Beverley Knight Biography
Beverley Knight MBE is an English singer-songwriter, actor, and radio personality. Knight is well known for her hit singles “Greatest Day”, “Get Up!”, “Shoulda Woulda Coulda”, “Come as You Are”, and “Keep This Fire Burning”.
How old is Beverley Knight? – Age
She is 50 years old as of 22 March 2023. She was born in 1973 in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. Her real name is Beverley Anne Smith.
Beverley Knight Family – Education
She was born to Jamaican parents and raised in a strict Pentecostal environment where church attendance was a significant part of family life. Knight went to Woodfield Infant and Junior Schools and Highfields School in Wolverhampton.
Beverley Knight Husband
In November 2010, she became engaged to Mr. O’Keefe, a production technician. She married her fiance, James O’Keefe, on September 8, 2012.
Beverley Knight Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Beverley Knight Beverley’s Gospel Nights
She also hosted the BBC Radio 2 show Beverley’s Gospel Nights, which looked at the history and impact of gospel music. The show aired for six seasons till 2009, and featured conversations with celebrities like Michelle Williams and Shirley Caesar.
Knight returned to her upbringing in 2005 as the host of Beverley’s Gospel Nights, a BBC Radio 2 series on gospel music.The six-part documentary, which included interviews with singers such as Shirley Caesar and Percy Sledge, as well as Destiny’s Child members Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams, looked at the origins of gospel music and its impact on the black community.
The show was so successful that a second six-part series was commissioned, which premiered in March 2006 and featured additional interviews with musicians including Candi Staton, David McAlmont, and Marvin Winans. Knight’s interview technique and ability to get her guests to open up and discuss personal issues such as domestic violence and depression received positive feedback, prompting the Radio Times to write, “Knight’s passion for the music is obvious – but so is her warmth, which makes her a rarity among interviewers.”
Beverley Knight One More Try
She covered “One More Try” and released it as the third single from her seventh studio album, Soul UK, which pays tribute to British soul singers. It was released in the UK on October 23, 2011. The B-sides are remixes of Freeez’s track “Southern Freeez,” which is also featured on Soul UK.
Beverley Knight 100%
On March 23, 2009, Knight revealed on her official website that she had left Parlophone Records after 11 years and will be releasing new songs under her own label, Hurricane Records. Knight also revealed that her sixth studio album would be released in the summer of 2009, with a more current feel than her previous throwback soul record Music City Soul. Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (whose past credits include Janet Jackson, Usher, and Mariah Carey) and The Rural are new songwriters and producers for the project, joining longtime colleagues Guy Chambers and DJ Munro.
Knight announced on March 31, 2009, that her sixth studio album would be released in September via her own record company Hurricane Records. In a video blog on her website, she stated, “For the past year, I’ve been writing for the record.” I’ve been working on some new and old titles for the record.” She also revealed that she plans to tour in support of the record later this year.
The album is named 100%. The first finalized track from the album was “Every Step,” a collaboration between Knight and US producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. “Beautiful Night” was the album’s lead single, co-written with Amanda Ghost and produced by The Rural. The album was released the same week, on September 7, 2009, and debuted at number 17 on the UK albums chart. On October 5, “In Your Shoes” premiered on BBC 1Xtra. The radio remix features Chipmunk, a UK rapper.
Beverley Knight Cinderella
She made her pantomime debut at the Birmingham Hippodrome in 2017, as the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella. The protagonist is a young girl living in desolate circumstances who is suddenly blessed with extraordinary fortune when she ascends to the throne through marriage. The story of Rhodopis, told by the Greek geographer Strabo between 7 BC and 23 AD, about a Greek slave girl who marries Egypt’s king, is widely regarded as the first known version of the Cinderella story.
The story was first published in print in Europe in 1634 by Giambattista Basile in his Pentamerone in Italy. Charles Perrault published it in Histoires ou contes du temps passé in 1697 in French under the name Cendrillon, which was later anglicized as Cinderella. This is the version of the story that is currently most well-known in the English-speaking world. Aschenputtel was a later version that the Brothers Grimm included in Grimms’ Fairy Tales, their collection of folktales, which they published in 1812.