Georgia-born, Knight began performing gospel music at age four in the Mount Mariah Baptist Church and sang as a guest soloist with the Morris Brown College Choir. Adored the world over, Knight then toured across the UK, performing at packed arenas that included a sold-out performance at Wembley Stadium. In February 2011, Knight reunited with Elton John, Dionne Warwick, and Stevie Wonder for the first time in 25 years to perform their Grammy-winning song, “That’s What Friends Are For” at an AIDS research benefit at the downtown Cipriani in New York. This followed a successful four-year show run at The Flamingo, which the Las Vegas Review-Journal praised as “the number-one show on the Strip.” A tireless humanitarian, Knight is an iconic supporter of the Boys & Girls Club of America, to which she donated a Randy Jacksonproduced song, “The Dream.” As the celebrated singer of the timeless song “Midnight Train to Georgia,” Knight was a natural fit as national spokesperson and host of Amtrak’s National Train Day, the celebration of which took place Washington, DC’s famed Union Station. Knight, known as the “Empress of Soul,” a longtime Las Vegas resident, returned to the Strip in the late-2000s to the famed Tropicana Hotel for a special engagement that ran in the newly named Gladys Knight Theater, making her the first African-American performer to have a venue named after her in Las Vegas. This seven-time Grammy winner has enjoyed #1 hits in Pop, Gospel, R&B and Adult Contemporary, and has triumphed in film, television and live performance. Very few singers over the last fifty years have matched her unassailable artistry. The great ones endure, and Gladys Knight has long been one of the greatest. Tickets starting at $35 are on sale now and are available online at AXS.com or in person at the Pikes Peak Center box office. All tickets are subject to sales tax, facility and ticketing surcharges.
Tickets go on sale Tuesday, February 7th at. She’s now thrown herself into managing her restaurant business, but may yet be tempted back to the stage fans should watch this space, especially seeing as that last jaunt suggested she’s lost none of what made her a star in the first place.Danny Zelisko Presents welcomes Gladys Knight to Pikes Peak Center at 7:30 p.m. Rather than stick to her recent penchant for stripped-back affairs - just her and a microphone - she put on an impressively lavish stage show in arenas around the country, and was joined on some dates by a fellow titan of soul in Dionne Warwick. Back in 2009, she embarked upon a tour of the UK that she vowed would be her last in an emotionally charged decision, she took Tito Jackson along with her as her supporting act, just months after the passing of his brother Michael. With her backing band The Pips, she had more than twenty top twenty singles on either side of the Atlantic over the course of a near forty year career. This is one of those moments Gladys Knight is a genuine Motown icon, winning four Grammy awards over the course of a career that saw her come to define the sound of a generation in which her record label revolutionised popular music.
As much as the meaning of the word ‘legend’ has been hugely diluted over the past few years, there are still instances when it seems wrong to use any other term.
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