Knight, Madame Marie

Knight, Madame Marie (1918, Sanford, FL) As a child, Marie Knight lived in Newark, New Jersey. Her parents were members of the Old Tabernacle Church of God in Christ (COGIC), and Marie started to sing in their sanctified choir when the was five; she attended the COGIC conventions in Memphis and even served as secretary of the Ministerial Alliance. When she was twenty, thanks to her beautiful contralto, Knight was already a well-known soloist in the COGIC circles, performing their theme song, “…