If there is an icon of resilience, without a doubt that is Gaynor Gloria, an expert survivor in reborn of her ashes. The documentary has been released in Movistar + y He portrays the singer’s fight, which begins in 2015, for fulfilling a dream: write and record a complete album of Gospel songs. In the 2020 Grammy Awards when the disc called Testimony Gospel’s best root album achieved the award, the singer said: “Finally my piano has symmetry.” His words were a wink to Grammy who obtained 20 years before, on February 27, along with the producers Dino Fekaris and Freddie Perren. That was the first and last time the Grammy was delivered to the best disc recording.
Within its current concert agenda there are two dates in Spain: on July 24 it acts at the Tío Pepe Festival, in Cádiz, and on August 12 in San Pedro del Pinatar, Murcia. In his shows he will release his usual songs and the songs of his new album, Happy Tearswhich has just published. When in 2008 he launched his autobiography, entitled I Will Survive, He clarified that despite being “a walk for his life”, that at all meant that everything would have ended, as then said to. Proof of this is your documentary. The reason why he has decided to tell his story? “As I do not think to be so ready to have made unusual mistakes, I want those who have gone through similar things to see that it is possible to survive and prosper after having lived traumatic situations in their lives,” he tells S Moda.
You lived in survival mode for a long time, but now you are in a “enjoyment” state of prosperity. How did this change of state achieve?
Thanks to my faith. I am a Christian since I was a child, but to my marriage I did not start to really practice Christianity. It was then that I struggled to try to be the best possible person and when I began to spread love, joy, peace and happiness.
When looking back, what has discovered from itself?
The immense strength I have inside and how through my faith, I have had the necessary courage to say no, something that is very difficult for many people. I have realized my ability to get the force that God gave me and recognize my own value. Because I think that recognizing your true value is the most important. If you don’t do it, nobody will.
No one will recognize your value better than you and no one will explain better than you your new EP, Happy tearsso I beg you to do it …
I cry with joy from time to time. When you go through something very sincere and deep, if it is something happy, you cry. That happens for example before the birth of a son, at the wedding of a friend or at your daughter’s wedding … I have overcome so many things that I now cry with joy, because I am thriving and I find myself in a great moment of my life.
In fact he is 81 years old but continues to live things for the first time.
Exactly. Age is just a number. The most important thing is your health. I’m going to tell you something I learned from a friend two years younger than me. It is a lesson that young people must learn because if I had known before, I would have gone much better. She was seeing her granddaughters and picking up things from the ground when I realized that she never doubles my knees. You can put your hands with the palms down on the floor without folding your knees. And it’s just two years younger than me! You don’t have to stop exercising. Do not stop using your body because one day, when you want to do something, your body will tell you: “I’m sorry, but we are not going to do that.”
Practice crossfit two or three times a week with its personal trainer. Where does that energy come from?
I am like a tongue: if I stop, I fall. Therefore, simply, I keep going. I am lucky that I love what I do, I am one of those people who say that if you work on what you love, you will not work for a day in your life. That’s why I never think they are working and that’s why I don’t need to stop. The music was and that is what feeds my soul. It still elevates me, it encourages me, gives me strength and blesses me every day. Music is my life.
And faith …
Faith is everything. It is the basis of my music. During the last 20 years I find it very difficult to write a song that is not about God. When I took Kylie Minogue Can´t Stop Writing Songs About YouI was thinking about God.
You are our Holy Teresa of Jesus!
It is that Jesus is “man.” It’s “The One.”
As he turned years, he felt that the music industry matters less!?
Oh, please! If the music industry doesn’t care about anyone! There is so much narcissism in this industry that is ridiculous. I was thinking that the devil in the sky is the head of the Department of Music. He has musical instruments in his body, so he is in charge of music. But God does not revoke his gifts. Therefore, it remains in charge of music. So if you don’t consciously sing your music, if you don’t do it for God, it’s yours.
He is between racks, feeding people with all kinds of stupidities. That narcissism makes people believe that everything turns around it, that it is unique and that it is at the top.
In the documentary he talks about the sexual abuses he suffered. What do you think of #MeToo?
I think it’s good, because women need to take off that. When you do, it is a cathartic exercise, because you blame who corresponds and free yourself. These people need to account and it is important that these men be prevented from committing such offenses.
Everyone refers to you as “the queen of the album.” People have referred to you as “queen” almost more than Queen Elizabeth. That crown, does pride generate pressure?
I feel proud because I was chosen queen of disc music in 1975 by the International Association of Discothèque disc jockeys. They could see that my music was the one that took people the most to the dance floor, the one that generated the most happiness and euphoria and the one that freed people from everyday concerns. I am very happy and proud to be responsible for that.
Speaking of pride, what does the LGTBIAQ+community suppose for you, for which your motto, I will survive, Is it a hymn?
They are another part of my audience, which I do not classify by categories. My fans are between 8 and 80 years old, so I do not categorize them for age either. They are distributed throughout the world, so I do not celebrate or separate them by nationalities. The community is part of my audience and that is wonderful.
There is a moment in the documentary in which it is said that they are in 2016 and that this was not “an easy year to get an album.” Is anyone?
The easy thing is to launch it, the difficult thing, to be heard. People can’t buy what they don’t hear, what they don’t know. Therefore, the problem is to make it known. That is the difficult part: overcome what I call “the guardians.”
In the documentary he says that he has not yet fulfilled his mission. What is it about?
It consists in bringing hope, joy, breath and empowerment to people around the world to overcome and prosper in the difficult times of their lives and who can recognize their own inner strength and, above all, invoke the love and empowerment of God.
So in reality, we could already say “mission fulfilled”, right?
Yes, but people are born constantly. I need to get to everyone!
This summer will perform twice in Spain. How is that Spaniard?
(Respond in Spanish). I always tell Latinos the same thing: I can say almost everything I want in Spanish. My problem is that I do not know many people who speak Spanish. That’s why I speak much better than I understand.
The subject Fida Known Of his last EP he talks about looking back and recognizing mistakes. When you do, do you see your stumbling blocks as something to regret or like lessons?
They are definitely life lessons. I do not regret any of the mistakes I have made because I think they have taken me to a different world. They made me known to different people and opened different doors. They also prevented me from crossing other doors that should not have crossed. Errors help you grow. If you don’t make mistakes, you probably are not living.
Speaking of doors he did not cross, did God not prove cocaine?
Honey, when God speaks to you, you listen.
He dedicated eight years to his Gospel album. Without a doubt, you value the time, pamper it. What is your relationship with him?
I value time a lot and almost constantly ask God for wasting it, because it cannot be recovered. It is necessary to make the most of every moment of life. Although it is not easy, you have to be aware of it and make sure to make the most of every moment.
How do you choose to work with?
I choose each one for their talent but I just want to work with people who are pleasant, helpful and complete to give the best in the project. I have always worked with kind and wonderful people. In this way, although music does not take us anywhere, we will undoubtedly have had a great time.
How do you want to be remembered?
I would like to be remembered as someone who aroused faith in God to people. I think that the most important mission of my life is to help people try to achieve eternal life, because we will be dead much longer than we will be alive.
