“I listened to a variety of music
and I still do,” said Gaynor. “Gos-
pel music is something that I’ve
wanted to do for years. I was try-
ing to do it, but the management
that I had before didn’t want me to
do it and kept stalling me. They’d
say, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah let’s do that,
that’s a good idea, let’s do that.’ So
I’d say, ‘When are we gonna do it?’
It just never happened.”
She’s won two Grammy Awards
forty years apart; has artists such
as Kacey Musgraves performing
her new single “Back On Top” as
well as “I Will Survive”; and multi-
ple others clamoring for her atten-
tion. How does Gaynor feel know-
ing that “I Will Survive” has stood
the test of time and is an anthem
for women the world over?
“It feels really great,” she ex-
claimed. “I don’t know who it was,
but someone said, ‘People might
not remember what you say but
they’ll remember how you made
them feel.’ That song makes them
feel powerful and empowered and
liberated and that’s wonderful for
me. I love that I’ve been able to do
that and still doing that with the
same song after all these years. A
whole new generation is listen-
ing to it and claiming it and it feels
wonderful to have that song. It’s
like the Phillips family heirloom,
they keep passing it on down.”
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Watch Gaynor and Kacey Musgraves perform “I Will Survive”
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