Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

  Laura Branigan had her biggest hits with covers of Raf's ( Self control ) and Umberto Tozzi's ( Gloria , Ti amo ) songs and she also recorded songs made hits by someone else later ( I found someone by Cher for example) but her own repertoire is respectable as well. I found her thanks to Self control of course, and then followed and searched back her previous career and was a fan until the end. When I heard the news of her death in a car radio I was maybe a bit more shaken as I should have been....  she's still missed.  Check out also

Laura Branigan passed away six years ago today at the age of 47. Her biggest hit in the US was a cover of Umberto Tozzi's Gloria , but in Europe a cover of Raf's Self control . She further recorded Tozzi's Ti amo, and even participated in Sanremo 1991 with Fiordaliso doing Il mare piú grande che c'é / Don't walk away . Her recording career started in 1979 but the first album came out only in 1982 and the Grammy nominations started right on with Gloria . She also scored the first hit for writers Diane Warren with Solitaire and Michael Bolton with How am I supposed to live without you. The Lucky one followed winning the Tokyo Music Festival and she also scored a hit with Carole King cover Will you still love me tomorrow , a nice change from her uptempo songs. She also did I found someone , later a comeback hit for Cher, on the other hand she covered Jennifer Rush's The power of love and made it a hit again. And she recorded Celine Dion's Unison before it...

Carola will bring her Christmas in Betlehem tour also in Finland (December 2 Mariehamn, December 4 Kristiina, December 5 Pietarsaari and December 6 Helsinki). After that she's off to Norway and then back to Sweden. Worth mentioning is Alexander Rybak is in Finland at the same time (December 5 Helsinki, December 6 Tampere) and will perform in Kulttuuritalo the night before Carola. Meanwhile her third  (the first has sold over 600.000 in Scandinavia, the second 200.000 so far and keep selling more every Christmas time) Christmas in Betlehem album will be released November 11. This time it's all in English featuring duets with Paul Potts, Hank von Helvete, Gladys Del Pilar and Finnish violinist Linda Lampenius amongst others) In the end of November she's off to Denmark to star along Malena Ernman, Michael Bolton, Jamie Cullum and Aqua in a Christmas TV-special.