These 20 songs represent her greatest hits, should-have-been hits, and unforgettable album cuts. Today would have been her 57th birthday, so let’s pay tribute to one of the most passionate vocalists in pop music history. It’s been a decade since we lost Laura Branigan (she died in her sleep of a cerebral aneurysm), but her music will live forever, and those 80’s hits still hold up fabulously decades later.