Published video “Self Control (Edit)”.
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Laura Branigan
Laura Ann Kruteck was an American singer. Her signature song, the platinum-certified 1982 cover of Umberto Tozzi's single "Gloria", stayed on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for 36 weeks, then a record for a female artist, peaking at No. 2. It also reached number one in Australia and Canada. In 1984, she reached number one in Canada and Germany and No. 4 in the U.S. with "Self Control". "Gloria" and "S…
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entertainment · American singer (1952–2004) · singer · stage actor · television actor · pianist · film actor · lyricist · recording artist · actor · musician · also Laura Branigan, Branigan
Born 3 July 1952 · Died 26 August 2004 · Q229550
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2026· 5 entries
Published video “Self Control”.
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Published video “Power of Love”.
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Published video “It's Been Hard Enough Getting Over You”.
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2024· 1 entry
“History serves a specific and indispensable rhetorical role”
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2023· 1 entry
Released album “Laura Branigan Live!”.
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2022· 1 entry
“[T]his historian who seeks to mine the various quarries of the past in the belief that good history is a good foundation for a better present and future.”
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2021· 3 entries
Released album “My Star”.
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Yahoo: Laura Branigan's rep calls it 'absolutely appalling' that 'Gloria' played before Trump riot
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Billboard: Laura Branigan Manager Calls Video of Trump Family Blasting ‘Gloria’ Before Right Wing D.C. Riots ‘Absolutely Appalling’
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2019· 1 entry
Released album “The Complete Atlantic Albums”.
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2018· 1 entry
Released album “Self Control”.
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2017· 1 entry
Yahoo: Correction: Laura Branigan obituary
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2010· 1 entry
Released album “Shine On: The Ultimate Collection”.
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2008· 1 entry
Released album “The Platinum Collection”.
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2005· 2 entries
Released ep “Rhino Hi-Five: Laura Branigan”.
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Released ep “Remember Me”.
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2004· 1 entry
Died 2004-08-26.
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2002· 2 entries
Released album “The Essentials”.
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Performed twice as Janis Joplin in Love, Janis, before dropping out of the role
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2001· 1 entry
Released album “Discomania”.
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2000· 1 entry
Released album “Greatest Hits Remix Collection”.
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1999· 3 entries
“(3 July 1941). Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed. Dejan Stojanovic in The Sun Watches the Sun, Game III, Sequence: “A Game”
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Released album “Gloria and Other Hits”.
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Released album “Back in Control”.
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1998· 1 entry
Released album “Satisfaction: The Best of Laura Branigan”.
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1995· 1 entry
Released album “The Best of Branigan”.
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1994· 1 entry
Larry Kruteck, Branigan's husband (m
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1993· 1 entry
Released album “Over My Heart”.
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1992· 2 entries
Released album “The Very Best of Laura Branigan”.
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Released album “The Best of Laura Branigan Volume 2”.
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1991· 1 entry
Released album “Laura Branigan in Concert”.
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1990· 1 entry
Followed by a concert at the Trump Regency Showroom in Atlantic City, New Jersey on July 14, and filmed for a syndicated U
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1989· 1 entry
Released album “All Night With Me”.
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1988· 2 entries
Released album “Greatest Hits 1982-1988”.
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Released album “The Best of Laura Branigan”.
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1987· 2 entries
Released album “Touch”.
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Released ep “The Hits”.
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1985· 3 entries
Released album “Hold Me”.
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Branigan performed the main theme for the mini-series Hollywood Wives, based on the Jackie Collins novel
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Released ep “Self Control”.
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1984· 6 entries
Awarded Tokyo Music Festival for The Lucky One (1984).
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Released album “Laura Branigan”.
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For a nationally syndicated radio special, and for a concert video
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"Self Control", the title track of Branigan's third album, peaked at No
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Won the Tokyo Music Festival with the song "The Lucky One"
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Reached number one in Canada and Germany and No
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1983· 3 entries
Released album “Branigan 2”.
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With her English-language version of "Solitaire", originally written and recorded by Martine Clemenceau, hitting the US top 10
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“How Am I Supposed to Live Without You”
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1982· 1 entry
Released album “Branigan”.
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1981· 1 entry
Released album “Silver Dreams”.
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1979· 2 entries
Branigan was signed by Ahmet Ertegun to Atlantic Records
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By Umberto Tozzi and a hit in Europe, was the second single
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1972· 2 entries
Studied at American Academy of Dramatic Arts (1972).
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Branigan formed the folk-rock band Meadow
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1952· 1 entry
Born 1952-07-03.
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1852· 1 entry
“The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon”
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