Beverley and Cynthia Knight look back: ‘Cynth never let me go off and get lost in showbiz’

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Beverley and Cynthia Knight look back: ‘Cynth never let me go off and get lost in showbiz’

The singer and actor, and her sister, on gospel, dodgy boyfriends and meeting BowieBorn in Wolverhampton in the West Midlands in 1973, Beverley Knight is a musician and actor. She discovered her talent for singing in her Pentecostal church choir when she was a child. Signing her first record contract at the age of 21, she joined a wave of innovative R&B stars in the UK in the 1990s, and found commercial success in the 00s, with tracks such as Sh…