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How is it possible for a single song played on the radio one night to change the entire course of someone’s life?

I’m talking about Barry White. The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter with multiple gold and platinum records created music that helped define the 1970s and beyond.

But his career almost ended before it started when he was a teenager.He fell in with the wrong crowd, and actually wound up in jail. And that’s where one song changed everything as you’ll hear in a few minutes.

In 1999 Barry White published a memoir called Love Unlimited. His publisher offered me a few minutes with him on the phone from his home in Los Angeles.

So here now, from 1999, Barry White.

Barry White died in 2003. He was 58.

Gloria Gaynor began her professional music career in the early 1960s, when she was barely out of her teens. She was recording by the time she was 22, and had a couple of albums by the time she was 30.

But her songs and albums didn’t really have great success- until 1978, when she went into the studio and recorded a song that became a defining moment in pop music.

“I Will Survive” became a smash Hit, and inspired millions.

But, of course, Gloria Gaynor’s life was more than just one hit song. In her 1997 autobiography, also called. I Will survive, Gaynor told her life’s story, with all of its ups and downs.

So here now, from 1997, my conversation with Gloria Gaynor.

Gloria Gaynor is 78 now. Her most recent album was released in 2019, and won the Grammy for Best Roots Gospel Album.

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