Biography
Sometimes the performers are enough one hit to become famous. Gloria Geinor, whose songs I Will Survive and Never Can Say Goodbye still relate to their number on the rumor around the world. She continued to record albums, but no track reached such stunning popularity.Childhood and youth
The nee Gloria Fowell was born on September 7, 1947 in Newark, New Jersey, in the family of Daniel Fowel and Quini Mai Prstor. Baby's education was engaged in grandmother. She often listened to the radio, and his father played at Ukulele and spoke at night clubs with a Step'n'Fetchit group. So formed the musical taste of the future star disco.
Embed from getty imagesSurrounded by five Brothers, Fowel grew by the Timber. Once, talented boys joined the quartet and began to sing in the genre of gospel. Gloria and her brother Arthur "left behind" - as the only girl and as the youngest child in the family. It is noteworthy that later, it was Arthur who became a sister manager.
"I dreamed of singing all my youth, but no one in the family guess this," the singer writes in his biography "I survive."In order not to call the negative, the girl began to play in the clubs Newark. A few years later, in 1971, began a professional career.
Music
In the early 1960s, the girl sang in the R'n'B-group Soul Satisfiers, and in 1965, under the pseudonym Gloria Gyanor recorded the debut song She'll Be Sorry / Let Me Go Baby. Success was waiting for the singer 10 years later, when she signed a contract with Columbia Records. The fruit of cooperation was the album Never Can Say Goodbye (1975).One side of the plate was the songs of Honey Bee, Reach Out, I'll Be There and the capital Never Can Say Goodbye, "blind" with each other. This 19-minute dance marathon turned out to be extremely popular, especially in clubs. Each track became a hit and played an important role in the formation of disco.
Taking advantage of the success of the debut album, Gloria Heinor released Experience Gloria Gaynor in the same 1975. Many songs from him led the dance charts and achieved international success. But the best composition was waiting for the singer in 1978.
At the end of 1978, Love Tracks album came out with the main hit I Will Survive. The text tells about the woman who appeals to the former lover and says that he can live without him. The song has become something like a hymn of female liberation.
It is noteworthy that I Will Survive was first recorded on the side "b", that is, it was understood as the appendage to the main song Substitute. Boston DJ Jack King once said:
"I can't believe that the record company buried this masterpiece on the side" b ". I again and again put this track with my listeners, and they go crazy! "Hearing his opinion, a recording company in the following publications Love Tracks put I Will Survive to the side "A". Jack King From 1979 to 1981, the Disco Masters award was honored in recognition of its importance in the promotion of Hit Gloria Gyanor.
For the sake of I Will Survive, the Grammy introduced a separate nomination, which, besides 1980, was not met on the award, the "best disco-style entry". Also, the track took 492th place in the list of "500 greatest songs of all time" according to the magazine Rolling Stone and 97th - in the magazine Billboard All-Time Hot 100. TV channel VH1 in 2000 put I Will Survive for the 1st position In the top 100 of the greatest dance songs, where the track remains now.
I Will Survive tried hundreds of times: Rock band Cake, singers Dian Ross, Robbie Williams, Shatai Savazh and Larisa Valley. Gloria Heinor even starred in the clip along with the Russian executor.
Success comparable to I Will Survive, achieved the song I Am What I Am (1983), which became the unlawful anthem of the LGBT community.
Personal life
In the personal life of Gloria Geinor there was only one man - Linwood Simon. Lovers won in 1979 and, having lived life-saturated life and stormy reconciliations, divorced in 2005.
Embed from getty imagesSince then, the singer has not covered the novels. The reason for this is deep religiosity, to which Geinor was imbued in 1982.
Gloria Heinor now
In 2018, the singer survived a dangerous operation, during which the spine was broken and they sprung. Such measures are a consequence of injury obtained in 1978 on the scene. The painful procedure did not affect the vocal data of Gloria Gyanor: in 2019, she released the Testimony album, the 18th in discography.Despite the old age (September 7, 2019, Heinor celebrated the 72nd birthday), the singer continues to speak. Photo from concerts, she lays out in "Instagram".
Discography
- 1975 - "NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE"
- 1977 - "Glorious"
- 1978 - "Love Tracks"
- 1979 - "I Have A Right"
- 1980 - "Stories"
- 1981 - "I Kinda Like Me"
- 1982 - "Gloria Gaynor"
- 1984 - "I Am Gloria Gaynor"
- 1986 - "The Power Of Gloria Gaynor"
- 1992 - "Love Affair"
- 1995 - "I'll be there"
- 1997 - "The Answer"
- 2002 - "I Wish You Love"
- 2013 - "We Will Survive"
- 2019 - "Testimony"