Merald "Bubba" Knight has lived in the Detroit area since the mid 1960s. He was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. Merald "Bubba" Knight Merald Woodlow "Bubba" Knight, Jr. (born September 4, 1942 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American R&B/soul singer, best known as a member of Gladys Knight & the Pips. The older brother of lead singer Gladys Knight, Bubba Knight served as the unofficial leader of the group, and was instrumental in handling the Pips' business matters. Gladys Knight & The Pips evolved out of The Pips. The original Pips formed in Atlanta in 1952, with
Isidore Singer French foreign office and was active in the campaign on behalf of Alfred Dreyfus. In 1893 he founded a short-lived biweekly called "La Vraie Parole" as a foil to the anti-Jewish "La Libre Parole". Singer moved to New York City in 1895 where he learned English and taught French, raising the money for the "Jewish Encyclopedia" he had envisioned. Over the course of his career, Singer also proposed many projects which never won backing, including a multi-million-dollar loan to aid the Jews of Eastern Europe, a Jewish university open to students of any background, various encyclopedias about secular topics, and