They were replaced by another cousin, Edward Patten, and a friend, Langston George. By 1959, Brunswick dropped the group, and both Brenda Knight and Eleanor Guest left the group to begin families. Despite this, the group was now opening for top recording acts such as Jackie Wilson and Sam Cooke. At Brunswick, the group released two recordings that failed to chart. This success allowed them to get a record contract with Brunswick Records in 1957. By 1955, the group began performing on the talent show circuit in their hometown of Atlanta, winning each talent show they entered. They settled on the name The Pips, inspired by the nickname of their cousin James "Pip" Woods. Shortly, the quintet agreed to form a group under the insistence of Gladys' mother Elizabeth Knight. That same year, Gladys, her brother Bubba, sister Brenda, and their cousins Eleanor and William Guest began performing together during Bubba's tenth birthday party after a record player malfunctioned.
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She first achieved minor fame by winning Ted Mack's The Original Amateur Hour TV show contest at the age of eight in 1952. Throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s, she would sing in the church choir. She has an older sister, Brenda, one living brother, Merald "Bubba" Jr. Knight was born in Atlanta and is the daughter of Merald Woodlow Knight Sr., a postal worker, and Sarah Elizabeth (née Woods). 5 Gladys Knight & Ron Winans Chicken & Waffles.Rolling Stone magazine ranked Knight among the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. She also recorded the theme song for the 1989 James Bond film Licence to Kill. Two of her songs (" I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Midnight Train to Georgia") were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for "historical, artistic and significant" value. She has won seven Grammy Awards (four as a solo artist and three with the Pips) and is an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Vocal Group Hall of Fame along with The Pips. Knight has recorded two number-one Billboard Hot 100 singles (" Midnight Train to Georgia" and " That's What Friends Are For"), eleven number-one R&B singles and six number-one R&B albums. A seven-time Grammy Award-winner, Knight is known for the hits she recorded during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s with her group The Pips, which also included her brother Merald "Bubba" Knight and cousins William Guest and Edward Patten. Gladys Maria Knight (born May 28, 1944), known as the "Empress of Soul", is an American singer and actress.
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