother of singers Beyoncé Knowles and Solange Knowles, and is the ex-wife of Mathew Knowles, who managed Destiny's Child and then Beyoncé and Kelly Rowland until 2011.