Gladys — “The Baddest.” We don’t call her that for nothing. She’s been in it to win it since the time she could walk and talk, or should I say sing and dance. Born May 28, 1944, Gladys Maria Knight won Ted Mack’s Original Amateur Hour TV show contest when she was seven years old in 1952.
In 1953, along with her brother and sister and cousins, the Knights formed a family group and… well, you kind of know the rest.
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Gladys Knight (with and without The Pips) gives us a soulful send off as we head to Cuba to catch up to septuagenarian vocalist Omara Pontuondo, and we wrap it up with 13 versions of "Feel Like Making Love" featuring Roberta Flack, Bobby Lyle & Will Downing, Roy Ayers, D’Angelo, Jocelyn Brown, Lumidee & Shaggy, Los Hombres Calientes, Oscar Cruz, Marlena Shaw, Don Braden, Nancy Wilson, Gladys Knight & The Pips, and Izit.