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Track: If You Loved Me
Artist: Laura Branigan
Album: Branigan

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Name: Laura Branigan
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US singer, songwriter and actress, born 3 July 1952 in Mount Kisco, Westchester County, New York; died 26 August 2004 in East Quogue, Suffolk County, New York, aged 52. Laura Branigan studied at Byram Hills High School, Armonk, graduating in June 1970, then studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Manhattan, from 1970 to 1972. Her recording career began in 1972, with folk group Meadow. She toured with [a=Leonard Cohen] in 1976, as a backing singer on his first European tour. [a=Ahmet Ertegun] and [a=Doug Morris] signed her to [l=Atlantic] Records in 1979. Her first Atlantic single, [Link] charted at no. 62. Her next single, a remake of [a=Umberto Tozzi]'s "[Link]" charted at no. 2 in the US. Branigan's music was influenced by [a=Donna Summer], [a=Aretha Franklin], [a=Gladys Knight], and [a=Stevie Nicks]. Her big hits included "[Link]", "[Link]", "[Link]" and "[Link]". After the release of her seventh album [Link] for Atlantic in 1993, she semi-retired from the music industry to care for her husband, Larry Kruteck, who was suffering from cancer. He died in 1996. Alongside her recording career, Branigan starred in the films 'Mugsy's Girls' (1985) and 'Backstage' (1988), and appeared on several TV shows, including "CHiPS" (1983), "Automan" (1984)' and "Monsters" (1991). She portrayed [a=Janis Joplin] in the stage production "Love, Janis" (2002), but dropped out after only two performances. Laura Branigan died in her sleep from an undiagnosed ventricular brain aneurysm in 2004.

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Release: Laura Branigan - Solitaire / If You Loved Me / Squeeze Box
Year: 1983
Genres: Electronic, Pop
Styles: Synth-pop, Ballad

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If you loved me, I'm sure that you would knowWouldn't be so easy for you to let me goIf you loved me, you'd put away your prideAnd put some love inside, and hold it there foreverIf you loved me, if you ever did beforeYou could find those feelings, and feel them all once moreIf you loved me, that love would pull us throughYou'd do all you could do to keep that love togetherYou had me walkin' on a rainbow that vanished at my feetNow that it's over, I see the truth my heart refused to seeIf you loved me the way I love you from the startWouldn't be so easy for you to break my heartIf you loved me, you'd give it one more tryYou wouldn't let it die, you'd hold me close foreverIf you loved meIf you loved meIf you loved me like I love you