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Celebrated for her fierce guitar playing and swinging gospel music, singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe became a veritable legend — and a 2018 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee. Throughout the 1930s and ‘40s, Sister Rosetta performed gospel in the morning and swing music at the Cotton Club at night to inevitably become a major influence on rock ‘n’ roll’s earliest icons. This play with music chronicles her first rehearsal with a young protégée, Marie Knight, as they prepare for a tour that would establish them as one of the great duet teams in musical history. Marie and Rosetta’s compelling life stories combined with roof-raising, heart-rending gospel songs set the stage for an inspiring evening at the theatre.

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ADVISORY: Marie and Rosetta contains mild adult language and mature themes. In addition to singing their hearts out, the characters face issues of racial prejudice, marital strife and other mature themes that ar

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Marie Knight (June 1, 1925 – August 30, 2009) was an American gospel and R&B singer.

She was born Marie Roach in Sanford, Florida but grew up in Newark, New Jersey. Her father was a construction worker and the family were members of the Church of God in Christ. She first toured as a singer in 1939 with Frances Robinson, an evangelist. She married preacher Albert Knight in 1941; they were later divorced.

In 1946, she made her first recordings, for Signature Records, as a member of The Sunset Four.(aka.The Sunset Jubilee Singers) Shortly afterwards, Sister Rosetta Tharpe saw her singing at the Golden Gate Auditorium in Harlem, on a bill with Mahalia Jackson, and invited Knight to join her on tour. Tharpe recognized "something special" in Marie's contralto voice. Knight continued to record and perform with Tharpe through the 1940s, sometimes acting out the parts of "the Saint and the Sinner", with Tharpe as the saint and Knight as the sinner. Among their successes were the songs "Beams of Heaven", "Didn't it Rain", and "Up

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Marie Knight (June 1, 1925 – August 30, 2009) was an American gospel and R&B singer.

She was born Marie Roach was born June 1, 1925, in Brooklyn, N.Y. and raised in Newark, N.J. When she was 5, her parents lifted her up on a table during a church service to sing "Doing All the Good We Can." By 9, she was a soloist in her church youth choir and taught herself to play piano. With a voice that one recent reviewer described as "a natural wonder, an unadorned, powerful instrument," Knight began her career touring the national gospel circuit as a singer in 1939 with evangelist Frances Robinson.

On Dec. 25, 1941, she married Albert Knight, a Corpus Christi, Tex., preacher, after a four-day romance. They divorced eight years later, because Ms. Knight said she was more interested in a musical career than being a preacher's wife.

In 1946, she made her first recordings, for Signature Records, as a member of The Sunset Four. Shortly afterwards, Sister Rosetta Tharpe saw her singing at the Golden Gate Auditorium in Harlem, on a bill with Mahalia Jackson, and invited Knight to