Editing Gloria Gaynor (section)

===Career revival===
Gaynor's career received a revitalizing spark in the early- and mid-1990s with the worldwide disco revival movement. During the late 1990s, she dabbled in acting for a while, guest-starring on ''[[The Wayans Bros]]'', ''[[That '70s Show]]'' (singing "I Will Survive"), and ''[[Ally McBeal]],'' before doing a limited engagement performance in [[Broadway theatre|Broadway's]] ''[[Smokey Joe's Cafe (revue)|Smokey Joe's Cafe]]''. In 2001, Gaynor performed "I Will Survive" at the [[Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration|30th Anniversary concert]] for [[Michael Jackson]].

Gaynor returned to the recording studio in 2002, releasing her first album in over 15 years, ''[[I Wish You Love (Gloria Gaynor album)|I Wish You Love]]''. The two singles released from the album, "Just Keep Thinking About You" and "I Never Knew", both topped ''Billboard''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s [[Hot Dance Music/Club Play]]. Both singles also secured moderate to heavy dance format radio airplay. The latter song also charted No. 30 on ''Billboard''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s [[Adult Contemporary (chart)|Adult Contemporary]] chart. In 2004, Gaynor re-released her 1997 album ''[[The Answer (Gloria Gaynor album)|The Answer]]'' (also released under the title ''What a Life'') as a follow-up to her successful album ''I Wish You Love''. The album includes her club hit "Oh, What a Life".

In late 2002, Gaynor appeared with R&B stars on the "Rhythm, Love, and Soul" edition of the [[PBS]] series ''American Soundtrack''. Her performance of the disco hit "I Will Survive" and new single "I Never Knew" was included on the accompanying live album that was released in 2004.

On September 19, 2005, Gaynor was honored twice when she and her music were inducted into the [[Dance Music Hall of Fame]], in the "Artist" category, along with fellow disco artists [[Chic (band)|Chic]] and [[Sylvester (singer)|Sylvester]]. Her classic anthem "I Will Survive" was inducted under the "Records" category. In January 2008, the [[American Diabetes Association]] named Gaynor the Honorary Spokesperson of the 2008 "NYC Step Out to Fight Diabetes Walk".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://stepout.diabetes.org/site/TR/StepOut/StepOut080058010?pg=entry&fr_id=5415|title=Step Out: Walk to Fight Diabetes: New York City, NY|work=diabetes.org|access-date=September 8, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012043711/http://stepout.diabetes.org/site/TR/StepOut/StepOut080058010?pg=entry&fr_id=5415|archive-date=October 12, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>

More television appearances followed in the late 2000s with 2009 appearances on ''[[The John Kerwin Show]]'', ''[[The Wendy Williams Show]]'',<ref>{{Citation|last=DJBigBlender|title=Disco Star Gloria Gaynor on the Wendy Williams show (October 2009)|date=November 7, 2016|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXg3Ne4aTyI| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/sXg3Ne4aTyI| archive-date=December 11, 2021 | url-status=live|access-date=November 7, 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and ''[[The View (talk show)|The View]]'' to promote the 30th anniversary of "I Will Survive".<ref>{{YouTube|y6t5LV-1rMo}}{{dead link|date=May 2012}}</ref> In 2010, she appeared on ''[[Last Comic Standing]]'' and ''[[The Tonight Show with Jay Leno]]''. Gaynor released a [[Contemporary Christian music|contemporary Christian]] album in late 2013.

Forty years after its release, Gaynor continues to ride the success of "I Will Survive", touring the country and the world over and performing her signature song on dozens of TV shows. A few successful remixes of the song during the 1990s and 2000s along with new versions of the song by [[Lonnie Gordon]], [[Diana Ross]], [[Chantay Savage]], rock group [[Cake (band)|Cake]] and others, as well as constant recurrent airplay on nearly all [[soft AC]] and rhythmic format radio stations have helped to keep the song in the mainstream. Gaynor said of her biggest hit in a 2012 interview: "It feels great to have such a song like that because I get kids five and six years old telling me they like the song, and then people seventy-five and eighty. It's quite an honor."<ref name="Ask American Profile Page 2">Ask American Profile. Published in ''American Profile'' newsmagazine. January 29, 2012 edition. Page 2.</ref> The song was revived yet again in 2015 for the film ''[[The Martian (film)|The Martian]]'', where it is used at the end as the credits roll.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Martian|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3659388/soundtrack?ref_=tt_trv_snd|website=IMDb|access-date=April 17, 2016}}</ref>

[[file:GLORIA GAYNOR - SUMMER 2012 (8317897865).jpg|thumb|Gaynor performing in 2012]]
On May 16, 2015, Gaynor was awarded the honorary degree of [[Doctor of Music]] by [[Dowling College]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dowling.edu/commencement/gloria-gaynor/|title=Gloria Gaynor|work=Dowling College|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150404002504/http://www.dowling.edu/commencement/gloria-gaynor/|archive-date=April 4, 2015}}</ref> In 2017, she made a [[cameo appearance]] as a flight attendant in a [[Capital One]] commercial, while [[Samuel L. Jackson]], [[Charles Barkley]], and [[Spike Lee]] sang "I Will Survive".

In 2016, "I Will Survive" was selected for induction into the [[Library of Congress]]' [[National Recording Registry]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-16-056/national-recording-registry-recognizes-mack-the-knife-motown-and-mahler/2016-03-23/|title=National Recording Registry Recognizes "Mack the Knife," Motown and Mahler|website=Loc.gov|access-date=October 11, 2019}}</ref>

On May 6, 2017, Gaynor performed with her band at the Library of Congress' celebration of disco music at Bibliodiscotheque, a disco dance party in the Great Hall of the [[Thomas Jefferson Building]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/concerts/disco/|title=Library of Congress Bibliodiscotheque, April 12 - May 6, 2017 (Concerts from the Library of Congress, 2016-2017)|website=Loc.gov|access-date=October 11, 2019}}</ref>

Due to the devastation wreaked by [[Hurricane Harvey]] on the state of Texas in August 2017, Gaynor rewrote the lyrics to "I Will Survive", changing the title to "Texas Will Survive", and posted a video of herself singing the song on [[Twitter]] on August 30, 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/texas-will-survive-gloria-gaynor-rewrites-hit-song-to-support-texans/269-469432371|title='Texas Will Survive': Gloria Gaynor rewrites hit song to support Texans|website=KVUE|date=August 30, 2017 |access-date=November 25, 2019}}</ref>

In December 2019, "I Will Survive" trended on [[TikTok]] and Gaynor performed the dance<ref>{{Cite web |title=The great @gloriagaynor paid a visit to our studio today to chat her... |url=https://www.tiktok.com/@lifeminutetv/video/6771958244643523845 |access-date=2023-01-25 |website=TikTok |language=en}}</ref> at the LifeMinute TV<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gloria Gaynor on Everything from New Gospel Album, Testimony, to Her TikTok Takeover |url=https://lifeminute.tv/music/video/gloria-gaynor-everything-new-gospel-album-testimony-her-tiktok-takeover |access-date=2023-01-25 |website=lifeminute.tv |language=en}}</ref> studios in [[Times Square|Times Square, NY]].

In January 2020, she won her second Grammy Award in her career, 40 years after her first, for her roots gospel album ''[[Testimony (Gloria Gaynor album)|Testimony]]'', winning [[Grammy Award for Best Roots Gospel Album|Best Roots Gospel Album]] at the [[62nd Annual Grammy Awards]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/news/2020-grammy-awards-nominations-complete-winners-list|title=2020 GRAMMY Awards: Complete Winners & Nominations List|access-date=March 17, 2021}}</ref>

In 2021, Gaynor returned to disco music when she recorded "Can't Stop Writing Songs About You" with Australian singer [[Kylie Minogue]] for the reissue of Minogue's fifteenth studio album ''[[Disco (Kylie Minogue album)|Disco]]'' entitled ''Disco: Guest List Edition''.<ref>{{Cite web|url= https://music.kylie.com/product/87062|title= Kylie DISCO: GUEST LIST EDITION (DELUXE LIMITED) [3 CD, 1 DVD, 1 BLU-RAY]|access-date=November 1, 2021}}</ref> The collaboration occurred following Gaynor praising Minogue for keeping disco alive with her album of the same name.<ref>{{Cite tweet|user=gloriagaynor|number=1326739556343934979|title=Love you too sweetheart and bless you for keeping #Disco alive|first=Gloria|last=Gaynor|date=November 11, 2020|access-date=November 1, 2021}}</ref>

In April 2021, Gaynor recorded "Brand New" with the veteran Contemporary Christian band [[MercyMe]].<ref>{{Citation |title=inhale (exhale) by MercyMe |date=April 30, 2021 |url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/inhale-exhale/1564805289 |language=en-US |access-date=June 12, 2022}}</ref>

In 2022, Gaynor competed in [[The Masked Singer (American TV series) season 8|season eight]] of ''[[The Masked Singer (American TV series)|The Masked Singer]]'' as "Mermaid" who rode around on a giant clam-like vehicle that the Men in Black had to push around. After being eliminated on "[[Andrew Lloyd Webber]] Night" alongside [[Mario Cantone]] as "Maize", Gaynor did her encore performance of "I Will Survive".

On February 7, 2025, Gaynor released "Fida Known", the lead single to her upcoming EP "Happy Tears",<ref>{{Citation |title=Gloria Gaynor Reflects On The Past In Disco Kiss-Off Declaration “Fida Known” |date=February 7, 2025 |url=https://shorefire.com/releases/entry/gloria-gaynor-reflects-on-the-past-in-disco-kiss-off-declarationfida-known |language=en-US |access-date=April 27, 2025}}</ref> which is expected to be released on June 6, 2025.<ref>{{Citation |title=Gloria Gaynor's Survival Story Isn't Over |date=April 18, 2025 |url=https://www.papermag.com/gloria-gaynor-happy-tears |language=en-UK |access-date=April 27, 2025}}</ref>