For several years Atlantic had difficulty classifying Branigan's powerful voice. In 1979, after a chance meeting with manager Sid Bernstein on her return from Europe, Branigan was signed by Ahmet Ertegun to Atlantic Records. He died of colon cancer on June 15, 1996. īranigan met attorney Larry Ross Kruteck (1936–1996) at a party in Manhattan in 1978, and they married in December of that year. Branigan preferred not to discuss her involvement with Meadow publicly.ĭuring the years after Meadow broke up, Branigan had various jobs, including a stint as one of Leonard Cohen's backup singers for his European tour in April–August 1976. The band broke up, after which Walker Daniels committed suicide. The record was not properly promoted and never re-released. In 1973 the group, with bass player Bob Valdez, released their debut album The Friend Ship, featuring the singles "When You Were Young", and "Cane and Able", which featured the hook line "Throw away your cane and you are able". In 1972, Branigan met acoustic guitarist Walker Daniels and his future wife Sharon Storm, and acoustic guitarist Chris Van Cleave, forming the folk-rock band Meadow.
īetween 19, Branigan attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, and supported herself by working as a waitress. She attended Byram Hills High School from 1966 to 1970, starring in the high school musical The Pajama Game in her senior year. īranigan was raised in Armonk, New York, and as a child attended a Catholic school in nearby Chappaqua. O'Connor) and Mary Conway (daughter of Francis J. Branigan's maternal grandparents were William O'Hare Jr. He died of a heart attack on March 10, 2022, aged 65. Her younger brother William "Billy" Branigan, who was also a musician, played guitar in Branigan's backing band early in her career and later contributed to her 1993 album Over My Heart as a co-producer, arranger, guitarist, bassist and backing vocalist, in addition to co-writing the track "Over You" with his sister. Laura Ann Branigan was born on July 3, 1952, in Mount Kisco, New York, near New York City, the fourth of five children born to Irish-American parents Kathleen O'Hare Branigan and James Branigan Sr., an account executive and mutual funds broker they later separated. Louis to publicly represent Branigan among the Blues fanbase during the 2019 Stanley Cup Playoffs, later stating her belief that Branigan and "Gloria" "will forever be intertwined" with the Blues and the city of St. Branigan's legacy manager and representative Kathy Golik embraced the trend and traveled to St. Louis Blues as their unofficial victory song while they completed a historic mid-season turnaround to win their first Stanley Cup in franchise history, leading to the song entering ice hockey lore as an "unlikely championship anthem". īranigan and her music saw renewed popularity and public interest in 2019 in the US after " Gloria" was adopted by the NHL's St. As she was recording new music and preparing a comeback to the music industry, she died at her home in August 2004 from a previously undiagnosed cerebral aneurysm. She returned to performing in the early 2000s, most notably appearing as Janis Joplin in the off-Broadway musical Love, Janis. Her chart success began to wane as the decade closed and after her last two studio albums Laura Branigan (1990) and Over My Heart (1993) garnered little attention, she generally retired from public life for the rest of the 1990s. In 1984, she won the Tokyo Music Festival with the song " The Lucky One". She also contributed songs to motion picture and television soundtracks, including the Grammy and Academy Award-winning Flashdance soundtrack (1983), the Ghostbusters soundtrack (1984), and Miami Vice (1984).
Her most successful studio album was 1984's platinum-selling Self Control.
2 hit " Ti amo" (1984), her return to the top 40 " The Power of Love" (1987), and " Shattered Glass" (1987), which reached the top 15 of the U.S.
Seeing her greatest level of success in the 1980s, Branigan's other singles included the Top 10 hit " Solitaire" (1983), the US Adult Contemporary Chart number one " How Am I Supposed to Live Without You" (1983), the Australian No. Both "Gloria" and "Self Control" were successful in the United Kingdom, making the Top 10 in the UK Singles Chart. 4 hit " Self Control", which was released by Italian singer and songwriter Raf the same year. In 1984, she reached number one in Canada and Germany with the U.S. Branigan's "Gloria" was a cover of a song written by Italian singer-songwriters Giancarlo Bigazzi and Umberto Tozzi. It also reached number one in Australia and Canada. Billboard Hot 100 for 36 weeks, then a record for a female artist, peaking at No. Her signature song, the platinum-certified 1982 single " Gloria", stayed on the U.S. Laura Ann Branigan (J – August 26, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter, and actress.
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