Gladys Knight is a 78-year-old American Singer. Born Gladys Maria Knight on 17th May 1944 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, she is famous for Gladys Knight & the Pips in a career that spans 1952–the present.
In 1976, Knight made her acting debut as the lead in the film Pipe Dreams for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress. In 2003, she had a small role in the movie Hollywood Homicide, which starred Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett. In 2009, Knight was featured in Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All by Myself, the film version of a play he had dramatized, and performed her song “The Need To Be” from the 1974 album I Feel a Song.
Who is Gladys Knight’s current partner?
Knight married William McDowell in 2001. They have seventeen grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren between them. Knight and McDowell reside in Fairview, North Carolina, near where they own a community center, the former Reynolds High School in Asheville attended by McDowell.
