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ABOUT GLORIA LORING
A consummate singer and entertainer, Gloria Loring is the recording artist of the #1 hit song Friends and Lovers; co-composer of television theme songs for Diff’rent Strokes and Facts Of Life; an audience favorite from daytime TV’s Days Of Our Lives; spokesperson for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation; author of four books, including her new release, Living With Type 2 Diabetes: Moving Past the Fear; inspirational speaker; and one of the few artists to sing two nominated songs at the Academy Awards. Gloria Loring’s energy, commitment and joy are absolutely contagious.
Recently, Gloria has been writing, recording and promoting her new book about Type 2 diabetes. Appearing on The View, she spoke and sang about her commitment to raise awareness and help people with diabetes and other chronic diseases. She recorded a great new version of Peggy Lee`s classic, "Fever" with saxophone phenomenon Jimmy Sommers, and hosted and sang on a PBS special live from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. In a recent appearance featuring classic rock and blues at The Music Box @ the Honda in Hollywood, she received six standing ovations. Performing at Sheryl Lee Ralph`s annual Divas Simply Singing, she stopped the show cold and was booked for the next year before the curtain came down. In addition, she has recorded her first meditation CD, Body, Breath and Mind, launched a new production company, "Maybe It`s Today," and has just released her tenth CD A Playlist, which Jazziz Magazine described as "a charming and delightful mix of contemporary pop standards and originals."
With ten albums to her credit, Loring has performed in concert all over North America and Australia. Her performances prompt reviews from critics, 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.
On the lecture circuit, Gloria speaks from a diverse menu of topics and programs, ranging from health and business to entertainment and spirituality. Gloria is known as a fierce advocate for those living with chronic illness. She is an accredited yoga instructor and an articulate champion of bio-medical research. When her son 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. Her newest book, Living with Type 2 Diabetes: Moving Past the Fear, written with Dr. Timothy Gray, has just been released by M Press. She was also just honored with the Founders Award from the National Disease Research Interchange for her lifetime work in diabetes.
Honored with the Lifetime Commitment Award from JDRF and the 1999 Woman of Achievement Award from the Miss America Organization, 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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