Glori (Lori)   (USA)

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Latest Lori Glori news

04/03/2024 : Lori Glori needs your financial help to allow her cover her living expenses, such as rent, groceries, and her dad Clarence's medical treatment, but also to allow her to be the main actress in "Last Night a DJ Took My Life", a theater production in Switzerland this year

08/04/2023 : ZoOom announced that Move Your Body, his collaboration with Lori Glori, would finally never be released

18/03/2023 : Lori Glori's forthcoming single is a collaboration with rapper ZoOom entitiled Move Your Body. They will perform the song for the first time in April 15th during a concert in Cincinnati

05/06/2020 : Lori Glori and Melchior Sultana released a single entitled Silver & Gold

30/05/2019 : Discover the official videoclip for Lori Glori & Randy Norton's new single Shine.

20/04/2019 : Single Shine recorded by Lori Glori and Randy Norton could be at last released very soon under DMN Records

05/12/2018 : Lori Glori's new single is entitled Claim It.

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Lori Glori albums

	Merry Merry Christmas	15th Dec 2011	BUY X
	It Feels Like Xmas	7th Dec 2017	BUY X

Lori Glori singles

	My Body & Soul	1992	BUY X
	My Body & Soul	9th Aug 1994	BUY X
	Come Set Me Free	17th Oct 1997	BUY X
	Side By Side	25th Jan 1998	BUY X
	Show Me The Way	2006	BUY X
	You Know What	10th Jan 2014	BUY X
	Hark It's Christmas (feat. Kandall Rae)	27th Nov 2017	BUY X
	Claim It	30th Nov 2018	BUY X
	Shine (with Randy Norton)	30th May 2019	BUY X
	Silver & Gold (with Melchior Sultana)	25th May 2020	BUY X

Lori Glori remixes

You Know What (Randy Norton 2k16 Remixes)

23rd Mar 2016

BUY X

Featurings and collaborations

	Andi Slavik - Indians Spirits	1994	BUY X
	S.I.C. - Don't Stop Making Love	1994	BUY X
	LOFT - Wake The World (album)	1994	BUY X
	Intermission - Six Days	12th Apr 1994	BUY X
	Rhythm and Dance Machine - Never	1st Jul 1994	BUY X
	DJ Bobo - There Is A Party (album)	21st Oct 1994	BUY X
	Centory - Take It To The Limit	28th Oct 1994	BUY X
	Intermission - Give Peace A Chance	28th Oct 1994	BUY X
	Centory - Eye In The Sky	5th May 1995	BUY X
	Powersound - Freedom Forever	12th Jun 1995	BUY X
	Intermission - Piece Of My Heart (album)	27th Dec 1995	BUY X
	DJ Bobo - Pray	1996	BUY X
	Holy Groove - Let It Be	1997	BUY X
	Vienna ft. Rod D - Amadeus '97	1997	BUY X
	DJ Bobo - Respect Yourself	18th Feb 1997	BUY X
	DJ Bobo - It's My Life	28th Apr 1997	BUY X
	Holy Groove - The New Sound of Gospel (album)	24th Oct 1997	BUY X
	Heaven's Hands - The Message Is Love	1998	BUY X
	Xxpolove - Ooh La La I Wanna Have Some...	1st Aug 1998	BUY X
	Rappers Against Racism - Sorry	28th Apr 1999	BUY X
	Samira - It Was Him	6th Sep 1999	BUY X
	Hotstuff - Hot Stuff	2000	BUY X
	Various artists feat Blair McCoy - The Very Best Of Gospel Spirit (album)	1st Nov 2004	BUY X
	Blessedstate - The One	2008	BUY X
	Alex Costanzo - Shines Like Gold	4th Dec 2008	BUY X
	Ronnie Mae - Run For The Victory	2009	BUY X
	F-Junior - Oyeo	2009	BUY X
	Global Disco Rockerz - Party Must Go On	25th Aug 2010	BUY X
	BK Duke & Funky Fresh - Remix My Life	10th Dec 2010	BUY X
	Tuklan & Firetime - Jump (Now We Have A Party)	Jun 2011	BUY X
	Rico Bernasconi - Oh No No	24th Jun 2011	BUY X
	Markus d'Ambrosi - The Party Must Go	12th Mar 2016	BUY X
	ZoOom - F.R.I.E.N.D.S	19th Sep 2022	BUY X

Songwriting

	Powersound - Freedom Forever	12th Jun 1995	BUY X
	Intermission - Blow Your Mind	1st Sep 1997	BUY X
	Lori Glori - Come Set Me Free	17th Oct 1997	BUY X

Lori Glori biography

Lori Glori (real name Lori Ham) is an American vocalist born in Oceanside on October 19th. Her dad was a deacon at a Baptist church. Her mom was a manager at a donut shop. However, Lori’s older sisters Denise and Angela wanted to become singers and the 3 girls formed a band, the Ham Sisters. Lori also sung Gospel music in her home town San Francisco. They won many local talent shows but after some time, Denise decided to quit the group and Ham Sisters disbanded.

At the age of 17 she won the 'Miss Black San Francisco' beauty pageant and after that, she toured the world with Bill Summers & Summers Heat for seven years. Back in the United States she has been doing the backing vocals for an impressive list of popular Soul Acts such as Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, Thelma Houston, Barry White, Midnight Star, Cameo and a few others.

She met Joe Hölzel in Germany and decided to settle there after her last tour with Summer Heat. Sheconcentrated successfully on her own career. She has toured with numerous artists such as Jennifer Rush and Mary (German travesty star).

In 1991 Lori signed a contract with producer Frank Farian for the dancefloor hit My Body & Soul. She worked on several projects such as Rythm & Dance Machine (Never, Shingen-O-Dakio), Andi Slavik (Indians Spirits, C&A commercial advertising video), all of them being very successful.

For RTL's - UNESCO gala in New Year 1994, Lori performed Michael Jackson's mega hit We Are The World in German. She was chosen by John de Mol from among other singers that were to sing with a chorus of 110 people from the showbusiness live on RTL TV.

With Dance Music Productions (DMP) Lori Glori has become an important part of several charts-hitting projects. She is the voice behind hits as Intermission's Piece Of My Heart (21 weeks on the German charts, peak position 8) SixDays (11 weeks on the German charts, peak position 20) and Give Peace A Chance, as well as Major T's Keep The Frequency Clear and the L.O.F.T. hits Wake The World and Live It Up. She also took part to Magic Affair's track Magical Love Affair and to Rhythm and Dance Machine's single Never.

Lori also worked with DJ Bobo but this collaboration ended with a trial. Lori did not understand the contract as it was written in German. She was shocked to see that during the live shows her voice was used whereas an other singer was on the stage. The regional court rejected its complaint however. She finally surrendered all rights to DJ Bobo in exchange of approximately 10.000 DM.

In 1997 she joined Blair McCoy (but maybe Blair McCoy is only a scene name for Lori herself) to created the project Holy Groove. The project covered gospel classics and remixed them in the RnB or even dance style (such as Oh Happy Day, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, Amen). An album called The New Sound of Gospel, as well as a single Let It Be (a cover of the Beatles' hit), were released.

In 1998, her voice was featured by the project Xxpolove for the single Ooh La La I Wanna Have Some...

In 1999 she took part to a collective project Rappers Against racism with LaMazz, Jay Supreme and Tooper. They released a single entitled Sorry.

In 2000, she contributed to the project Hotstuff for the self-titled single Hot Stuff.

Lori Glori went through very hard times. After moving back to the US, in Oakland California, this mother of 3 children found herself penniless on the streets and eventually even in Santa Rita County prison, where she started writing new songs.

2004 : Holy Groove's album was re-released as third CD of a gospel compilation entitled The Very Best Of Gospel Spirit

2006 : Lori recorded a new single called Show Me The Way with Mathias Blauenstein, a mix of pop, soul and gospel. On the CD, available from her official website, there were 3 other songs. She currently lives in Switzerland.

2008 : at the end of February, Lori took part to the Swiss Gospel Contest 2008 final, and finally got #3.

Lorenzo Woodard, a German transexuel artist, chose Lory Glory as pseudonym for his carreer. Lori Glori wanted him to change this, so she went to court since she owns the rights on the name. In October, Lorenzo had to change his scene name for Lorielle London.

2009 : Lori Glori recorded a new single entitled Love Not War, and a collaboration with DJ and producer Ronnie Maze entitled Run For The Victory. She was featured on F-Junior's new dance track Oyeo.

2010 : Lori Glori recorded a new song Party Must Go On with the DJ duo Global Disco Rockerz.

2011 : Lori Glori did vocals on a song by Rico Bernasconi entitled Oh No No. Damaris Kofmehl wrote a book about Lori Glori's life, telling how hard her life became.

2012 : Lori published a sample of song You Know What, from forthcoming album of the same title. Single You Make Me Feel So Good was planned for download at the end of December but nothing came out.

2013 : Lori released her new single Shine under her new stage name Lori L Ham.

2014 : in January, Lori released her new single You Know What, including 2 excellent eurodance remixes by Real Thing and raps by Viper (Free 2 Night). She shot the videoclip for a song entitled This Is Our Planet.

2016 : Markus D'ambrosi featured Lori on the song entitled The Party Must Go

2017 : she did vocals on a collaboration with Kendall Rae, Hark It's Christmas

2018 : she released a new single entitled Claim It along with a music video.

2019 : her new single was a collaboration with Randy Norton entitled Shine.

2020 : with Melchior Sultana, she released a song entitled Silver & Gold.

2023 : she recorded a collaboration with eurodance rapper ZoOom entitiled Move Your Body, but the song was never released due to disagreement. She became an ambassador for the Voice Aid Association for Malta

2024 : Lori launched a crowdfunding to allow her cover her living expenses, such as rent, groceries, and her dad Clarence's medical treatment, but also to allow her to be the main actress in "Last Night a DJ Took My Life" (the DJ is actually DJ Bobo), a theater production in Switzerland this year

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Lori Glori biography was last updated Tue, April 30th 2024

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