Newly-recorded tracks-including a dance remake of ABBA’s “The Winner Takes ItĪll” and a haunting cover of the late Eva Cassidy’s “I Know You By Heart”-when Branigan was again dipping her toe back into music with a few Necessitated rods and pins in both legs and months of intensive physical Home in Westchester County, New York, resulted in two broken femurs that Ten-foot fall from a ladder she was using to hang wisteria outside her lakeside
Her prospects for a comeback dimmed again in 2001 when a Would go on to become a moderate Billboard Top 40 Dance hit. “Dim All the Lights.” Aided by a fun, drag queen-infused video, the latter OF THUNDER soundtrack) and a high-energy cover of Donna Summer’s disco nugget McKee’s “Show Me Heaven” (which had been an international smash from the DAYS She was contractually obligated to Atlantic toĭeliver two new tracks for the 13-track greatest hits compilation THE BEST OFīRANIGAN (1995), and she chose covers of former Lone Justice frontwoman Maria Hiatus, during which grunge became the music du jour and poor managementįurther derailed her career. HerĬareer never recovered from either the heartbreak of losing her husband or the Husband, Larry Kruteck, who would eventually die of colon cancer in 1996. HEART, Branigan went on hiatus from the music industry to care for her ailing Jennifer Rush’s juggernaut ballad “The Power of Love” (predating Celine Dion’sįollowing the release of her final album, 1993’s OVER MY (which was later covered by Stevie Nicks), and her emotionally raw take on Supposed to Live Without You” (penned by pre-fame Michael Bolton), “Cry Wolf” Unfortunately, Branigan’s career was marked by material that rarely rose to theĬaliber of her magnificent voice, with a few notable exceptions like “How Am I With “Solitaire”, “Self Control”, “Spanish Eddie”, and “Shattered Glass.” As European synthpop took hold of the decade, more Top 40 hits came Subsequent releases proved the singer more than a one-hit Forīetter or for worse, “Gloria” would become the singer’s signature hit. Landing Branigan her first and only Grammy nomination as a solo artist. Then-record 36 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number two and “Gloria.” That song would eventually go on to be certified platinum and spend a
Would finally come by way of a reworked cover of an Italian love song,
When her nine-track debut album-uninspiringly titledīRANIGAN-was finally released in 1982, the singer’s elusive breakout success Of disco and the second British invasion not yet landing ashore in America,īranigan’s booming four-octave voice actually worked against her during thoseĮarly days at Atlantic, with the label’s A&R folks scrambling to position Records, in 1979, her first album-SILVER DREAMS-went unreleased despite theįirst single making a blip on the BILLBOARD dance chart. In the late 1970s, several years after attending theĪmerican Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, Branigan got her first break-touringĮurope as a backing vocalist for Canadian singer and songwriter Leonard Cohen.Īlthough she signed as a solo artist with Ahmet Ertegun, co-founder of Atlantic
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