“I’m just happy people still want want to listen to my music any way they can get it.” “I didn’t know what Verzuz was and they showed me the Brandy/Monica one and my son and team kept encouraging me to do it and I took their word for it and it ended up great,” Knight said.Īfterward, both she and LaBelle saw a surge in downloads of their old songs. It was dubbed a perfect pandemic balm of timeless classics. Seven months later, in September 2020, Knight and Patti LaBelle blew up the streaming world when their edition of the Verzuz web series on Instagram and Apple Music drew millions of online viewers (including Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey). “As it has turned out, we’ve all learned to live differently,” she said. Having just come off a tour in Australia, she said she was aware the pandemic was worsening. This will be the fifth time she has performed in Clearwater in the past eight years, including the opening night of the 36th anniversary of the Clearwater Jazz Holiday in Coachman Park in 2015.īut that night in March 2020 when she sang at Ruth Eckerd Hall, she said she was hoping for the best. 6, her first performance at Ruth Eckerd Hall since the pandemic shut down live entertainment. Gladys Knight sings on the opening night of the 36th anniversary of the Clearwater Jazz Holiday in Coachman Park in 2015.
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