We would like to send our condolences to the family of gospel legend Marie Knight. Knight who came to prominence in the 1940s while touring with Sister Rosetta Tharpe, died Sunday at a Harlem nursing home of complications from pneumonia, according to her manager, Mark Carpentieri. She was 84 [source] We would like to send our condolences to the family of gospel legend Marie Knight. Knight who came to prominence in the 1940s while touring with Sister Rosetta Tharpe, died Sunday at a Harlem nursing home of complications from pneumonia, according to her manager, Mark Carpentieri. She was 84 [source]