Jimmy and Kenya soon began sharing their new-found knowledge of the gospel with their mother who was still deep in her own personal search for religion. He began to share his new faith with his sister, who, with her husband, soon joined the Church as well. The Bible is a part of the Mormon religion, but on this day, Jimmy was reading the Book of Mormon. When he told her that he was reading his scriptures, she was puzzled because what he was reading was not the Bible. However, one-day Jimmy opened his scriptures on an airplane as he sat next to his sister, Kenya. Initially, they didn’t tell the rest of the family about this dramatic change in their lives. Her oldest son, Jimmy, and his wife became members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She had no idea the foundation for her to receive that answer was quietly being laid for her. No one could tell her, and she was frustrated. She wanted to live forever with God but wondered what happened after you reached that milestone.
She had been raised in a religious home and she went on her own search for faith, exploring a variety of religions. Despite being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, and enjoying many of the perks of success, including #1 hits on the R&B charts over the years, she understood something was missing. In 1989, she left the Pips and embarked on a solo career. Gladys faced a great many trials in her life, including several divorces and a gambling addiction battle. Songs which she and the Pips recorded such as “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” “Neither One of Us,” “Midnight Train to Georgia,” “If I Were Your Woman,” and “You Are the Best Thing that Ever Happened to Me” are classics by all rights. Gladys became best known for her soulful recordings on both the Motown and Buddah Record labels during the 1960’s and 1970’s with her group Gladys Knight & the Pips. However, Gladys left the group after their second hit to be a stay-at-home mother, and the group continued without her until she returned later to support her family. The group altered its name to Gladys Knight & the Pips. The group went through many changes as various members left and others joined. The group was named after their manager and cousin, James Woods, nicknamed Pips. The following year, in 1953, when she was about eight, she, her brother Merald “Bubba” Knight, her sister Brenda, and her cousins Eleanor and William Guest started a group called The Pips. When she was seven, she moved to a larger stage, winning the Ted Mack’s Original Amateur Hour contest on television. Her mother told her God had given her an amazing voice and that He meant for her to share it. Gladys’ extraordinary music career began at the age of four when she began singing in a Baptist Church choir. She is also ranked number 18 on VH1 network’s list of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock, and in 1995, Gladys Knight was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. She is a seven-time Grammy Award winner (four as a solo artist and three with the Pips) and is currently ranked number eighteen in the 2005 Guinness Book of World Records’ list of the most successful female musical artists of all time. She was raised in a sound Christian home, and both of her parents were singers in the Wings Over Jordan Gospel Choir.
She was born on, in Atlanta, Georgia, to Sarah Elizabeth (née Woods) and Merald Woodlow Knight, Sr., who was a postal worker. Gladys Maria Knight dubbed the “Empress of Soul ” is an American singer-songwriter, actress, businesswoman, humanitarian, and author.
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