Williams III, Jon John, Jamey Jaz, Keith Thomas, Tom Dowd and Tiger Roberts.Ī humanitarian and philanthropist, Knight has devoted to various worthy causes, including the American Diabetes Association – for which she is a national spokesperson, the American Cancer Society, the Minority AIDS Project, amFAR and Crisis Intervention, and The Boys and Girls Club. “At Last” showed the world that she still has what it takes to record a hit album, employing the talents of contemporary producers like Randy Jackson, Gary Brown and James D.C.
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This seven-time Grammy winner has enjoyed #1 hits in Pop, Gospel, R&B and Adult Contemporary, and has triumphed in film, television and live performance.ĭebuting in 1960, singing lead at only 16-years-old, Gladys Knight & The Pips when on to achieve many Top 20 hits, like “Every Beat of My Heart,” “Letter Full of Tears,” “I Heard it Through the Grapevine” and “If I Were Your Woman,” setting the stage for an amazing run in the mid-1970s, with Top 10 gold-certified singles like “Neither One of Us (Wants to be the First to Say Goodbye),” “I’ve Got to Use My Imagination,” “Best Thing to Ever Happen to Me” and the #1 smash “Midnight Train to Georgia” establishing the group as the premiere pop/R&B vocal ensemble in the world.Īll told, Knight has recorded more than 38 albums over the years, including four solo albums during the past decade: “Good Woman” (1991) “Just for You” (1994) the inspirational “Many Different Roads” (1999) and “At Last” (2001). Very few singers over the last fifty years have matched her unassailable artistry. The great ones endure, and Knight has long been one of the greatest. Then touring.Seven-time Grammy Award-winning artist, Gladys Knight, who was named by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the 100 greatest singers of all time will be live at Calvin Gilmore’s Carolina Opry Theater on August 5, 2022. After 90 minutes, she’s still note perfect and pointedly declares: “Until we meet again …”Īt First Direct Arena, Leeds, on Sunday. “I could stay here all night, but I’ve got to get to the train station,” she quips, introducing her signature smash, Midnight Train to Georgia. The 1989 Bond theme Licence to Kill shows off her incredible lower register, and she seems teary when an emotional, particularly nostalgic The Way We Were receives a singalong and standing ovation. In a touching aside, she reveals that performing enables her to relive an amazing life. Gaye was “an amazing man”.īy now, the tales are coming too, of her shy friend Curtis Mayfield (who called her “Glads”) and the losses of her friends and peers, Aretha Franklin and Whitney Houston. She reminds people that the Pips were the first to record I Heard It Through the Grapevine, in 1967 – “and then Marvin Gaye stole it the following year”. Be careful not to hurt yourself.”Ĭome on it does, with 70s soul hits ( Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me, Baby Don’t Change Your Mind) piling into contemporary dips (Sam Smith’s Stay With Me) and songs from her disco and Motown eras. Moments later, she quips, “I feel it coming on. An astonishing 58 years after Every Beat of My Heart hit the US charts (the singer performing as part of Gladys Knight & the Pips with her brother and cousins, who have all retired), she is still clearly having fun, telling her euphoric audience: “We’ve been hanging out for, errrr … many, many years” to ripples of laughter.
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