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

    Sep 23, 2023 5 minutes
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    Beverley (left) and Cynthia Knight in 1976 and 2023. Later photograph: Pål Hansen/The Guardian. Styling: Andie Redman. Hair: Natasha John-Lewis. Makeup: Lan Nguyen-Grealis at Eighteen Management. Archive photograph: courtesy of Beverley Knight

    Born 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 Shoulda Woulda Coulda. As well as collaborating with , and being championed by and , she has held a parallel career in musical theatre, starring in , Cats and . Her older sister Cynthia has

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