Their first hit, “Every Beat of My Heart, ” although reaching the Top 20 Rhythm and Blues chart, was pirated and earned them no money. Their first single, “Whistle My Love, ” was released by Brunswick in 1957.
They performed pop music as the Pips, opening for such soul stars are Sam Cooke, and maintained the gospel audience by singing as the Fontaineers. Knight told the New York Times that their first professional engagement was singing “Canadian Summer ” and “In the Still of the Night ” at a Y.M.C.A. The Pips were invented when she joined with her bother Merald ( ”Bub-ba ”) and cousin William Guest to perform at a family party. She was a prize winner on the Ted Mack “Amateur Hour ” in 1952, singing popular solos. Her debut was made at the Mount Mariah Baptist Church in Atlanta at the age of four. Together, Gladys Knight and the Pips are one of the classic R&B and crossover groups whose sound has grown in popularity from the heyday of Motown in the early 1960s to the present day.īorn in Alabama in 1944, Gladys Knight was a gospel singer from childhood. ” Vince Aletti ’s praise for the vocal power of Gladys Knight is only one of the many such descriptions that she has received over her more than thirty years of performing and recording with the Pips. From the beginning, Knight ’s was a strikingly seasoned voice, dark and smokey, intense but contained, more glowing than explosive.
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Knight ’s husky, raw honey vocals are full of heat and miles deep. “Of all the voices in the pop pantheon, one of the richest, warmest and most comforting belongs to Gladys Knight ….
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