

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. By the way, it should be noted that Ezra actually has a home in L.A.Laura Ann Branigan (J – August 26, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter, and actress.

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