Gloria Gaynor began her professional music career in the early 1960s, when she was barely out of her teens. She was recording by the time she was 22, and had a couple of albums by the time she was 30.

But her songs and albums didn't really have great success- until 1978, when she went into the studio and recorded a song that became a defining moment in pop music.

"I Will Survive" became a smash Hit, and inspired millions.

But, of course, Gloria Gaynor's life was more than just one hit song. In her 1997 autobiography, also called. I Will survive, Gaynor told her life's story, with all of its ups and downs.