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Gloria Gaynor
Gloria Fowles, known professionally as Gloria Gaynor, is an American singer, best known for the disco era hits "I Will Survive" (1978) which is one of the best-selling singles in history to date, having sold over 15 million copies worldwide, and "Let Me Know " (1979), "I Am What I Am" (1983), and her version of "Never Can Say Goodbye" (1974). She received the Kennedy Center Honor in 2025.
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entertainment · American singer (born 1943) · singer · television actor · composer · also Gloria Gaynor, Gaynor
Born 7 September 1949 · Q228918
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2026· 7 entries
Public attention spiked: 4,118 Wikipedia readers in one day, 6.2× the usual 659, with 0 article edits. Coverage that week: “Sylvester Stallone, KISS & Gloria Gaynor Honored At White House Kennedy Center Ceremony | APT Niccolo Fabi (RVWqEXX4qH)” (Mshale).
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ITVX: 'Gaynor the superstar': Long-time friend and collaborator of Bonnie Tyler pays tribute to singer
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ABC: Diario de una novata en D23 (II): Disneyland, ver a Anne Hathaway o cantar con Gloria Gaynor
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Mshale: LIVE! Gloria Gaynor At The Tribeca Film Festival Ashley Mcbryde (7bK5Yhngoe)
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HELLO! Magazine: Where is 70s icon Gloria Gaynor today? The 'I will survive singer' then and now
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The Guardian: ‘Beyoncé’s Crazy in Love makes you move your body’: Gloria Gaynor’s honest playlist
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2025· 7 entries
Released album “We Will Survive”.
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Decider: 'The View' Host Ana Navarro Implores Gloria Gaynor To Turn Down Trump's Kennedy Center Honor: "Don't Do It, Gloria!"
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President Donald Trump named Gaynor as one of the honorees for the annual Kennedy Center Honors, to be presented in December 2025
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Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (2025).
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Released ep “Happy Tears”.
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American Songwriter: Disco Icon Gloria Gaynor Releases Response to “I Will Survive” Over Four Decades Later
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Gaynor released "Fida Known", the lead single to her EP "Happy Tears" and her first solo release since 2019
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2023· 4 entries
American Songwriter: A Revealing New Documentary Highlighting the Life and Career of Gloria Gaynor Is Heading to Theaters
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Yahoo: Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive: What Happened to the Grammy-Winning Singer?
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People: Watch the Trailer to Gloria Gaynor's Inspiring Documentary: 'Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive' (Exclusive)
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Entertainment Weekly: Gloria Gaynor praises Madonna's 'excellent taste in music' after her cover of 'I Will Survive'
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2022· 1 entry
Gaynor competed in season eight of The Masked Singer as "Mermaid" who rode around on a giant clam-like vehicle that the Men in Black had to push around
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2021· 2 entries
Released album “Disco Funk”.
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Gaynor returned to disco music when she recorded "Can't Stop Writing Songs About You" with Australian singer Kylie Minogue for the reissue of Minogue's fifteenth studio album Disco entitled Disco: Guest List Edition
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2019· 2 entries
Released album “Testimony”.
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Released album “The Best Disco Album in the World... Ever!”.
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2017· 3 entries
Awarded New Jersey Hall of Fame (2017).
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Gaynor performed with her band at the Library of Congress' celebration of disco music at Bibliodiscotheque, a disco dance party in the Great Hall of the Thomas Jefferson Building
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Made a cameo appearance as a flight attendant in a Capital One commercial, while Samuel L
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2016· 1 entry
"I Will Survive" was selected for induction into the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry
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2015· 4 entries
Gaynor was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Music by Dowling College
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For the film The Martian, where it is used at the end as the credits roll
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Released ep “Never Can Say Goodbye (remix)”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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2014· 3 entries
Released album “Gloria Gaynor Forever”.
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Released album “The Best Of (remastered version)”.
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Released album “The Album”.
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2012· 2 entries
Released album “I Will Survive”.
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“It feels great to have such a song like that because I get kids five and six years old telling me they like the song, and then people seventy-five and eighty. It”
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2010· 1 entry
Appeared on Last Comic Standing and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
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2008· 3 entries
Released album “The Disco Queen”.
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Released ep “Gloria Gaynor: The Hits”.
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Released album “Ao Vivo - Festival De Verao Salvador”.
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2007· 3 entries
Released album “Double Gold: Le Double Album d’Or”.
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Released album “Christmas Presence”.
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Released album “I Am What I Am: And More Reloaded Hits”.
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2006· 2 entries
Released album “All the Hits: Remixed”.
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Released album “Barry White & Gloria Gaynor”.
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2005· 3 entries
Gaynor was honored twice when she and her music were inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame, in the "Artist" category, along with fellow disco artists Chic and Sylvester
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Released album “Gloria Gaynor: Best of Collection”.
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Released album “The Ultimate Collection”.
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2004· 1 entry
Gaynor re-released her 1997 album The Answer (also released under the title What a Life) as a follow-up to her successful album I Wish You Love
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2002· 2 entries
Released album “I Wish You Love”.
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Releasing her first album in more than 15 years, I Wish You Love
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2001· 4 entries
Released album “The Gloria Gaynor Album”.
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Released album “The Very Best Of”.
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Gaynor performed "I Will Survive" at the 30th Anniversary concert for Michael Jackson
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Released album “I Will Survive: The Very Best of Gloria Gaynor”.
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2000· 6 entries
Released album “I Will Survive: The 20th Anniversary Collection”.
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Released album “20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Gloria Gaynor”.
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Released ep “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You”.
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Released album “Celebrate 2000”.
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Released album “El Album”.
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Released album “The Album: Most Famous Hits”.
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1999· 6 entries
Released album “I Am What I Am”.
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Released album “Classic Gloria Gaynor”.
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Released album “The Best of Gloria Gaynor, Volume 1”.
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Released album “Gold”.
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Released album “The Best of Gloria Gaynor”.
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Released ep “Reach Out, I’ll Be There (remix by Aex Nathale)”.
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1998· 4 entries
Released album “I Will Survive: The Anthology”.
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Released album “Master series”.
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Released album “It’s My Time”.
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Released album “Their Greatest Hits”.
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1997· 2 entries
Released album “The Answer”.
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Released album “All the Best”.
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1996· 2 entries
Released album “Soul Legends: Gloria Gaynor”.
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Released album “Picture disc”.
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1995· 1 entry
Released album “I’ll Be There”.
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1994· 1 entry
Released album “Best of Gloria Gaynor”.
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1993· 1 entry
Released album “The Very Best of Gloria Gaynor”.
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1992· 3 entries
Released album “Love Affair”.
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Released album “Love Songs”.
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Released album “The Collection”.
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1990· 1 entry
Released album “Gloria Gaynor ’90”.
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1989· 1 entry
Released album “Never Can Say Goodbye”.
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1986· 1 entry
Released album “The Power”.
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1984· 1 entry
Released album “I Am Gloria Gaynor”.
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1983· 1 entry
Released album “Gloria Gaynor”.
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1982· 1 entry
Having looked into a wide variety of faiths and religious movements, she became a Christian and began to distance herself from a past she considered to be sinful
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1981· 1 entry
Released album “I Kinda Like Me”.
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1980· 2 entries
Released album “Stories”.
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And again in 1981, Gaynor released two disco albums that were virtually ignored in the United States due to the backlash against disco, which began late in 1979
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1979· 3 entries
Released album “I Have a Right”.
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For the cult vampire film Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula, which featured several of disco songs
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“Let Me Know (I Have a Right)”
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1978· 2 entries
Released album “Love Tracks”.
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Released album “Park Avenue Sound”.
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1977· 1 entry
Released album “Glorious”.
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1976· 1 entry
Released album “I’ve Got You”.
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1975· 2 entries
Released album “Experience”.
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Released ep “Investigacion de mercado”.
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1973· 1 entry
When she was signed to Columbia Records by Clive Davis
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1960· 1 entry
Where Gaynor attended South Side High School; she graduated in 1961
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1949· 1 entry
Born 1949-09-07.
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