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- NAME: Gladys Knight
- OCCUPATION: Film Actress, Television Actress, Songwriter, Singer
- BIRTH DATE: May 28, 1944 (Age: 69)
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Atlanta, Georgia
- Full Name: Gladys Maria Knight
- Nickname: "Empress of Soul"
- ZODIAC SIGN: Gemini
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Singer Gladys Knight has given voice to multiple R&B hits (with and without her Pips), including "Midnight Train to Georgia."
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In the late 1980s, after losing $45,000 in one night at the baccarat table, Knight joined Gamblers Anonymous, which helped her quit the habit.
Since 1978, Knight has lived in Las Vegas, close to her mother, Elizabeth, and two of her children and their families. She continues to perform frequently in Las Vegas and beyond, and published a memoir, Between Each Line of Pain and Glory: My Life Story, in 1997. With the Pips,
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she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rhythm & Blues Foundation in 1998.
In April 2001, Knight married William McDowell, a corporate consultant she had reportedly met 10 years earlier, but had only begun dating the previous January.
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