For 토토 안전 nearly 50 years, Gladys Knight has been serenading audiences around the world with one of the most distinctive voices in music. Now, she’s headlining her own show in her own theater, at the Tropicana in Las Vegas, where she spent some time with “Early Show” Special Contributor Ayla Brown.

Brown pointed out that anyone who’s listened to the radio in the last 50 years knows Knight’s songs, from hits like “Heard It Through the Grapevine” to “Midnight Train to Georgia.”

Christened the “Empress of Soul,” Knight began performing at the age of 4 in her native Atlanta.

Knight eventually joined her brother and cousins to form Gladys Knight and the Pips, a family affair that earned her millions of fans around the world with a string of hits in the late ’60s and early ’70s.

Knight told Brown, “My mom told me as I matured, that what I was doing and the voice I had was a gift from God, and that was always our foundation.”

But even after 38 albums, seven Grammys and 11 American Music Awards, the Hall of Fame singer refuses to rest those famous pipes. She recently collaborated with producer and “American Idol” judge Randy Jackson on a new record.

Knight said, “This music business is – it’s amazing. It’s like starting all over.”

And Knight is still excited, saying, “(The music business anables me) to still do what I do, be contemporary, you know, and have fun, and enjoy a whole new genre of music, which is what I’ve had to do all of these years, through five of these different eras. So, we had to come through all those eras in order to still be here today.”