'One Of The Most Revered Singers': Trump Announces Gloria Gaynor As Kennedy Center Honoree

Speaking at the Kennedy Center on Wednesday, President Trump announced Gloria Gaynor as a new Kennedy Center Honoree.

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00:00Actor. Fourth, we'll be together celebrating one of the most revered singers of the American

00:08disco era, Gloria Gaynor. Best known for her chart-topping 1978 hit, I Will Survive. Gloria

00:22won the 1980 Grammy for Best Disco Recording, and her song was inducted into the National Recording

00:31Registry in 2016. Four decades later, Gloria won a second Grammy in 2020 for her gospel album

00:40Testimony, which is incredible. Truly a historic achievement, not only in terms of the years that

00:48have gone by, to be great that long, but to have the two-top, two-top of anything in that span of time

00:56and with that kind of period between is pretty amazing. But I will say that I Will Survive

01:04is an unbelievable song. I've heard it, you know, like everyone else here thousands of times,

01:12and it's one of those few that get better every time you hear it, and nobody can sing it like her.

01:20And that's an honor. So, Gloria Gaynor. Thank you.