In 1976, Knight made her acting debut as the lead in the film Pipe Dreams for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress. In the late 1980s, after losing $60,000 in one night at the baccarat table, she joined Gamblers Anonymous, which helped her quit the habit. She first foundfame by winning Ted Mack's The Original Amateur Hour TV show contest aged seven in 1952. A switch in 1964 to the Maxx label -- where they worked with producer Van McCoy -- generated minor hits with "Giving Up" and "Lovers Always Forgive." In 2012, she began a recurring role in the syndicated sitcom The First Family. In 2009, Knight was featured in Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All by Myself, the film version of a play he had dramatized, and performed her song "The Need To Be" from the 1974 album I Feel a Song. [41] In 1995, Knight married motivational speaker Les Brown,[42] but they separated and divorced in 1997. [32], In February 2019, she was revealed to be the Bee on The Masked Singer, in which she placed third. At select performances on the UK Farewell Tour recordings of the concerts were made available for sale on USB flash drives.[29]. She has a sister, Brenda, and one living brother, Merald Jr, and one late brother, David. In 1989, she recorded the theme tune for the James Bond movie Licence to Kill. The event was held at the Palace Theatre and was co-hosted by Carol Anne Riddell and Alan Kalter. In 1989 she recorded "Licence to Kill", the title track for James bond film of the same name, a Top 10 hit in the UK and Germany. She has a sister, Brenda, and one living brother, Merald Jr, and one late brother, David. [38], Knight married William McDowell in 2001. She first achieved minor fame by winning Ted Mack's The Original Amateur Hour TV show contest at the age of eight in 1952. Georgia Department of Revenue Special Investigations Chief Jeff Mitchell told the station that the investigation solely involved Hankerson and not Knight. [16] SUV has released a Grammy Award-winning CD titled One Voice, and occasionally performs at LDS church firesides. However, a number of the Buddah singles became hits in the UK long after their success in the US. At Brunswick, the group released two recordings that failed to chart. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Knight among the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.[6]. She was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and was the daughter of Merald Woodlow Knight Sr, a postal worker, and Sarah Elizabeth (née Woods). During this period, Knight kicked a gambling addiction to the game baccarat. Calling themselves the Pips, after their cousin James "Pips" Woods, the youngsters sang supper-club material from Monday through Saturday and gospel music on Sundays. By this time, the group, now credited as Gladys Knight & the Pips, had signed a long-term recording contract with Fury Records, where they issued a re-recording of "Every Beat of My Heart" that competed for sales with the original release. In the early '70s, Knight & the Pips slowly moved away from their original blues-influenced sound toward a more middle-of-the-road harmony blend. Langston George retired from the group in 1962, leaving the four-strong lineup that survived into the '80s. [44] He agreed, which resulted in the Grammy Award-winning Saints Unified Voices gospel music choir being formed. Family Business – Gladys Knight co-owner of restaurant in Atlanta. [citation needed], In 2018, she played Ella Grover, mother of Captain Lou Grover, in the "Lele pū nā manu like" ("Birds of a Feather...") episode of Hawaii Five-0, which first aired on November 16, 2018. After a successful 1988 tour, the Pips retired and Knight began her solo career. Three years elapsed before the Pips' next sessions, which produced a version of Johnny Otis' "Every Beat of My Heart" for the small Huntom label. [40] Knight spent over a million dollars looking for her son after he was kidnapped. She has won seven Grammy Awards (four as a solo artist and three with the Pips) and is an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Vocal Group Hall of Fame along with The Pips. 10am - 1pm, Slave To Love The couple had one son, Shanga Ali Hankerson, born on August 1, 1976. Newman became a drug addict, and left the family when Knight was 20. Knight has recorded two number-one Billboard Hot 100 singles ("Midnight Train to Georgia" and "That's What Friends Are For"), eleven number-one R&B singles, and six number-one R&B albums. In 1975, Knight starred in a variety show, The Gladys Knight and the Pips Show, which was canceled after four episodes. [50] In September 2020, on Instagram Live , Gladys appeared alongside Patti Labelle on the latest Verzuz battle produced by Swizz Beatz and Timbaland, Knight revealed that she is actually 77 years old and that she is one year older than 76 year old Patti Labelle. (The Pips, however, remained in Detroit). [43] She had occasionally teased LDS president, the late Gordon B. Hinckley, saying his flock needed to inject some "pep" into their music. Her children attended Gesu Catholic Grade School. In December 2010, Knight released the single "Settle". In April 2004, Knight performed during the VH1's benefit concert Divas Live 2004 alongside Ashanti, Cyndi Lauper, Jessica Simpson, Joss Stone, and Patti LaBelle, in support of the Save the Music Foundation. In 1966, Gladys Knight & the Pips signed to Motown Records' Soul subsidiary, where they were teamed up with producer/songwriter Norman Whitfield. [citation needed], In September 2011, a new, updated recording of Tom Jones' 1970 classic "I (Who Have Nothing)" was released on iTunes and Amazon. In 2017, Knight helped raise $400,000 for the Children's Learning Centers of Fairfield County. Shortly afterwards, the quintet agreed to form a group under the insistence of Gladys' mother Elizabeth Knight. That same year, Gladys, her brother Bubba, sister Brenda and their cousins Eleanor and William Guest began performing together during Bubba's tenth birthday party after a record player malfunctioned. Knight and LaBelle collaborated the same year on "I Don't Do Duets", for LaBelle's album Burnin'. Where My Heart Belongs (2014) marked her 30th top 40 R&B album, including work by Gladys Knight & the Pips. In 2012, Knight competed on season 14 of Dancing with the Stars, partnered with Tristan MacManus. "[21] Knight is ranked number eighteen on VH1 network's list of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock. [38] She retired from the road to raise their child while the Pips toured on their own. In 1987 Knight decided to pursue a solo career and she and the Pips recorded their final LP together, All Our Love (1987), for MCA Records. The act enlisted former Motown producers Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson for their first two albums: About Love (1980), which included the hit "Landlord" and Touch (1981).

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