We all have a responsibility, and since I've been so wonderfully blessed, I really want to share and to make life at least a little better. So every chance I get to share the gospel or uplift people, I will take full advantage of that opportunity.

After giving birth in 1963 to her only daughter businesswoman Kenya (Newman) Jackson Knight returned to recording with the Pips in order to support her family. 2001 Best Traditional R&B Vocal Album – "At Last"
2004 Best Gospel Performance – "Heaven Help Us All" – Ray Charles & Gladys Knight. " On the October 9 concert his mother Katherine Jackson and his brothers Jackie and Marlon were acknowledged in the audience.

She is best known for the hits Gladys Knight recorded during the 1960s and 1970s for both the Motown and Buddah Records labels with her group Gladys Knight & the Pips the most famous incarnation of which also included her brother Merald "Bubba" Knight and her cousins Edward Patten and William Guest. Gladys Maria Knight (born May 28 1944) known as the "Empress of Soul" is an American singer-songwriter actress businesswoman humanitarian and author.