MUSIC LEGEND GLADYS KNIGHT MAKES SMITH CENTER DEBUT

The celebrated singer of iconic melody Midnight Train to Georgia, and also a longtime Las Vegas resident, Gladys Knight remains a music icon who has achieved numerous No. 1 hits throughout her 50-year career. Her vocal group Gladys Knight & the Pips became a musical mega force throughout the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s, performing as one of the world’s foremost R&B/pop groups, with chart-topping hits like I Heard It Through the Grapevine and I’ve Got to Use My Imagination. Knight’s additional hits include classics such as Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me, Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye), On and On and License to Kill, recorded as the title song for the James Bond blockbuster starring Timothy Dalton.

Knight’s career has further expanded to acting on television, film and Broadway. This has included costarring with Harrison Ford in hit movie Hollywood Homicide, acting in popular shows like The Jamie Foxx Show, NBC’s Las Vegas and CBS’s JAG, and starring in smash Broadway musical Smokey Joe’s Café.