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4 unusual facts about Gloria Gaynor


Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands

The kingdom's national anthem is "I Am What I Am" by Gloria Gaynor.

Gloria Gaynor

Gaynor also recorded a disco song called "Love Is Just a Heartbeat Away" in 1979 for the vampire movie Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula which featured a number of disco songs.

While she continued to practice her singing, she worked many non-singing jobs in the years after high school, including a job at Bamberger's department store.

World's Largest Disco

The current event began as an annual occurrence in 1994, but it traces its history and name to a disco held in Buffalo in 1979, featuring The Trammps and Gloria Gaynor.


Gigi D'Amico

In 1995 he began a sound engineer course at Centro Professione Musica (CPM), while working as a sound engineer touring Sicily in support of several international artists, including Tom Harrell, Tonino Horta, Rickie Lee Jones, Gloria Gaynor, Temptation, Blonde Redhead, Warmers, and Uzeda.

Gracie Awards


Gloria Gaynor, Miri Ben-Ari, Dance Times Square, Onyx, Elisabeth Withers-Mendez, Dwana Smallwood, Girl Scouts Chorus of Nassau County, Taylor Swift, Dianne Reeves, Melissa Pabon Dancers, Darlin Garcia, The Stunners, Macy Gray

Green Brook Township, New Jersey

Gloria Gaynor (born 1949), Grammy award-winning singer best known for her song "I Will Survive".

Marina Kamen

Kamen has worked with numerous celebrities including Patti Labelle, Gloria Gaynor, and James Earl Jones.

Richie Kaczor

Perhaps Richie's most noticeable legacy to Disco while DJing at Studio 54 was his championing of Gloria Gaynor's track 'I Will Survive', a song which hit the charts and is widely accepted as a Disco anthem.

The Breakfast

Phish bassist Mike Gordon was in attendance and then joined the band for the encore and their cover of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive", which featured Gordon on bass, Spears on guitar, and Palmieri on vocals and dressed and singing as Tony Clifton.


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Experience Gloria Gaynor

The Soul music songs on side two of the album included a rendition of "What'll I Do", a well-received rendition of the Dionne Warwick hit, "Walk On By" and an example of Gloria Gaynor's own songwriting called "I'm Still Yours".