Branigan preferred not to discuss her involvement with Meadow publicly.ĭuring the years after Meadow broke up, Branigan had various jobs, including a stint as one of Leonard Cohen's backup singers for his European tour in April–August 1976. The band broke up, after which Walker Daniels committed suicide. The record was not properly promoted and never re-released. In 1973 the group, with bass player Bob Valdez, released their debut album The Friend Ship, featuring the singles When You Were Young, and Cane and Able, which featured the hook line "Throw away your cane and you are able". In 1972 she met acoustic guitarist Walker Daniels and his future wife Sharon Storm, and acoustic guitarist Chris Van Cleave, forming the folk-rock band Meadow (named as a good place for Paul McCartney's band Wings to land in). Between 19 she attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, and worked as a waitress. Conway and Mary Teresa McGuiness) all of them were Irish.īranigan attended Byram Hills High School in 1966 to 1970, starring in the high school musical The Pajama Game in her senior year. O'Connor) and Mary Conway (daughter of Francis J. Branigan's maternal grandparents were William O'Hare, Jr. (1914–1984), an account executive and mutual funds broker they later separated. She died at her home in 2004 from a previously-undiagnosed cerebral aneurysm.īranigan was born in the village of Brewster, New York, fourth of five children of Kathleen O'Hare Branigan (1921–2006) and James Branigan, Sr. In 1985, she won the Tokyo Music Festival with the song "The Lucky One". She also contributed songs to motion picture and television soundtracks, including the Grammy and Academy Award-winning Flashdance soundtrack (1983), and the Ghostbusters soundtrack (1984). Her most successful album was 1984's platinum-selling Self Control. AC chart number one "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You" (1983), the Australian number two hit "Ti Amo (1984), and "The Power of Love" (1987). number four hit "Self Control".īranigan's other singles included the top ten hit "Solitaire" (1983), the U.S. In 1984, she reached number one in Canada and Germany with the U.S. It also reached number one in Australia and Canada. Billboard Hot 100 for 36 weeks, then a record for a female artist, peaking at number two. Her signature song, the platinum-certified 1982 single "Gloria", stayed on the U.S. Laura Ann Branigan (J – August 26, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter, and actress.
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