SINGER GLORIA LORING

Gloria Loring is one of the most versatile singers in the business today. She sings pop, Broadway, standards and swing. She also throws down knockout performances of classic rock. This depth and breadth of performing ability distinguishes her in the marketplace. She performs in concerts, with symphonies, at performing arts centers, prestigious clubs, private and corporate events, on television and in musical theatre. Her vocal impact is so powerful that it has become an integral part of her additional talents as author, actress, and speaker.

Her number one pop hit, Friends and Lovers, is just such an example of her cross platform success. Having been introduced on Days of Our Lives by her character Liz Chandler, Friends and Lovers was the most requested song in the history of NBC-TV.

The two television theme songs that she co-wrote, Diff’rent Strokes and Facts of Life, have been newly released on a CD compilation, All-Time Top 100 TV Themes, and are becoming cult classics with enormous downloads on iPods and cell phones. She has a dance version in the works further celebrating Facts of Life, which has also been released on DVD.

Gloria recently appeared and sang on The View, recorded a swinging version of Peggy Lee’s classic Fever with saxophonist Jimmy Sommers for his new CD Time Stands Still, and hosted and sang for an hour on a recent PBS special live from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Her spellbinding tribute to Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds at the Revolution Club in LA drew standing ovations from the music industry crowd and mega-producer David Foster.

Her appearance of classic rock and blues at The Music Box @ Fonda in Hollywood, resulted in six standing ovations. Her interpretation of The Prayer for the Young Musicians Foundation Awards show at the Beverly Hilton stilled the room with emotion. She recorded The Prayer with her son, Grammy Award-winner Robin Thicke, and it is featured on her newest CD, A Playlist. In a bit of synchronicity, guitar virtuoso Gil Parris invited Gloria to record Robin’s #1 R&B hit Lost Without You just days after the release of A Playlist.

With ten albums to her credit, Loring has performed in concert all over North America, Europe and Australia. Her performances prompt reviews from critics such as the one written by Don Heckman of the Los Angeles Times who said “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 Barbara Streisand.”

In addition to her eclectic concert repertoire, Gloria also offers shows with specialized themes:

Her new musical show TV Tunez Tonight is a celebration of television’s best theme songs drawn from popular sit-coms and dramas, westerns, children’s shows and commercials. It’s a show that appeals 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.

Gloria’s experience in musical theater includes Blame it on the Movies, where she won rave reviews, and the San Francisco production of Stardust directed by Tony Award winner Henry Le Tang. She starred in Tony Award-winner George Firth’s one-woman show Music Minus One and toured North America as “Reno Sweeney” in Cole Porter’s Anything Goes.

Gloria has shared the stage with George Carlin, Billy Crystal, Bill Cosby and Al Jarreau. She has sung on talk shows and specials, including the Tonight Show and the Emmy Awards and is one of the few artists to have sung two nominated songs on the Academy Awards. She was featured in Two Singers, an hour-long documentary about Gloria and the legendary Aretha Franklin.