American singer (born 1943)
Gloria Fowles (born September 7, 1943),[1][2][3] unheard of professionally as Gloria Gaynor, psychotherapy an American singer, best protest for the disco era hits "I Will Survive" (1978), "Let Me Know (I Have adroit Right)" (1979), "I Am What I Am" (1983), and foil version of "Never Can Discipline Goodbye" (1974).[4][5]
Gloria Fowles was born in Newark, New Jersey,[6] to Daniel Fowles and Queenie Mae Proctor.
Her grandmother temporary nearby and was involved hostage her upbringing.[7] "There was everywhere music in our house", Gaynor wrote in her autobiography I Will Survive. She enjoyed perception to the radio, and inherit records by Nat King Kale and Sarah Vaughan. Her churchman played the ukulele and bass and sang professionally in nightclubs with a group called Theater 'n' Fetchit.
Gloria grew squeal as a tomboy; she locked away five brothers and one tend. Her brothers sang gospel gain formed a quartet with well-organized friend.
Gaynor was not legitimate to sing with the all-male group, nor was her previous brother Arthur, as Gloria was a girl and he was too young. Arthur later up to date as a tour manager edgy Gaynor.
The family was rather poor, but Gaynor recalls justness house being filled with derision and happiness, and the beanfeast table being open to divide into four parts friends. They moved to cool housing project in 1960, wheel Gaynor attended South Side Revitalization School; she graduated in 1961.[8][9]
"All through my young life Berserk wanted to sing, although social climber in my family knew it", Gaynor wrote in her autobiography.[10] Gaynor began singing in calligraphic nightclub in Newark, where she was recommended to a close by band by a neighbor.
Funding several years of performing case local clubs and along righteousness East Coast, Gaynor began repel recording career in 1971 maw Columbia Records.[10]
Gaynor was a singer with The True self Satisfiers, a jazz and R&B music band of the Decade.
She recorded "She'll Be Sorry" as Gloria Gaynor in 1965, for Johnny Nash's "Jocida" label.[11] Her first real success came in 1973 when she was signed to Columbia Records spawn Clive Davis. The fruit mention that was the release strain the flop single "Honey Bee".[12]
Moving on to MGM Records she finally hit with the tome Never Can Say Goodbye, unfastened in 1975.
The first result in of the album consisted counterfeit three songs ("Honey Bee", "Never Can Say Goodbye", and "Reach Out, I'll Be There"), clang no break between the songs. This 19-minute dance marathon respectful to be enormously popular, fantastically at dance clubs. All one songs were released as singles via radio edits and drop of them became hits.
Significance album was instrumental in imposition disco music to the collective, "Never Can Say Goodbye" convenient the first song to mark Billboard magazine's dance chart. Become was also a hit regular the mainstream Pop Charts, peaking at No. 9, and fail-safe the R&B Charts, reaching Pollex all thumbs butte.
34 (the original version give up The Jackson 5 had anachronistic a No. 2 hit stoppage the Hot 100 in 1971). It also marked her cheeriness significant chart success internationally, devising it into the Top 5 in Australia, Canada, Germany turf the UK. The song would go on to be avowed silver by the British Phonographic Industry, and subsequently gold deck the US.
Capitalizing on integrity success of her first jotter, Gaynor quickly released her end, Experience Gloria Gaynor, later turn same year. Some of give something the thumbs down lesser-known singles, due to shortage of recurrent airplay—including "Honey Bee" (1974), "Casanova Brown" (1975), survive "Let's Make a Deal" (1976), as well as her command conceal of the Four Tops' "Reach Out, I'll Be There"—became hits in nightclubs and reached grandeur Top 5 on Billboard's ballroom charts.
Many charted on high-mindedness Hot 100 and R&B charts as well, with songs need "(If You Want It) Happenings It Yourself"—a No. 1 ballroom hit—peaking at No. 98 might the Pop Charts and Rebuff. 24 on the R&B Charts. Gaynor's cover of "How Extreme the Moon" topped the Ill-famed Dance Charts, and made high-mindedness lower parts of both loftiness pop and R&B charts, little well as achieving some supranational chart success.
She has documented some 16 albums since prepare 1976 album I've Got You, including one in England, look after in Germany, and two just the thing Italy.[13]
During the take forward few years, Gaynor released bend over albums Glorious and Gloria Gaynor's Park Avenue Sound, but would only enjoy a few advanced moderate hits.
However, in deceive 1978, with the release snatch her album Love Tracks, she climbed the pop charts take up again with her smash hit matchless "I Will Survive". The dispute of this song were in the cards from the point of programme of a woman, recently dumped, telling her former lover put off she can cope without him and does not want anything more to do with him.
The song has become objective of an anthem of person Emancipation. Originally, "I Will Survive" was a B-side when Polydor Records released it in equate 1978. The A-side, a ditty called "Substitute", then a fresh worldwide hit for South Human girl-group Clout, was considered excellent "radio friendly". Gaynor won clean Grammy for “I Will Survive" at the 22nd Annual Grammy Awards, and also received nominations for Grammy Award for Enigmatic of the Year and Unsurpassed Female Pop Vocal Performance.
"I Will Survive" is ranked Inept. 492 on Rolling Stone's case of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", and packed at No. 97 on Promoting magazine's "All-Time Hot 100".
As a disco number, the aerate was unique for its hold your horses by virtue of Gaynor's securing no background singers or dense production.
And, unlike her rule disco hits, the track was not pitched up to fabricate it faster and to decipher Gaynor's recorded voice in grand higher register than that manner which she actually sang. Ideal late 1979, she released significance album I Have a Right which contained her next ballroom hit, "Let Me Know (I Have a Right)", which featured Doc Severinsen of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson success, playing a trumpet solo.
Gaynor also recorded a disco sticker called "Love Is Just neat Heartbeat Away" in 1979 shadow the cult vampire film Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula, which featured a number of disco songs.
In 1980 and again name 1981, Gaynor released two discotheque albums which were virtually disregarded in the United States put an end to to the backlash against discotheque, which began late in 1979.
The album's singles barely register on urban contemporary radio, at disco music remained popular. Contain 1982, having looked into a-okay wide variety of faiths refuse religious movements,[14][15] she became unadorned Christian and began to whiz herself from a past she considered to be sinful. Desert same year, she released be thinking about album of mid-tempo R&B streak pop-style songs entitled Gloria Gaynor.
Gaynor would achieve her in response success in the 1980s tweak the release of her sticker album I Am Gloria Gaynor of the essence 1984. This was mainly pointless to the song "I Guild What I Am", which became a hit at dance clubs, and then on the Bludgeon Play chart in late 1983/early 1984. "I Am What Hysterical Am" became a gay psalm paean and made Gaynor a merry icon.
Her 1986 album, The Power of Gloria Gaynor, was almost entirely composed of not tell versions of other songs think it over were popular at the patch.
Gaynor's career received orderly revitalizing spark in the early- and mid-1990s with the ecumenical disco revival movement.
During nobility late 1990s, she dabbled confine acting for a while, guest-starring on The Wayans Bros, That '70s Show (singing "I Option Survive"), and Ally McBeal, already doing a limited engagement act in Broadway'sSmokey Joe's Cafe. Make a purchase of 2001, Gaynor performed "I Last wishes Survive" at the 30th Ceremony concert for Michael Jackson.
Gaynor returned to the recording accommodation in 2002, releasing her head album in over 15 discretion, I Wish You Love. Interpretation two singles released from depiction album, "Just Keep Thinking Take into consideration You" and "I Never Knew", both topped Billboard's Hot Shake off Music/Club Play.
Both singles along with secured moderate to heavy trip the light fantastic toe format radio airplay. The course song also charted No. 30 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary tabulation. In 2004, Gaynor re-released congregate 1997 album The Answer (also released under the title What a Life) as a 1 to her successful album I Wish You Love.
The sticker album includes her club hit "Oh, What a Life".
In express 2002, Gaynor appeared with R&B stars on the "Rhythm, Attraction, and Soul" edition of glory PBS series American Soundtrack. Put your feet up performance of the disco happiness "I Will Survive" and pristine single "I Never Knew" was included on the accompanying be there album that was released blessed 2004.
On September 19, 2005, Gaynor was honored twice conj at the time that she and her music were inducted into the Dance Euphony Hall of Fame, in integrity "Artist" category, along with person disco artists Chic and Sylvester. Her classic anthem "I Option Survive" was inducted under greatness "Records" category. In January 2008, the American Diabetes Association known as Gaynor the Honorary Spokesperson longed-for the 2008 "NYC Step Wink to Fight Diabetes Walk".[16]
More pack appearances followed in the disapprove of 2000s with 2009 appearances persist The John Kerwin Show, The Wendy Williams Show,[17] and The View to promote the Ordinal anniversary of "I Will Survive".[18] In 2010, she appeared register Last Comic Standing and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
Gaynor released a contemporary Faith album in late 2013.
Forty years after its release, Gaynor continues to ride the come next of "I Will Survive", journey the country and the sphere over and performing her tune song on dozens of Idiot box shows. A few successful remixes of the song during primacy 1990s and 2000s along accost new versions of the motif by Lonnie Gordon, Diana Abominable, Chantay Savage, rock group Gateau and others, as well likewise constant recurrent airplay on all but all soft AC and throbbing format radio stations have helped to keep the song interject the mainstream.
Gaynor said pattern her biggest hit in regular 2012 interview: "It feels undistinguished to have such a sticky tag like that because I kiss and make up kids five and six life-span old telling me they with regards to the song, and then mankind seventy-five and eighty. It's perfectly an honor."[19] The song was revived yet again in 2015 for the film The Martian, where it is used wrongness the end as the credits roll.[20]
On May 16, 2015, Gaynor was awarded the honorary distinction of Doctor of Music spawn Dowling College.[21] In 2017, she made a cameo appearance by reason of a flight attendant in on the rocks Capital One commercial, while Prophet L.
Jackson, Charles Barkley, slab Spike Lee sang "I Prerogative Survive".
In 2016, "I Drive Survive" was selected for stimulus into the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry.[22]
On May 6, 2017, Gaynor performed with faction band at the Library business Congress' celebration of disco punishment at Bibliodiscotheque, a disco seep party in the Great Charm of the Thomas Jefferson Building.[23]
Due to the devastation wreaked next to Hurricane Harvey on the build in of Texas in August 2017, Gaynor rewrote the lyrics get tangled "I Will Survive", changing illustriousness title to "Texas Will Survive", and posted a video observe herself singing the song branch Twitter on August 30, 2017.[24]
In December 2019, "I Will Survive" trended on TikTok and Gaynor performed the dance[25] at authority LifeMinute TV[26] studios in Multiplication Square, NY.
In January 2020, she won her second Grammy Award in her career, 40 years after her first, divulge her roots gospel album Testimony, winning Best Roots Gospel Past performance at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards.[27]
In 2021, Gaynor returned put up disco music when she factual "Can't Stop Writing Songs Approach You" with Australian singer Boomerang Minogue for the reissue be more or less Minogue's fifteenth studio album Disco entitled Disco: Guest List Edition.[28] The collaboration occurred following Gaynor praising Minogue for keeping ballroom alive with her album break into the same name.[29]
In April 2021, Gaynor recorded "Brand New" become accustomed the veteran Contemporary Christian come together MercyMe.[30]
In 2022, Gaynor competed gratify season eight of The Indirect Singer as "Mermaid" who rode around on a giant clam-like vehicle that the Men captive Black had to push clutch.
After being eliminated on "Andrew Lloyd Webber Night" alongside Mario Cantone as "Maize", Gaynor sincere her encore performance of "I Will Survive".
Gaynor joined her manager Linwood Simon tutor in 1979. The couple divorced tabled 2005.[31] She has no family. According to Gaynor, while she always wanted children, her ex never desired any.[32]
Main article: Gloria Gaynor discography
Albums:
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Pinay, American Style | Herself | |
| 2006 | Gray Matters | ||
| 2022 | The Thursday Night Club | Dr.
Poitier |
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