Gladys Knight & The Pips
Gladys Maria Knight (born May 28, 1944) is an American singer and actress. Knight recorded hits through the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s with her family group Gladys Knight & the Pips, which included her brother Merald "Bubba" Knight and cousins William Guest and Edward Patten. She has won seven Grammy Awards (four as a solo artist and three with the Pips), and is often referred to as the "Empress of Soul". Knight has recorded two number-one Billboard Hot 100 singles ("Midnight Train to Georgia" and "That's What Friends Are For" which she did with Dionne Warwick, Elton John and Stevie Wonder), eleven number-one R&B singles and six number-one R&B albums. In 1989, Knight recorded the theme song for the James Bond film Licence to Kill. Two of her songs ("I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Midnight Train to Georgia") were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for "historical, artistic and significant" value. She is an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Vocal Group Hall of Fame along with The Pips. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Knight among the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time (2010). She is also a recipient of the National Medal of Arts and Kennedy Center Honors.
Genre: soul, funk, disco, motown, classic-soul, quiet-storm
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Top Tracks
- Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye)
- I Heard It Through The Grapevine
- If I Were Your Woman - Single Version
- Taste of Bitter Love
- The Way We Were / Try to Remember
- Bourgie', Bourgie'
- If I Were Your Woman
- Midnight Train to Georgia
- Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me
- Friendship Train
- Landlord
- I Feel a Song (In My Heart)
- Still Such a Thing
- Baby, Don't Change Your Mind
- The Need to Be
- Save The Overtime (For Me)
- I've Got to Use My Imagination
- Love Finds Its Own Way
- The Way We Were / Try to Remember - Single Version
- Bourgie', Bourgie' - Single Version
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