The party kept rolling with hits such as “On and On” from the Academy Award-nominated soundtrack of Curtis Mayfield’s “Claudine,” the 1974 comedy about love in the inner city. 1 smash, “Midnight Train to Georgia,” establishing Gladys Knight and The Pips as the premiere pop/R&B vocal ensemble in the world. Top-20 hits, including “Every Beat of My Heart,” “Letter Full of Tears,” “I Heard it Through the Grapevine,” and “If I Were Your Woman,” set the stage for an amazing run in the mid-’70s, 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 No. With Knight singing lead and The Pips providing lush harmonies and graceful choreography, the group went on to achieve icon status, having recorded some of the most memorable songs of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s. The group debuted its first album in 1960, when Knight was just 16. The group was renamed Gladys Knight & The Pips, and following George’s departure in 1962, the classic line-up was in place. In 1959, Brenda and Elenor left the group, replaced by cousin Edward Patten and friend Langston George. They called themselves The Pips in honor of their cousin/manager, James Pip Woods. Three years later, she won the grand prize on television’s “Ted Mack’s Amateur Hour,” and the following year, her mother Elizabeth Knight created the group consisting of Gladys, her brother Bubba, her sister Brenda and her cousins William and Elenor Guest. Georgia-born, Knight began performing gospel music at age 4 in the Mount Mariah Baptist Church and sang as a guest soloist with the Morris Brown College Choir. Tickets can be purchased at, at the box office, 216 W. Tickets are $79 for reserved seating, $44 for lawn seating, and $34 for ages 12 and younger. Local musicians Bishop Mayfield and Friends will open the show. Knight, known as the “Empress of Soul,” will kick off the annual Britt Music & Arts Festival on stage at 7:30 p.m. 1 hits in pop, gospel, R&B and adult contemporary, also triumphing in film, television and live performance. Very few singers over the past 50 years have matched her unassailable artistry, and this seven-time Grammy winner has enjoyed No. The great ones endure, and Gladys Knight has long been one of the greatest. Gladys Knight performs at a special screening of "Summer of Soul" at The Richard Rodgers Amphitheater at Marcus Garvey Park on Saturday, June 19, 2021, in New York.
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