Gloria Gaynor
USA
Born: 07 September 1949
Years Active: 70, 80, 90, 2000
Genres: R&B, Electronic
Styles: Disco, Dance, R&B/Soul, Urban, Hip-Hop/Urban, Club/Dance
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Perhaps second only to Donna Summer, Gloria Gaynor has become one of the best-known female disco artists from the '70s due to the ongoing success of her monster 1979 hit (and subsequent "woman's anthem"), "I Will Survive." Born Gloria Fowles on September 7, 1949, in Newark, NJ, the singer (who began going by Gloria Gaynor by the early '70s), first sang as part of the obscure R&B outfit the Soul Satisfiers before being discovered by MGM Records head honcho Mike Curb (eventual leader of the Curb label and Lieutenant Governor of California), who d...
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