Funeral services were scheduled for Monday. She is survived by her mother, two brothers and a sister. In 2002 she starred as Janis Joplin in the off-Broadway musical "Love, Janis," which earned her rave reviews.īranigan recently had been working on material for a new release. In 1994, she sang a duet with David Hasselhoff called "I Believe" for the soundtrack of the television show "Baywatch." She released a 13-track "Best of Branigan" LP the next year.Īfter the death of her husband, Lawrence Kruteck, in 1996, Branigan stopped performing but returned to the stage in 2001.
2, according to .Īfter her run of success in the 1980s, her releases in the early 1990s attracted little attention. pop chart for 36 weeks, not atop it for that long.
Since then, the AP has identified other errors in the obituary. She also is best described as having grown up in Armonk, New York, and not Brewster, as the AP's original obituary said. School records, newspaper articles written about her in the 1950s and 1960s, and testimonials from childhood friends all indicate that she was born in 1952. However, after being contacted recently by one of Branigan's fans, the AP conducted a thorough review and established that she was actually 52 when she died. 28, 2004, an AP report, relying on information from her management company, claimed that the pop singer was 47 and had been born on July 3, 1957. Nearly 13 years after "Gloria" singer Laura Branigan died, The Associated Press has issued numerous corrections about her 2004 obituary.
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