Gladys Maria Knight is known dubbed the “Empress of Soul” and was born on May 28, 1944, is an American singer, songwriter, actor, and businesswoman. Knight, a seven-time Grammy Award winner, collaborated with her family members, including her brother Merald “Bubba” Knight, and cousins William Guest, and Edward Patten, to record popular songs in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
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?
William McDowell is the current partner of Knight. She married William McDowell in 2001 and they are still together to date. 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.
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