Singer. She is best remembered for her acclaimed rendition of the Charles Trenet song "I Wish You Love" which peaked at number three on the 1964 United States R&B popularity listings. Born Gloria Wilson, she was raised in a working-class family. After singing in the choir of her families local African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church choir, she was strongly encouraged by her peers and relations respectively due in part to constant praise of her vocal range. In 1944, she entered an Amateur Night singing contest at the Apollo Theatre and won first prize. After being befriended by fellow jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, she began her career with Fontana Labels and from there would go on to enjoy a successful career as a professional jazz singer. For the next 65 years, she became a familiar voice within the United States Pop and R&B charts, sharing equal ranking alongside such contemporaries as Carmen McRae, Sarah Vaughan, Johnny Mathis, Ray Charles, and Billy Eckstine. She would go on to record over 400 songs and went on to record 30 solo albums, some of which included "Miss Gloria Lynne" (1958), "Lonely and Sentimental" (1959), "Day In, Day Out" (1960), "He Needs Me" (1961), "Gloria Blue" (1962), "Gloria Lynne at the Las Vegas Thunderbird" (1963), "After Hours" (1964), "Soul Serenade" (1965), "Where It's At" (1966), "The Other Side of Gloria Lynne" (1967), "Here, There, & Everywhere" (1968), "Happy and In Love" (1970), "A Very Gentle Sound" (1972), "Love's Finally Found Me" (1977), "No Detour Ahead" (1993), "A Time for Love" (1994), "This One's On Me" (1997), and "From My Heart to Yours" (2007). During her career, she was the founder, and president, of Family Bread Music, Inc., was a regular parishioner of the Methodist church, was an active Democrat and civil rights activist, had been recognized as the 1996 recipient of International Women of Jazz Award, was a 2007 inductee into the National Black Sports and Entertainment Hall of Fame, was a prominent lyricist whose most notable work was Herbie Hancock's 1962 song "Watermelon Man," and she was married to record producer Harry Alleyne from 1948 to 1968 (their union ended in divorce and produced one son, musician Richard Alleyne). After retiring from singing and song writing in 2008, she spent the final years of her life devoted to family and charitable causes until her death from complications of a heart attack.