Gospel singer Marie Knight dies

Gospel singer Marie Knight has died in New York City aged 84, after suffering complications from pneumonia, her manager has confirmed.

She rose to fame while touring with Sister Rosetta Tharpe, singing hits such as Didn't It Rain, Beams Of Heaven and Up Above My Head.

They went on to become the most popular gospel artists of the 1940s.

In 2007 Knight released, Let Us Get Together, her first full-length album in more than 25 years.

Five years earlier she began work on a tribute to Tharpe, who died in 1973.

Knight was raised in Newark, New Jersey and began her career touring the national gospel circuit with evangelist Frances Robinson.