
“Gloria,” a signature song from her debut album “Branigan,” stayed atop the pop charts for 36 weeks and earned her a Grammy nomination for best female pop vocalist, the first of four nominations in her career. He said she had complained to a friend of a headache for about two weeks before she died, but had not sought medical attention.

Branigan died of a brain aneurysm Thursday in her sleep at her home in East Quogue, N.Y., said her brother Mark Branigan.


Laura Branigan, a Grammy-nominated pop singer best known for her 1982 platinum hit “Gloria,” has died at the age of 47.
