Knight has recorded two number-one Billboard Hot 100 singles (' Midnight Train to Georgia' and ' That's What Friends Are For' which she did with Dionne Warwick, Sir Elton John and Stevie Wonder), eleven number-one R&B singles and six number-one R&B albums. A seven-time Grammy Award-winner, Knight recorded hits through the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s with her family group Gladys Knight & the Pips, which 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.
