Gladys Knight 格拉迪斯-奈特
- 风格
- #迪斯科 #平静风暴 #灵魂乐 #都市音乐
- 地区
- United States of America 美国
艺人介绍
Gladys Knight，20世纪最伟大的福音歌手之一。从童年开始，Gladys Knight就将演唱作为了自己的事业。她与她的兄弟和表兄弟夫妇共同组建了一支名为Pips的乐队，并且取得了成功。创造了数首top 10的歌曲。1966年，Gladys Knight搬到motown开始了她的独唱生涯，成为了一位真正的福音歌手。然后一步一步成为天王巨星。
组合Gladys Knight & the Pips。
by Richie Unterberger
One of the great soul singers, Gladys Knight was a performer from her childhood years, forming the Pips with her brother Merald and a couple cousins. They made the Top Ten in 1961 with the heavily doo wop-influenced Every Beat of My Heart, and recorded some fine, nowadays overlooked pop-soul sides for the Fury and Maxx labels in the early and mid-60s, sometimes under the direction of songwriter Van McCoy. A couple singles from this period, Letter Full of Tears and Giving Up, made the Top 40, but Knight didnt hit her commercial stride until she moved to Motown in 1966. Steeped in the gospel tradition, like so many soul singers, Knight & the Pips developed into one of Motowns most dependable acts, although they never quite scaled the commercial or artistic heights of fellow stars on the label like the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, and the Temptations. With Norman Whitfield providing the production and much of the songwriting, the Pips fit into the mainstream of Motowns machine well, scoring big hits with some rabble-rousers (like Friendship Train and the original version of I Heard It Through the Grapevine), mainstream midtempo soul (It Should Have Been Me and The End of Our Road), and smooth ballads like If I Were Your Woman.
In 1973, Knight had her biggest Motown hit with Neither One of Us, which made number two; shortly afterward, she and the Pips left Motown for Buddah. The group members were briefly superstars in 1973-1974, reeling off the smashes Midnight Train to Georgia (their only number one), Ive Got to Use My Imagination, and Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me. This ranked as some of their best material, but Knight soon moved toward an easy listening, adult contemporary direction, one that shes maintained to this day. Now performing separately from the Pips (who have retired), her days as a high-charting star ended after the mid-70s, although she remains fairly popular, and maintained an active recording career into the new millennium, releasing At Last, an album of urban R&B, on MCA in 2000; One Voice, a gospel set, on Many Roads Records in 2005; and Before Me, an album of jazz standards, on Verve in 2006.
热门评论
- @ralfwei：当年Cissy Houston(Whitney Houston母亲)单飞后录制了一首由乡村音乐改编的歌曲，她认为这首歌可以让自己走红，可是她错了，这首歌并没有使她成功，但两年后这首歌却被Gladys唱红并登上了排行榜的榜首，并且成为全球最经典五百首英文歌曲之一，它就是Midnight Train To Georgia，这让Cissy非常沮丧，歌是她的。两个个版本都听过，平心而论，虽然Cissy的嗓音比Knight优越，但Knight的版本却更加打动人心，她的嗓音里面有一股浓的化不开的感情在里面，这种平和正是Cissy却缺乏的，她和她的女儿一样歌唱极赋创造性，可有些歌曲质朴一些却更加打动人。
最新简评（共45条）
- @西岭雪东吴船(就像他在游戏中所追求的排...)：motown
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- @NTKeans( 云雷， 屯 ，君子以...)：老學校
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