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Testimony (Gloria Gaynor album)

2019 studio album by Gloria Gaynor

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ85806051 ↗
Source-derived summary

Testimony is the twentieth studio album by American singer Gloria Gaynor. The album was released on June 7, 2019, by Gaither Music Group. It won the Grammy Award for Best Roots Gospel Album at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards. The song "Talkin' 'Bout Jesus" was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Gospel Performance/Song.

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“Testimony (Gloria Gaynor album)” enters the record as 2019 studio album by Gloria Gaynor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Testimony, Gloria and Gaynor can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Testimony, Gloria and Gaynor.
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“Testimony (Gloria Gaynor album)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Testimony, Gloria and Gaynor provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 20, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q85806051. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Testimony (Gloria Gaynor album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.