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 began returning 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 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 1985, 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), and the Ghostbusters soundtrack (1984), and also Miami Vice (1984). 2 hit " Ti amo" (1984), her return to the top 40 " The Power of Love" (1987), the top hit 15 dance " Shattered Glass." Her most successful album was 1984's platinum-selling Self Control. AC chart number one " How Am I Supposed to Live Without You" (1983), the Australian No. Seeing her greatest level of success in the 1980s, Branigan's other singles included the Top 10 hit " Solitaire" (1983), the U.S.
She also had success in the United Kingdom with both "Gloria" and "Self Control" making the Top 10 in the UK Singles Chart. In 1984, she reached number one in Canada and Germany with the U.S. 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. The hope is that it will become a place for all of my creative endeavors, music and otherwise.Laura Ann Branigan (J – August 26, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter, and actress. In this time away from touring I have been inspired to create more, and somethingscosmic will give the me flexibility to release when and how I want to with the help from my longtime partners at Jagjaguwar. Of her new somethingscosmic imprint, Olsen added: “I’m very excited to be introducing somethingscosmic, an imprint that will serve as the home for all my covers, collaborations, and one off singles. I imagined them all dancing and laughing in slow motion, and that’s when I got the idea to slow the entire song down and try it out in this way. I’d heard “Gloria” for the first time at a family Christmas gathering and was amazed at all the aunts who got up to dance.
We’d spend a good amount of time going through sounds before finding one or two, sometimes we’d get real weird and decide to just go with it. I’d come over to find Adam had set up 5 or so synthesizers, and we’d get lost on a part for a while messing with some obscure pedal I knew nothing about. I thought about completely changing some of the songs and turning them inside out. I needed to laugh and have fun and be a little less serious about the recording process in general.