Shine bright by danyel smith
Native, from singing regularly in a Virginia Beach-based cover band at the start of her career in the 1970s. That didn’t stop Tavanti, a Washington, D.C. Just a few decades past, Virginia Beach, Virginia, was a mess of hatred percolating on the undying simmer of slavery and Jim Crow laws Case in point, Blacks weren’t allowed to walk on the beach there until the 1960s. She rolls into its last third, infused with the holiness of both giving back, and ready to merge with the talented artists that surround her. In 2022, Knight was o celebrated for her illustrious career in the music industry by Kennedy Center Honors.Īs a performing artist, she is unmatched, yet her intensely casual and deeply influential brilliance is taken for granted think of, as just as one of countless examples, the video for 1985’s “That’s What Friends Are For,” the number one pop single that raised millions for AIDS research and became an anthem of the battle against HIV/AIDS.
In 1996, Mariah Carey inducted Knight into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
As the leader of Gladys Knight & the Pips, she has been nominated for 22 Grammys and won 7.
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Known as an emotional, professional leader, Knight was winning vocal contests at age 7 and helping to support her family with the prize money.