Albany Civic Center to present ‘An Evening With Gladys Knight’
One of America’s great singers, Gladys Knight, is taking the midnight train to Albany, Georgia, on Feb. 26 for a performance at the Albany Civic Center.
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ALBANY — One of America’s great singers, Gladys Knight, is taking the midnight train to Albany, Georgia on Feb. 26 for a performance at the Albany Civic Center.
The Civic Center show begins at 7 p.m.
The great ones endure, and Knight, whose best-known work was with her backing band, the Pips, has long been one of the greatest. Very few singers over the last 50 years have matched her unassailable artistry. The seven-time Grammy winner has enjoyed No. 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 4 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,” 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. They called themselves The Pips in honor of their cousin/manager, James Pip Woods.
In 1959, Brenda and Elenor left the group, replaced by cousin Edward Patten and friend Langston George. The group was renamed Gladys Knight & The Pips, and following George’s departure in 1962, the classic lineup was in place.
A humanitarian and philanthropist, Knight has devoted herself 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.
Tickets for “An Evening With Gladys Knight,” which are $99.75, $79.75, $69.75 and $49.75, go on sale Friday at 10 a.m.
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