Gladys Knight, the “Empress of Soul” will perform at the Crown Complex in Fayetteville, NC on November 10, 2023. The Nov. 10 show will kick off the 88th season of Fayetteville’s Community Concerts.

Gladys Knight has long been one of the greatest. This seven-time Grammy winner has enjoyed #1 hits in Pop, Gospel, R&B and Adult Contemporary.

Knight began performing at age four. Three years later, she won the grand prize on television’s “Ted Mack’s Amateur Hour,” and the following year, her mother Elizabeth Knight created the group The Pips consisting of Gladys, her brother Bubba, her sister Brenda and her cousins William and Elenor Guest. In 1959, Brenda and Elenor left the group, replaced by cousin Edward Patten and friend Langston George. The group was renamed Gladys Knight & The Pips, and following George’s departure in 1962, the classic line-up was in place.

The group debuted their first album in 1960, when Knight was just sixteen. The group went on to achieve icon status, having recorded some of the most memorable songs of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Top 20 hits, like “Every Beat of My Heart,” “Letter Full of Tears,” “I Heard it Through the Grapevine” and “If I Were Your Woman,” set the stage for an amazing run in the mid-1970s, with Top 10 gold-certified singles like “Neither One of Us (Wants to be the First to Say Goodbye),” “I’ve Got to Use My Imagination,” “Best Thing to Ever Happen to Me” and the #1 smash “Midnight Train to Georgia” established Gladys Knight and The Pips as the premiere pop/R&B vocal ensemble in the world. 

Over the course of her career, Knight has recorded more than 38 albums over the years. 

Tickets will go on sale Friday, Aug. 25, 2023 at 10 a.m. at the Crown Box Office and on Ticketmaster.com.