No other vocal group could have dramatized the play between foreground and background as skillfully as Gladys Knight and the Pips. Knight, who is now seventy-seven, went solo in the nineteen-eighties.
She has at times displayed the more conservative impulses associated with an ethic of Black excellence. In , when other Black artists expressed support for Colin Kaepernick by declining to perform at the Super Bowl, Knight defended her decision to sing the national anthem by saying that the song should be kept separate from acts of protest.
But her approach to musical activism has always been subtle, if not inscrutable. We wanted progress. We are Black people and we should be proud, and we want our people lifting us up! But there is a gap between the story she tells and what appears onscreen. These moments of disconnect—between the members of a group, and between what is remembered and what is portrayed—are perfectly suited to soul. In , Knight decided to take on another kind of role by joining the cast of Dancing with the Stars , the popular television competition, and strutting her stuff against the likes of actress Melissa Gilbert, actor Jaleel White and TV personality Sherri Shepherd.
Two years later, she released another studio album, the gospel-infused Where My Heart Belongs. Knight married her first husband, an Atlanta musician named Jimmy Newman, at age The marriage produced two children, James and Kenya, before Newman, a drug addict, abandoned the family and died only a few years later.
Her second marriage, to Barry Hankerson, ended acrimoniously in after five years in a prolonged custody battle over their son, Shanga. Knight married author and motivational speaker Les Brown in ; that marriage ended in In addition to a tumultuous love life, Knight suffered through a serious gambling problem that lasted more than a decade. Since , Knight has lived in Las Vegas, close to her mother, Elizabeth, and two of her children and their families.
In April , Knight married William McDowell, a corporate consultant she had reportedly met 10 years earlier, but had only begun dating the previous January. We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives.
Suge Knight is a rap industry businessman who is the co-founder of Death Row Records, having worked with Dr. Gladys Knight was born on May 28, She celebrated her 74th birthday in She has a sister, Brenda, and one living brother, Merald Jr, and one late brother, David. Langston George left the same year and Gladys Knight left in to start a family. Edward Patten was later diagnosed with diabetes, and he passed away from the disease in February William Guest died from congestive heart failure in In , original Pips member Eleanor Guest died of heart failure.
In , she recorded the theme tune for the James Bond movie Licence to Kill. Gladys Knight has been married four times and has three children in total. At 16 years old, she became pregnant and married musician James 'Jimmy' Newman in She had a miscarriage, but the couple went on to have two children.
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