Gladys Knight

What I admire most about Gladys Knight is her staying power. Crowned the "Empress of Soul," she rode hits across three decades with the Pips, a group built from her own brother and cousins, and that family loyalty colors everything I hear in her music. Seven Grammys, a Kennedy Center Honor, a National Medal of Arts, and still active past eighty is staggering. Her voice carries a lived-in warmth that younger singers can imitate but never fake. To me she represents the rare artist whose dignity and craft only deepen with age.

Name (English)

Gladys Knight

Name (Japanese)

グラディス・ナイト

Reading

ぐらでぃす・ないと

Born

May 28, 1944 (age 82)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Monkey

Origin

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Occupation

singer / actor / composer / television actor / film actor

Awards & achievements

• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
• 2022 Kennedy Center Honors
• 2023 National Medal of Arts

• Official sitehttps://gladysknight.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/msgladysknight/
• Xhttps://x.com/MsGladysKnight
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys%20Knight
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B0%E3%83%A9%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8A%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q235952

Tags

• Georgia
• singer
• actor
• composer

Last updated

2026-06-16

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.