Gladys Knight

Gladys Knight will be at Andrew Jackson Hall in Nashville, TN - March 6, 2015 at 8:00 p.m.

Gladys Knight, the seven-time Grammy  award winner has enjoyed #1 hits in Pop, Gospel, R&B and Adult Contemporary, and has triumphed in film, television and live performance. Georgia-born, Knight began performing gospel music at age four in the Mount Mariah Baptist Church and sang as a guest soloist with the Morris Brown College Choir.  Three years later, she won the grand prize on television’s “Ted Mack’s Amateur Hour.” Knight has recorded more than 38 albums over the years, including four solo albums during the past decade. She recorded some of the most memorable songs of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s singing with Gladys Knight & The Pips.  Top 20 hits, like “Every Beat of My Heart,” “I Heard it Through the Grapevine,”  “If I Were Your Woman" and the #1 smash hit “Midnight Train to Georgia. In her first effort since 2013’s “Another Journey” – Knight’s 8^th solo effort – this summer marks the release of “Where My Heart Belongs”, a new inspiration gospel album.  “Another Journey” enjoyed success from the hit “I Who Have Nothing” as well as the up-tempo track “Settle,” produced by Randy Jackson, with whom she previously collaborated with on her Grammy-winning album, “At Last.”  Knight also enjoyed the success of her song “You and I Ain’t Nothin’ No More” which appeared over the end credits of the critically-acclaimed Lee Daniels film THE BUTLER. This fall, Knight will star in the Lifetime original movie “Seasons of Love,” airing Sunday, November 23^rd. 

A 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.  She has been honored by numerous organizations as well, including the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), B’Nai Brith, and is a recent recipient of BET’s Lifetime Achievement Award

Gladys Knight is a wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, performer, restaurateur, and businesswoman with a spiritual outlook on her life. Her faith in God has been the driving force behind all of Knight’s endeavors, guiding her through her many successes.