Gloria Gaynor Gloria Gaynor Gloria Gaynor (born September 7, 1949) is an American singer, best known for the disco era hits "I Will Survive" (Hot 100 number 1, 1979), "Never Can Say Goodbye" (Hot 100 number 9, 1974), "Let Me Know (I Have a Right)" (Hot 100 number 42, 1980) and "I Am What I Am" (R&B number 82, 1983). Gloria Fowles was born in 1949 in Newark, New Jersey, to Daniel Fowles and Queenie Mae Proctor. Her grandmother lived nearby and was involved in her upbringing. "There was always music in our house", Gaynor wrote in her autobiography, "I Will Survive".
Glenys Fowles 1986 Fowles was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her services to music. Her 1978 recording, for EMI, of Valencienne in "The Merry Widow" (excerpts, in English translation), with Sills, Alan Titus, and Henry Price, conducted by Julius Rudel, won a Grammy Award. "Live From The Sydney Opera House", in which she appears as Mimì in "La bohème", won an Emmy Award. She was an adjudicator for the 2004 Mathy Awards. Glenys Fowles Glenys Rae Fowles AM (born 4 November 1941; some sources say 1946) is an Australian operatic soprano who sang with Opera Australia and