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Gladys Catherine Horton was an American R&B and pop singer. She is best known as the founder and lead vocalist of The Marvelettes. When Horton is just 15 years old, The Marvelettes released "Please Mr. Postman", which eventually hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Motown's first number one pop hit. She lost her lead vocalist role to Wanda Young in 1965 and eventually left the group in 1967.
Horton performed in the later years as Gladys Horton of the Marvelettes but remained semi-retired to take care of her disabled son. She officially announces her retirement from music in 2009, about a year before Horton suffered from a stroke that leading to her death on January 26, 2011 in a nursing home in Sherman Oaks, California.