A true child prodigy, Gladys Knight was born in Atlanta in 1944 and has been earning her way as a singer since the age of four. By the time she was in high school, she was singing in juke joints and nightclubs as the opening act for the likes of Sam Cooke, Ike and Tina Turner, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, B.B. King, Jackie Wilson and Little Richard. And then there was the Motown years and the multi-Grammy award winning ones that have followed. Along the way she faced many of life's most difficult challenges, including racism, sexual assault, addiction and recovery, along with her struggle as an independent woman of the world. This book tells the story of the soulful voice behind such songs as "Midnight Train to Georgia", "If I Were Your Woman", and "I Heard it Through the Grapevine".
- ISBN10 0575602872
- ISBN13 9780575602878
- Publish Date 24 June 1999 (first published 1 January 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 February 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Orion mass market paperback
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 252
- Language English