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  Encyclopedia: Gloria Gaynor
Gloria Gaynor (real name Gloria Fowles, born September 7, 1949 in Newark, New Jersey) is a singer best-known for the disco hits I Will Survive (Hot 100 #1, 1979) and Never Can Say Goodbye (Hot 100 #9, 1974).
Gaynor was a singer with the Soul Satisfiers, a jazz/pop band, in the 1960s.
Lavish, luminous, a powerhouse performer, GLORIA GAYNOR exploded onto the scene with the first big Disco hit, "NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE." It was the title track to her 1973 album, the first album of non-stop programmed dance music and this would pretty much change the face of the record industry.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gloria-Gaynor   (1468 words)

  
 Owen Keehnen Interviews Gloria Gaynor
Gloria Gaynor was crowned the Queen of Disco in 1979, hosted The World's Largest Disco at Madison Square Garden, and sold out The Palladium.
I Will Survive is Gloria Gaynor's new autobiography covering her poor but loving upbringing, signing to Columbia Records at 17, her meteoric rise to the top and years of fame which eventually caused her to reject the decadence all around her.
Gloria Gaynor: Well, it was a request that came from Harper Collins in England in 1994.
www.queerculturalcenter.org /Pages/Keehnen/Gaynor.html   (1355 words)

  
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Gloria also had two abortions before she was 21 and carried the shame and guilt with her for many years.
Gaynor became seriously rich at the turn of the decade and being the hottest ticket on the club scene led to a dark period personally and another downward spiral for her recording career.
Gloria left Linwood briefly before his healing process began but by the early 1990's their relationship was stronger than ever and both were deeply committed to each other.
www.discomuseum.com /GloriaGaynor.html   (3893 words)

  
 'Beyond surviving' - interview with Gloria Gaynor (Gloria Gaynor's greatest hit: 'I will survive')
If you're not sure who Gloria Gaynor is, you probably know her greatest hit song, "I Will Survive." Still a disco favourite, it earned her the title 'First Lady of Disco'.
But the Gloria Gaynor who sang this song to such admiration in 1979 is not the Gloria Gaynor that is singing it now.
Gloria's new life and faith have meant that she has had to make sacrifices.
www.soon.org.uk /page32.htm   (521 words)

  
 hip online: artists: gloria gaynor
In keeping with the theme of #1, Gloria Gaynor was the first to record an album especially for clubs, and the first to do a mega-extended dance medley party mix, releasing 12” dance singles that are now high-end collectors items.
Gloria even made the time to write an autobiography entitled, “I Will Survive” (St. Martin’s Press) that is a revealing trip through her journey in life.
Whatever Gloria Gaynor sets out to accomplish you can be sure that it will have a positive transformation in the art of music and life as everything she touches is with her deep spirit.
www.hiponline.com /artist/music/g/gaynor_gloria   (579 words)

  
 Gloria Gaynor @ Disco-Disco.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
As she says herself; "Gloria Gaynor is a Christian woman, a wife, an entertainer who try to be, and wants to be, positive and encouraging to people and all of her relationships and encounters".
Gloria was born in Newark, New Jersey on September 7, 1949.
Gloria is also involved in helping underprivileged children in the inner-cities, inspiring them and teaching them to use their skills in overcoming the many challenges and obstacles that they face.
www.disco-disco.com /artists/gloria.html   (5940 words)

  
 Gloria Gaynor (Interview) DiscoMusic.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Gloria Gaynor was born on Sept. 7, 1949 in Newark, New Jersey which is just a twenty-minute train ride from New York City.
Gaynor's reasoning for the continuous flow of music was that she loved to dance, but hated to be restrained by a three and a half-minute format.
Not only did Gloria Gaynor and her husband know that "I Will Survive" was going to be a hit song, but they knew that everyone was going to be able to relate to it and felt it had "timeless" lyrics.
www.discomusic.com /people-more/36_0_11_0_M   (2495 words)

  
 Gloria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gloria in Excelsis Deo, the main doxology of the Roman Catholic Mass
Gloria, Oriental Mindoro, a municipality in the Philippines
Gloria Stivic, a fictional character played by Sally Struthers on the situation comedy All in the Family
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gloria   (195 words)

  
 An Interview With Gloria Gaynor!!! - Bible Basics
Gloria: What brought me into the light with Jesus when I was in an accident was recognition that I was not in control of anything and He is in control of everything.
Gloria: I wasn't afraid of being ridiculed, I was only concerned that their lack of understanding and/or spiritual awareness would keep them from sharing my freedom.
Gloria: I would say that although the grace of Jesus is absolutely free and you couldn't buy it if you wanted to, it's the most precious and expensive gift anyone has ever bought you; that it has already been bought for everyone, but must be prized above all others to be received.
www.bellaonline.org /articles/art5611.asp   (791 words)

  
 Gloria Gaynor - Book Gloria Gaynor for Corporate Events, Fund Raisers
It turned Gloria into not only one of the biggest stars in the world...winning her the following year's Grammy Award for Best Disco Record, but it turned her into an icon.
In 1984, she came out with the terrific album, "I AM WHAT I AM", with a title song of passionate affirmation strong enough to musically reunite a culture scattered by the closing of the clubs and the dark shadow that AIDS was now casting over city night life.
In her book, Gloria not only tells the reader how she survived, but how anyone can survive the struggles and heart aches that life all too often brings.
www.onlinetalent.com /Gloria_Gaynor_homepage.html   (767 words)

  
 Gloria Gaynor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Gloria Gaynor was the first diva of the Disco era, even before Donna Summer.
It's perfect, from the initial piano strings till the end, and gloria's voice shows all the melodrama of someone who was left behind.
In the 80's Gloria is on the charts once again with the song "I am what I am".Gloria is perfect, and the song shows that disco will be alive to the eternity.
www.geocities.com /SunsetStrip/Palms/9855/Gloria.html   (204 words)

  
 Gloria Gaynor : Experience Gloria Gaynor - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
Gloria Gaynor's excellent sophomore effort Experience Gloria Gaynor found the influential disco diva embracing the same format she had favored on her first album, Never Can Say Goodbye; side one is a nonstop three-song dance mix that clocks in at almost 19 minutes, whereas on side two, there are breaks between songs.
To her credit, Gaynor breaths new life into the standard and demonstrates that it can work remarkably well in a disco-soul setting.
Whether or not Gaynor is catering to dancefloors, the singer shows no signs of a sophomore slump on Experience Gloria Gaynor.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,91087,00.html   (248 words)

  
 PrideTime.com Music Reviews: Gloria Gaynor
G.G. Gloria was in town to promote the new CD and perform live at the surburban club Mission.
Gloria returns to the mainstream with a CD packed with radio-friendly tunes and club-ready anthems.
Gloria has captured the sounds of today – here filtered vocals, thumping beats and catchy melodies will sure cross-over and appeal to a younger audience.
www.pridetime.com /GloriaGaynor.htm   (462 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on I Never Knew [Maxi Single] - Gloria Gaynor at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Gaynor's confident vocal delivery of this catchy little tune shines on two excellent remixes and is wasted with two awful remixes.
Gaynor has reclaimed her status as dance floor diva in North America and — looking at the cover photo for I Never Knew -- she is looking better than ever (and way more glam than her Louise “Weezy” Jefferson look-a-like on the cover of Just Keep Thinking About You).
Forget the snippets; the success of Gaynor’s two domestic singles, as well as the willingness of DJ’s to play music from a mature artist who radiates sincerity and warmth, is the only positive indicator I need of good things to come.
www.epinions.com /content_74708061828   (918 words)

  
 Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive: The Anthology: Pitchfork Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Unfortunately, Love Tracks was Gloria's only truly great album; of her eight other albums, there were only maybe ten other songs of any importance (most of which are available on her debut, Never Can Say Goodbye).
So this Anthology, which documents Gaynor's career-- from her 1974 debut to her final release, 1981's I Kinda Like Me-- is a little disappointing.
The dance remix of "I Will Survive" is pointless, as the original is as dancy as one could ever hope it might be, and her rendition of "I've Got You Under My Skin" is dreadful, to say the least.
www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/g/gaynor_gloria/i-will-survive-the-anthology.shtml   (262 words)

  
 Station Avenue Productions with Gloria Gaynor
Gloria appeared in the television spectacular, "Celebration Of The '70s", with renditions of "I Will Survive" and "Never Can Say Goodbye" that showed she hadn't lost one Iota of her pcwer or her luster.
Gloria's just set out on a major European tour, which will run Immediately into a nine-c!ty tour of Australia.
Gloria Gaynor still lives in New Jersey with her husband of fifteen years.
www.stationave.com /bios.gloriagaynor.html   (740 words)

  
 I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor Songfacts
Gaynor sees this song as just a simple song about survival, regardless of what you have to overcome.
This was released as the B-side of another song called "Substitute." Gloria knew this would be the hit, but the president of her record company specifically ordered "Substitute" as the single.
Gloria put her efforts into promoting "I Will Survive," and when club DJs started playing it, radio stations caught on and it became a huge hit.
www.songfacts.com /detail.lasso?id=2451   (982 words)

  
 Gloria Gaynor News
By ANDREW JACOBS Published: November 30, 2005 The lights are low, the skaters are wearing spandex and Gloria Gaynor is hollering about her determination to survive.
Chic, Sylvester and Gloria Gaynor are to be inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame.
Grammy Award-winner Freddie Perren, who produced songs for Gloria Gaynor, the Jackson 5 and the "Saturday Night Fever" album, has died at the age of 61.
www.topix.net /who/gloria-gaynor   (562 words)

  
 Gloria Gaynor
Subsequently Gloria's version became number one on the charts in Australia after having been released from the soundcheck to the smash-hit movie shot there, "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert".
"I will Survive," in which Gloria Gaynor tells you not only how she survived, but how anyone can survive the struggle and heart ache that life all too often brings.
Gloria Gaynor still lives in New Jersey with her husband of twenty years.
www.marstalent.com /bio_gloria_gaynor.htm   (476 words)

  
 VH1.com : Gloria Gaynor : Biography
Although Gaynor enjoyed a few moderate hits, it wasn't until the release of 1979's aforementioned disco gem "I Will Survive" that Gaynor racked up her first true smash hit.
The song was awarded the first and only Grammy Award for Best Disco Recording in 1980 (the category was discontinued upon disco's fall from favor shortly afterward) and although Gaynor was unable to follow up "I Will Survive" with another sizeable hit, the track subsequently took on a life of its own.
Gaynor continues to issue albums and play shows (especially in Europe) and during the late '90s issued an autobiography (also titled I Will Survive), as well as appearing for a two-week run on Broadway's hit musical Smokey Joe's Café.
www.vh1.com /artists/az/gaynor_gloria/bio.jhtml   (199 words)

  
 Gloria Gaynor
You know, Gloria Gaynor gets a surprising amount of deference for a disco singer who was best known for covering familiar songs and had more flops than successes even during her commercial prime.
Gaynor also gets in one tune of her own, "I'm Still Yours." Same production crew and musicians as the debut.
Because Gaynor hasn't lost her voice, the project is marginally better than Martha Reeves' similar effort, but that's about all I can say for it.
www.warr.org /gaynor.html   (760 words)

  
 JR.com: Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive: The Anthology in Music: Disco:
It's almost a shame that Gaynor's output is defined by this one song.
Gaynor was one of the first "disco divas" and had a close relationship with her club audiences.
Best known for her exuberant, emotional 1979 disco anthem, "I Will Survive," which became a rallying cry for both women and gay men in the disco era, Gloria Gaynor broke new ground with tracks specifically produced and extended for dancing.
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 Gloria Gaynor Ringtones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Choose any Gloria Gaynor Ringtone from the monphonic or polyphonic sections to view the ringtone download instructions.
If the tone you are looking for is not listed in the Gloria Gaynor ringtones list, use the Tone Finder on the left to search for the ringtone using the title, not the artist.
Many recordings made by bands or used in modern soundtracks these days are covers of original artists work, and this may apply to a track originally associated with Gloria Gaynor.
www.zap-ringtones.co.uk /ringtones/GloriaGaynor.html   (446 words)

  
 Oldies.com : Gloria Gaynor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Gloria Fowles, 7 September 1949, Newark, New Jersey, USA.
A 1965 single, produced by Johnny Nash, preceded her spell as a member of the Soul Satisfiers.
Gaynor was discovered singing in a Manhattan nightclub by her future manager, Jay Ellis.
www.collectablesrecords.com /artist/view.cfm/id_2480.html   (319 words)

  
 Gloria Gaynor: Re-emerging - Emerging Music
Gloria Gaynor is re-emerging with her first worldwide album release in 15 years, “I Wish You Love” (Logic Records/BMG), available in stores September 10th.
While so many in that era have come and gone, living only in memory or caricature, Gloria has continued her career with live concerts and special performances.
Dance floor, big screen, small screen and…Broadway, too, in the longest running musical revue, “Smokey Joe’s Café.” Gloria has done more than survive, she continues to thrive and keep her fans delighted with new projects and new ways to experience her.
www.bellaonline.org /articles/art4807.asp   (531 words)

  
 BBC - London - Communicate - Gloria Gaynor
Born Gloria Fowles on Sept.7, 1949, in Newark, N.J., she was first discovered by Arista head Clive Davis, then head of MGM Records.
She still lives in New Jersey with her husband of 20 years, but she continues to tour the world, performing in more than 80 countries each year.
Gaynor works with numerous charities, including The United Cerebral Palsy Organization, the Rita Hayworth Gala for Alzheimer's, Revlon's Annual Walk For Life, and The Michael Bolton Foundation.
www.bbc.co.uk /london/communicate/gloria_gaynor.shtml   (438 words)

  
 Gloria Gaynor Lyrics / Songteksten / Songtexten / Album Covers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Gloria Gaynor - I Am What I Am Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
Gloria Gaynor - Reach Out I'll Be There
Gloria Gaynor - Stop in the Name of Love
www.sleurink.nl /artist/2846/lyrics/gloria_gaynor_songteksten.html   (135 words)

  
 Divazoo's Gloria Gaynor Collection
Of all of Gloria's many come back efforts, this has got to the the loveliest.
Sure, it might be like listening to your mom sing along to top 40 radio, but Gloria has enough of a presence to own these tunes.
CD 2 features music videos, gloria gaynor bio, song lyrics, and -- in an apparent attempt to corner that imporant soccer mom demographic -- a few Gloria Gaynor recipes.
members.shaw.ca /celestialjukebox/gloriadisco.htm   (1793 words)

  
 Gloria from LiveJournal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
My rush was hastened by the fact that I had to meet Gloria at Guilin for some dinner.
Topic: Gloria Steinem and Feminism Thesis: Throughout all of her work Gloria Steinem was a champion and a leader who was instrumental in changing how society viewed women and their rights.
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