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Laura Branigan (July 3, 1957 – August 26, 2004) was a popular American singer and actor|actress from Brewster, New York. She was best known for her 1982 platinum-selling single "Gloria (Laura Branigan song)|Gloria", a major hit throughout the world which spent a record-setting 36 weeks on Billboard's Hot 100 and received a Grammy Award nomination in early 1983. Following the massive success of "Gloria," Branigan introduced the ballad "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You", which spent three weeks at #1 on the US Adult Contemporary chart. The same year, she had another Top 10 Pop hit with "Solitaire"[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire_%28Laura_Branigan_song%29]. Branigan's "Self Control" album (1984) was certified Platinum and was her all-time biggest seller with the title track becoming an international smash. Her other Top-40 Pop hits include "The Lucky One", "Spanish Eddie", and "The Power of Love (Jennifer Rush song)|Power of Love". She was primarily of Irish people|Irish ancestry.
Biography
Rise To Celebrity
In the early 1970s, she was a member of a band called Meadow, who released one album in 1973 album entitled ''The Friend Ship''. The record was not a hit and has never been re-released. Branigan, for whatever reason, preferred not to discuss her involvement with Meadow publicly. ... read all