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Gloria Gaynor is best known for the 1978 disco hit "I Will Survive", which has sold over 15 million copies worldwide and is one of the best-selling singles in history. The song won the Grammy for Best Disco Recording at the 22nd Annual Grammy Awards and was selected for the Library of Congress National Recording Registry in 2016.
Gloria Gaynor was born Gloria Fowles on the 7th of September 1943, in Newark, New Jersey. She grew up there, attended South Side High School, and began her singing career performing in local Newark nightclubs before signing with Columbia Records in 1971.
Gloria Gaynor has won two Grammy Awards. Her first came at the 22nd Annual Grammy Awards for "I Will Survive". Her second arrived forty years later in January 2020, when she won Best Roots Gospel Album at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards for her album Testimony.
No. Polydor Records originally released "I Will Survive" as a B-side in late 1978, paired with "Substitute" by South African group Clout as the A-side. "Substitute" was considered more radio-friendly, but "I Will Survive" became the global hit.
On the 13th of August 2025, President Donald Trump named Gloria Gaynor as one of the honorees for the annual Kennedy Center Honors, to be presented in December 2025.
"Never Can Say Goodbye" by Gloria Gaynor, released in 1975 on her album Never Can Say Goodbye, became the first song to top Billboard magazine's dance chart. It also reached No. 9 on the mainstream Pop Charts and entered the Top 5 in Australia, Canada, Germany, and the UK.