It's the ultimate high you can reach as a musician - an incredible feeling. In reference to performing live, she said, “When you're on stage, the audience becomes your other half. She performed for audiences in the United States, Canada, Europe, South America, Asia, Australia, and Africa, touring the world several times with consistently sold-out shows to her credit. These cumulative sales have garnered Laura various Gold and Platinum record awards from both the RIAA in the US and similar entities in other countries. Laura's US album and single sales have exceeded ten million, with her multiple international greatest hits compilations having sold additional millions in every world market. This hits compilation included two new cover tracks, "Show Me Heaven" and "Dim All The Lights." In 1995, a US greatest hits collection called The Best of Branigan was released. This recording was by far her most personally reflective to date. With this album, she added producing to her repertoire with her cover of the disco-era "Turn The Beat Around." Laura's seventh studio album, Over My Heart, was released in 1993.
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Records in Germany rushed out a small compilation soon after her death, which also included new club remixes of "Gloria" and "Self Control".Īlongside her recording career, Branigan landed acting parts in films (Mugsy's Girl in 1985, Backstage in 1988) and in TV shows including Chips and Monsters (1991).Laura released Laura Branigan in 1990. She appeared to go back into the studio to record a few tracks, a cover of Abba's, but she died suddenly in her sleep from a brain aneurysm. In 2002 Branigan appeared on stage as Janis Joplin in "Love, Janis" and earned rave reviews. From then on she was to record very little new material. In the mid-late 90's she returned with a compilation which included two new tracks, covers of Maria McKee's "Show Me Heaven" and Donna Summer's "Dim All The Lights", the video of which comes complete with over the top drag queens. Her powerful voice with its 4 octave range was suited to both queen of heartbreak ballads in a similar vein to Abba's Agnetha Fältskog, to booming anthemic Hi-Nrg/AOR rock.Īfter the release of her seventh album for Atlantic in 1993, Branigan semi-retired from the music industry to care for her husband, suffering from cancer.
Indeed, she recorded two tracks, a cover of Ellie Warren's and Hazell Dean's with Stock, Aitken & Waterman for her 5th album. Branigan's music was heavily influenced by the singers she admired, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, Stevie Nicks, and like Donna Summer she used European producers, arrangers and musicians (notably Jack White and Harold Faltermeyer) to create a eurodisco style with an American twist, whilst most of her big hits,, ,, were originally European compositions.Īlthough she had chart success with singles from her first three albums (the single gaining no 4 in the USA and Britain and No 1 in Germany), and had contributed tracks for Hollywood films ("Imagination" on, "Hot Night" on and "Sharpshooter" on ), Branigan's subsequent albums were not well received by the record buying public, as she became eclipsed in the pop world by the likes of Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Celine Dion and others.īranigan's fans fell into 2 camps, with her MOR ballads appealing to a conservative crowd, but her up-tempo eurodisco/Hi-NRG-AOR soft rock/disco tracks ensuring she always had a large gay following.
Her first commercial release charted at no 62, but her next release, a remake of Umberto Tozzi's led to worldwide acclaim, getting to no 2 in the USA, and the top ten in most other territories, earning Branigan the first of many nominations for a Grammy, amongst other awards. Her first LP for Atlantic, "Silver Dreams", remains unreleased due to a Contract Lawsuit with her management at the time, although a promo track became a small club hit. Laura Branigan studied at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Manhattan during the mid 1970s.īranigan's recording career began in the mid 70s with a group called Meadows, resulting in the forgotten release "The Friend Ship", but her solo career took off when Ahmet Ertegun and Doug Morris signed her to Records in 1980, after she had toured with Leonard Cohen as backing singer for his "Death Of A Ladies Man" world tour. Solitaire / If You Loved Me / Squeeze Boxīorn: 3 July 1957 in Brewster, New York, USA.ĭied: 26 August 2004 in Long Island, New York, USA (aged 47). Dim All The Lights (The Stonebridge Mixes)