Gloria Gaynor: ‘If you want to be healthy at 81, don’t stop using your body’

Gloria Gaynor: ‘If you want to be healthy at 81, don’t stop using your body’

If there is an icon who represents resilience, there’s no doubt that it’s Gloria Gaynor, every bit a survivor, with expertise in rising from the ashes. The documentary I Will Survive, now showing on Prime Video, portrays the struggle of the singer, beginning in 2015, to write and record a full-length gospel album. At the 2020 Grammys, when that very album, Testimony, won Best Roots Gospel Album, Gaynor proclaimed: “I am at last able to balance out my piano.” The words were a winking reference to the Grammy she won 40 years earlier with producers Dino Fekaris and Freddie Perren. That February 27, 1980 was the first and last time a Grammy was awarded for Best Disco Recording.

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