Gayle Moran

{{Short description|Jazz vocalist, keyboardist, and songwriter}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{BLP sources|date=May 2010}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Gayle Moran

| image = 300px

| caption = Gayle Moran, Blue Note Jazz Club, New York City, 10 December 2016

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| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist

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| instrument = Vocals, piano, keyboards, synthesizers, organ

| genre = Jazz
Jazz fusion

| occupation = Vocalist
Pianist
Keyboardist
Composer

| years_active = 1974–present

| label = Columbia

| website =

}}

Gayle Moran (born 1943) is an American vocalist, keyboardist, and songwriter. She is from Spring Arbor, Michigan and graduated from Spring Arbor High School (now Spring Arbor University) in 1961.{{Cite news|url=http://womenslifestyle.com/chick-corea/|title=Chick Corea|work=Women's Lifestyle Magazine|access-date=2017-08-10|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190202153702/http://womenslifestyle.com/chick-corea/|archive-date=2 February 2019|url-status=dead}} She was a member of the Mahavishnu Orchestra during the mid-1970s,{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p7023/biography|pure_url=yes}}|title=Biography: Mahavishnu Orchestra|last=Yanow|first=Scott|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=11 May 2010}} appearing on Apocalypse (1974) and Visions of the Emerald Beyond (1975).

She later appeared on multiple recordings by her husband Chick Corea (whom she married in 1972): Return to Forever's 1977 album Musicmagic, the Chick Corea solo albums The Leprechaun (1975), My Spanish Heart (1976), Mad Hatter (1978), Secret Agent (1978) and Touchstone (1982). She participated in the making of "Afterlife" from the soundtrack to the 2007 film War starring Jet Li and Jason Statham.

Other guest appearances include "The Gracious Core", on Mark Isham's album Castalia, and the title track from the 1976 David Sancious & Tone release, Transformation (The Speed of Love).

She recorded one album under her own name, I Loved You Then ... I Love You Now (1979).

She appeared on Chick Corea's Antidote (2019) album, with The Spanish Heart Band and Rubén Blades.