“I am finally at a place of joy and self-fulfillment, and I am ready to share my secret to not only 'surviving but thriving' with the world,” said Gloria Gaynor. Beyond her iconic anthem, “I Will Survive,” Gaynor had always envisioned recording and releasing a gospel album. After ...
Years later, after Gaynor fully embraced Christianity, she expressed an interest in recording a gospel album. Record companies looked askance at her. “I was labeled as a disco act,” she said. “How can a disco act sing gospel? I thought, ‘Do you really know the Lord? Because if you...
'Cause I've been intending to do or hoping to do a Gospel album and I wanted them to know that I wasn't selling out, I wasn't gonna not ever do Disco music again or anything like that, but I just wanted them to know where my strength was coming from and I will do the Gospel...
she also charts Gaynor’s years-long quest to make a gospel LP. So, viewers are reminded of her storied career, experience her life journey and watch a protagonist fight an entrenched music industry that compartmentalizes
Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage Anywhere presents a performance with Grammy-Award winning queen of disco, Gloria Gaynor, this Thursday, November 12, at 5 pm ET. The performance is available to stream across SummerStage social channels: Inst