Biography
The flourishing of creativity of the American performer Laura Branigan (Laura Branigan) fell in the 1980s, when the Summer Single Gloria entered the national dance charts and fixed on the top lines of the Billboard Hot chart. Then its compositions became soundtracks to popular artistic films and brought victory at the Tokyo Music Festival, as well as the Grammy Award and the ACADEMY Award.Childhood and youth
Laura Ann Branigan was born on July 3, 1952 in the United States and was the fourth child in the family of stock broker James and his wife Calleen O'Hara, winners of Irish roots. During the years of study in high school byram Hills, the girl was fascinated by theatrical productions and graduation class debuted on stage, playing in the musical "Pajama Game".
Embed from getty imagesIn the 1970s, Laura became a student of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, located in New York, and in parallel worked as a waitress to pay for housing and education and produce funds on outfits and life.
And the creative biography of Branigan began after acquaintance with the musicians of the Folk-Fall Meadow team, for whom Cane and Able wrote. After the group broke up, the girl worked in a number of music projects and as a back-vocalist appeared in the Leonard Cohen show during his tour in Europe in 1976.
Music
In 1979, Laura signed a contract with Atlantic Records. The first single Looking Out for Number One, as well as Tell Him and Fool's Affair fell into a dance chart. In 1982, having worked with the vocal teacher, the singer released the Branigan debut album with an energetic composition of All Night With Me, which became the 69th in the Billboard list.A real success was brought to her track Gloria, written by Umberto Totzi. Due to this incendiary composition of Laura, among the performers, Ronstadt Linda, Olivia Newton-John and Melissa Manchester was nominated for the Grammy Award, and the record was sold in the amount of 2 million copies. As a result, she received a platinum certificate.
In the spring of 1983, the singer's discography was replenished with a second solo album, which advanced the English-speaking version of the French Hita Martin Clemence Solitaire on the radio, discos and the vertex of American charts. And the track How Am I Supposed To Live Without You brought fame to the author Michael Bolton and, spending 3 weeks on the top of the charts, far dropped rivals in a special ranking of the Billboard magazine.
A year later, starring in the television series An American Girl In Berlin, Chips, "Knights" and Automan, Laura reached a peak of popularity by releasing the Self Control plate. The title song of the song has become the biggest success of the performer and led to the nomination for American Music Awards.
After a series of concerts, which were broadcast on the radio and were subsequently released on video tags, Branigan presented SPANish Eddie songs, Power Of Love, I Found Someone and others included in the Albums Hold Me, Touch and Laura Branigan. And in 1993, a cover version on Cher, Roxette and Patti Lavlass, as well as a duet with American actor David Hasnelhoff, used in the Malibu Savior TV Sewagers, sounded at the last studio plate.
Personal life
In the years of success, Laura preferred to hide the details of his personal life, but journalists knew that her first and only husband was a prosperous New York lawyer Larry Ross Kruk. In 1996, he fell ill with cancer and soon died suddenly, leaving the singer alone due to the lack of joint children.
In the following years, according to the American publication People, Branigan lived on the shore of the lake in Vincacer and met with the drummer, whose name was Tommy Bayokos.
Death
At the beginning of the XXI century, Laura performed by the Genis Joplin party in the Broadway Musicle, but periodic headaches prevented her fully in their role. And on the night of August 26, 2004, a tragedy occurred in the personal mansion of Branigan in East Quogue.The cause of the sustainable death of a 52-year-old singer, according to physicians, became aneurysm, affected by the artery of the ventricles and eventually hitting the brain.
Discography
- 1982 - "Branigan"
- 1983 - "Branigan 2"
- 1984 - "SELF CONTROL"
- 1985 - "HOLD ME"
- 1987 - "Touch"
- 1990 - "Laura Branigan"
- 1994 - "Over My Heart"