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Singer Laura Branigan dies at 47
Laura Branigan recently played Janis Joplin in a stage musical
US pop star Laura Branigan, who enjoyed hits with the songs Gloria and Self Control in the early 1980s, has died of a brain aneurysm in her sleep aged 47.
Branigan, also an actress, was nominated for four Grammy Awards and her Gloria single reached number two in the US chart in 1982.
She complained of a headache for two weeks before she died but did not seek medical attention, her brother said.
She died on Thursday at home in East Quogue, New York, her family said.
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I know...just posted for us oldies here who didn't know.
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"Gloria" would make a good glam cover.
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Dude, she died a few days ago. [img]wink.gif[/img]
