“I started to do some songwriting,” Avehre told The Boombox, “and approached me and said, ‘You know, I’ve never really done this before, but I really want you to consider being my protégé.’ And how do you say ‘no’ to Gladys Knight?” Apparently, you don’t. Singer/songwriter Avehre from Chicago sang backup for the star on tour several years ago, and is now readying the release of new music, an EP called Reconciliation. One “young one” is grateful for Gladys’ experience and wisdom.At the Albert Hall, Gladys joked about her age: “The young ones say, ‘What are you doing out here?’ I tell them, ‘I guess they aren’t through with me yet.’” The Hollywood Bowl concert was “a non-stop musical extravaganza, exquisitely choreographed, for more than one-and-a-half hours,” according to one eyewitness. Now, in her early seventies, Gladys is displaying no desire to slow down. It put Knight onto the path she’s still traveling today.
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Then again, she knows about children and music: Gladys was eight years old when her mother entered her for a TV talent show, Ted Mack’s The Original Amateur Hour.
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