Gloria Tribute to Laura Branigan (1952 2004)
This Gloria music video is a tribute to Laura Branigan, a fourtime Grammy Award nominee, who died at the age of 52 from cerebral aneurysm in August 2004. Branigan s highoctane remake of Gloria (lyrics by Trevor Veitch) was a top disco hit of the 1980s. It stayed on the US Billboard Hot 100 for 36 weeks, a record for a solo female artist at the time. Gloria was in Branigan s words a character study of a girl that s running too fast for her own The song appeared in the 1983 movie Flashdance (starring Jennifer Beals Michael Nouri) but was not included in its soundtrack album. The original version of Gloria is a 1979 Italian pop song written and composed by Umberto Tozzi and Giancarlo Bigazzi. Video made by: fkwk101 (Yukon Audiovisual Workshop).
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