ABOUT GLORIA LORING

As a singer, entertainer and host, Gloria Loring is known for her energy, commitment and joy. She is the recording artist of the #1 hit song Friends and Lovers; co-composer of television theme songs 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 newest, Living With Type 2 Diabetes: Moving Past the Fear; a keynote speaker for corporations and non-profits; and one of the few artists to sing two nominated songs at the Academy Awards. As a performer, she toggles effortlessly from classic rock to standards, from Broadway to pop - in clubs, performing arts centers, symphonies, casinos and fairs.

In a recent performance of classic rock and blues at The Music Box @ Fonda in Hollywood, she received six standing ovations. She hosted and sang for a holiday PBS Special live from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.  She recorded Peggy Lee's classic, Fever, with saxophone hottie Jimmy Sommers for his new CD, “Time Stands Still.” In an intriguing twist, Gloria released her newest CD, A Playlist, which features her Grammy Award-winning son, Robin Thicke, on two cuts, and just days later got a phone call from jazz guitarist Gil Parris inviting her to record Robin’s R&B mega hit Lost Without You with him for his upcoming CD.

Gloria recorded her first meditation CD, Body, Breath and Mind, launched a new production company, Maybe It's Today, and has playfully gone Web 2.0 1/2 with friend Leeza Gibbons with the acquisition of a complete digital editing system. She recently hosted and performed for the Young Musicians Foundation Awards at the Beverly Hilton, was a special guest for the Gift In Shift seminar in Sedona, Arizona, hosted the launch of the Shankara Skin Care line, and sang a tribute to Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds at Revolution in Los Angeles where she stopped the show cold.

Gloria promoted her new book with a ratings-winning appearance on The View where she spoke and sang of her commitment to those with diabetes and other chronic diseases. She is the on-camera spokesperson for Mini Pharmacy, hosts a PSA for the National Disease Research Interchange and recently appeared on Lifetime’s Health Corner.

With ten albums to her credit, Loring has performed in concert all over North America, Europe and Australia. Her performances prompt 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 Billy Crystal, Bill Cosby, Al Jarreau and the late George Carlin. She’s starred in movies of the week, TV specials and in theatrical productions including the national tour of Anything Goes.

Her newest musical show, TV Tunez Tonight, is a celebration of television’s best theme songs that draws from sit-coms and dramas, to westerns, sci-fi, sports, games shows and commercials, appealing to all demographics..

Gloria Loring Throws It Down draws from her own life, with a theme that comes from her heart and experience. It is Gloria at her single best; a one-woman blitz of classic rock, tortured torch, sensitive ballads and personal myth. She not only lays it on the line, she crosses it just to make sure.

Is There Anybody Out There is a performance built from two decades of spiritual inquiry and practice that never fails to uplift and inspire.

On the lecture circuit, Gloria customizes every talk she gives, speaking from a diverse menu of topics, ranging from health and business to entertainment and spirituality. She has created a unique musical-motivational seminar, combining biographical anecdotes and personal growth insight with original music in Yes, And! How I Learned To Play Along With Life. Taking lessons learned from on-stage performance fueled by the insights of improvisational theater, Gloria offers a playful and instructive approach to navigating life’s circumstances.

Gloria is a certified yoga instructor and an articulate champion of bio-medical research.  After her son Brennan was diagnosed with diabetes at age four, she created and self-published two volumes of the Days Of Our Lives cookbook.  Those books, along with her recording A Shot in the Dark, raised more than 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 also just released on e-books.

Gloria has been honored with the Lifetime Commitment Award from JDRF and received the Woman of Achievement Award from the Miss America Organization, an honor she shares with past recipients Barbara Bush, Roslyn Carter, and Hillary Clinton. She is married to Emmy Award-winning art director and production designer, René Lagler.