Curtis Knight
Curtis Knight
Top Songs
| 1 | You're Gonna Be Sorry | ||
| 2 | Gotta Have a New Dress | ||
| 3 | People Places and Things | ||
| 4 | It's up to You | ||
| 5 | Just Say No |
Albums
Jun 2022 • 8 songs
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Biography
If he is known at all, the Harlem-based '60s soul singer Curtis Knight is remembered for his connection to a pre-fame Jimi Hendrix. Knight met a down-on-his-luck Hendrix living in a New York City hotel. The singer gave the guitarist a spare axe and hired him to play with the Squires, Knight's band. A native of Kansas, Knight had previously spent time in California -- he appears in the film Pop Girl -- before relocating to New York, where he worked the circuit with the Squires, a workaday party R&B band. It's quite possible Knight saw something in Hendrix. Not long after Jimi j...