The Latest News: Check out Gloria's newest CD, A Playlist. Jazziz Magazine praised it, "Perhaps best known these days as the mother of rising R&B star Robin Thicke, the famed soap actress, pop singer and TV theme song writer checks in with this charming and delightful mix of contemporary pop standards and originals. Highlights include an updated version of her 1986 1 pop duet with Carl Anderson “Friends and Lovers” and an uplifting duet with Robin on “The Prayer.” The CD is available on the web site, www.glorialoring.com.
Gloria Loring is the recording artist of the hit song Friends and Lovers, co-composer of television theme songs for Diff’rent Strokes and Facts Of Life and and one of the few artists to sing two nominated songs at the Academy Awards.
This year has been a busy one. She recorded a swinging version of Peggy Lee's classic "Fever" with saxophone phenomenon Jimmy Sommers. She hosted and sang for a holiday PBS special live from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. In her recent performance of classic rock and blues at the Music Box @ the Fonda in Hollywood, she received six standing ovations. In addition, she recorded her first meditation CD, Body, Breath and Mind, launched a new production company, Maybe It's Today Productions, and just released a new CD, A Playlist, a compilation of her favorite recordings of the past fifteen years.
Gloria has been thrilled to watch the Grammy Award-winning success of her son, Robin Thicke. Gloria notes, "From the time he was a little boy, he loved to sing and dance. He's worked for fifteen years as an artist, songwriter, and record producer. Seeing him onstage now, seeing him come to maturity as an artist and performer, has been a joy for me. He has truly found his voice in every way."
Gloria is well acquainted with the joy of performance. She has appeared in concert all over North America, as well as in England and Australia. Her performances prompt rave reviews such as the one written by Don Heckman of the Los Angeles Times, “She told stories with the panache of Lena Horne, sang torch songs like Judy Garland, and scatted with the rhythmic thrust of a young Ella Fitzgerald. She did all of this with one of the best vocal instruments in pop music since the salad days of Barbra Streisand.” Gloria has shared the stage with George Carlin, Billy Crystal, Bill Cosby and Al Jarreau. She’s starred in musicals, movies of the week and television specials, and has hosted television shows and live events.
When her son Brennan was diagnosed with diabetes at age four, she created and self-published two volumes of the Days Of Our Lives Celebrity Cookbook. Those books, along with her recording A Shot in the Dark, raised more then one million dollars for diabetes research. She followed that success with two commercially published books, Kids, Food and Diabetes and Parenting a Child with Diabetes.
Recently, MPress released her new book written with Dr. Timothy Gray, Living with Type 2 Diabetes: Moving Past the Fear. She promoted it on The View, and spoke of her long-standing commitment to help people with diabetes and other chronic diseases.
Last year, she was honored with the Founders Award from the National Disease Research Interchange for her lifetime work in diabetes. She has also been awarded the Lifetime Commitment Award from JDRF and the 1999 Woman of Achievement Award from the Miss America Organization.
Ms. Loring is listed in the World Who’s Who of Women and Who’s Who in America. She is married to Emmy Award-winning art director and production designer, René Lagler.
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