[1][2] She rose to fame in Ireland during the 1970s with "One Day at a Time" which spent longer in the Irish charts than any other single to date (90 weeks).
After leaving school, she found work playing piano with another band, before joining the Maurice Lynch Showband as a singer in the late 1960s.
Gloria toured around Ireland singing alongside Johnny McEvoy during the early to mid 1970s before breaking out on her own.
[2][5] She began recording Gospel and Country songs in Nashville and appeared three times on the Praise the Lord show.
[10] She married Don Sherry, a musician with a showband in 1973 and they had a daughter Laura and a son Paul.