Gladys Knight Is A 2024 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree — MadameNoire

The 2024 Grammy Awards will honor a few of the greatest music business icons with particular benefit awards, together with the one and solely Gladys Knight.

Based on the Grammy’s press launch (Jan. 5), Gladys Knight is slated to obtain a 2024 Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award, giving a grand nod at her artistry and affect throughout a number of genres, from rock and soul to R&B.

Knight acknowledged the latest accolade on her Instagram account, writing, “See you quickly. What an honor!”

The seven-time Grammy winner is understood for her high Billboard Sizzling 100 hits like “Midnight Prepare to Georgia” (1973) and “That’s What Associates Are For” (1985) (that includes Sir Elton John, Dionne Warwick, and Stevie Marvel). She’s topped the charts with “If I Had been Your Lady” (1970) and “I Really feel A Tune (In My Coronary heart)/Don’t Burn Down The Bridge” (1974).

The 79-year-old vocal powerhouse has recorded over 38 albums, together with 4 solo information. 

She appeared on season 14 of Dancing With The Stars (2012), carried out on the inaugural season of The Masked Singer because the bee and carried out the Nationwide Anthem on the Tremendous Bowl LIII in Atlanta in 2019. In 2021, President Joe Biden bestowed the Nationwide Medal of Arts award on her, and he or she obtained a Kennedy Middle Honor for Lifetime Creative Achievements in 2022. 

Knight’s first Grammy got here on the 1974 Grammys when her soul-funk band Gladys Knight and the Pips gained within the Finest R&B Vocal Efficiency by a Duo, Group or Refrain class for “Midnight Prepare to Georgia.

In an interview with Grammy, Knight defined how the band didn’t anticipate to win and had been caught off guard once they had been introduced the winners.

“By no means in 1,000,000 years did we dream we’d win two GRAMMYs in a single night time. By no means in 1,000,000 years. And we dream rather a lot,” Knight stated.

“The Academy is honored to pay tribute to this 12 months’s Particular Advantage Award recipients — a outstanding group of creators and business professionals whose affect resonates with generations worldwide,” Harvey Mason Jr., CEO of the Recording Academy, stated. “Their contributions to music span genres, backgrounds and crafts, reflecting the wealthy range that fuels our artistic group. We sit up for honoring these music business trailblazers subsequent month as a part of our week-long celebration main as much as Music’s Greatest Evening®.”

Different recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award are gospel group The Clark Sisters, rap group N.W.A and singer Donna Summer time (posthumously).

The Grammys will happen on Saturday, Feb. 3, on the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles.