Gloria Taylor

Gloria Ann Taylor (who also recorded as Gloria Taylor) never quite achieved the success she deserved as an R&B vocalist, but years after she retired from professional performing, Taylor became a cult heroine among collectors of soul and disco dusties, with an international audience enjoying her music in both authorized and illicit pressings, while collectors paid as much as $1,000 for one of her rare singles. Born in West Virginia in 1945, Taylor moved to Toledo, Ohio with her family when she was two, and as a child she was diagnosed with rheumatic fever. After being told Glor...