Gloria Gaynor

Gloria Gaynor began her professional music career in the early 1960s, when she was barely out of her teens. She was recording by the time she was 22, and had a couple of albums by the time she was 30. But her songs and albums didn't really have great success- until 1978, when she went into the studio and recorded a song that became a defining moment in pop music. "I Will Survive" became a smash Hit, and inspired millions. But, of course, Gloria Gaynor's life was more than just one hit song. In her 1997 autobiography, also called. I Will survive, Gaynor told her life's story, with all of its ups and downs.