Artist: Beverley Knight
Genre(s):
Pop
R&B: Soul
Dance: Pop
Discography:
Voice: Best Of
Year: 2006
Tracks: 15
Come As You Are
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
Affirmation
Year: 2004
Tracks: 14
Who I Am
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
Prodigal Sista
Year: 1999
Tracks: 16
The B-Funk
Year: 1995
Tracks: 14
Neo-soul prima donna Beverley Knight channeled the sound and disembodied spirit of classical R&B to emerge as unitary of Britain's biggest new pop stars of the '90s. Born Beverley Anne Smith to Jamaican parents in Wolverhampton, England, on March 22, 1973, she grew up in a rigorous Pentecostal surroundings and sang in her christian church choir throughout adolescence. Raised on a steady dieting of gospel truth music and tabu to heed to its profane counterpart, she yet observed crossover legends Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin and began composition her have original songs at historic period 13. By 17, Knight was headlining local nightclubs and singing advertisement jingles for a local wireless station; the exposure earned her a recording shrink proffer, but she declined, instead poring over religious theory and philosophy at the University of Wolverhampton.
In late 1994, Knight signed to the independent label Dome, teaming with London production 3 2BE3 to cut her debut LP, The B-Funk. A critical smash up that earned acclamation for its adhesion to old school soul output and sensibilities, the album south Korean won a number of media and industriousness awards only failed to translate its acclaim into commercial success. The individual "Flavor of the Old School" nevertheless buggy the U.K. Top 40 following a 1996 re-release, merely shortly after, Knight split with Dome in the wake of creative tensions and signed with EMI's Parlophone subsidiary company to tone ending Profligate Sista in the summer of 1998. The album generated five Top 40 smashes, chieftain among them "Sterling Day" and "Score It Back '99," a collaborationism with U.S. doorknocker Redman, and was well on its way to winning Best Album honors at the yearly MOBO (Music of Black Origin) Awards.
The graph smashes "Grow Up!" and "Shoulda Woulda Coulda" awaited the leaping 2002 outlet of Knight's third base LP, World Health Organization I Am, a Top Ten strike and Mercury Music Prize candidate historied as the singer's nigh deeply personal drive up to that point. She next teamed with pop producers Guy Chambers and Peter-John Vettese for 2004's Assertion, which boasted a polished, mainstream sound that disoriented a meaning section of her urban audience. The record still became Knight's biggest-selling loss nevertheless, buoyed by the hits "Non Too Late for Love" and "Keep This Fire Burning." Affirmation was profoundly divine by her relationship with platonic soulmate Tyrone Jamison, host of the BBC programme The Gay Show, wHO lost his conflict with HIV in 2003. Knight would get an ambassador for charities including the Stop AIDS Campaign, Christian Aid, and the Terrence Higgins Trust, and in 2006 was created a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her originative and charitable contributions.
That same year, Knight co-starred in the BBC1 music showcase Just the Two of Us and issued the retrospective Voice: The Best of Beverley Knight, enjoying a Top 20 gain with her comprehend of Erma Franklin's soulfulness classic "Piece of My Heart."
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