Donna Summer

Known for ActingBorn 1948-12-31Died 2012-05-17Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Donna Summer (born LaDonna Adrian Gaines; December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012) was an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s and became known as the "Queen of Disco", while her music gained a global following. Influenced by the counterculture of the 1960s, Summer became the lead singer of a psychedelic rock band named Crow and moved to New York City. In 1968 she joined a German adaptation of the musical Hair in Munich, where she spent several years living, acting, and singing. There, she met music producers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, and they went on to record influential disco hits together such as "Love to Love You Baby" and "I Feel Love", marking Summer's breakthrough into international music markets. Summer returned to the United States in 1976, and more hits such as "Last Dance", her version of "MacArthur Park", "Heaven Knows", "Hot Stuff", "Bad Girls", "Dim All the Lights", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" with Barbra Streisand, and "On the Radio" followed. Summer amassed a total of 42 hit singles on the US Billboard Hot 100 in her lifetime, with 14 of those reaching the Top 10. She claimed a top-40 hit every year between 1975 and 1984, and from her first top-ten hit in 1976, to the end of 1982, she had 12 top-ten hits (10 were top-five hits), more than any other act during that time period. She returned to the Hot 100's top five in 1983, and claimed her final top-ten hit in 1989 with "This Time I Know It's for Real". She was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach the top of the US Billboard 200 chart and charted four number-one singles in the US within a 12-month period. She also charted two number-one singles on the R&B Singles chart in the US and a number-one single in the United Kingdom. Her most recent Hot 100 hit came in 1999 with "I Will Go with You (Con te partirò)". While her fortunes on the Hot 100 waned in subsequent decades, Summer remained a force on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart throughout her entire career. Summer died on May 17, 2012, from lung cancer, at her home in Naples, Florida. She sold over 100 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. She won five Grammy Awards. In her obituary in The Times, she was described as the "undisputed queen of the Seventies disco boom" who reached the status of "one of the world's leading female singers." Moroder described Summer's work on the song "I Feel Love" as "really the start of electronic dance" music. In 2013, Summer was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In December 2016, Billboard ranked her sixth on its list of the "Greatest of All Time Top Dance Club Artists". Description above from the Wikipedia article Donna Summer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

The Donna Summer Special

Starparade

Donna Summer - Live and More Encore!

VH1 Divas 2000: A Tribute to Diana Ross

A Hot Summer Night with Donna

The Grammys

Soundbreaking

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Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's

Sean Combs: The Reckoning

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

70 Years of Youth Revolt

Disneyland's 30th Anniversary Celebration

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Disco Europe Express

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: More 1978

Best of Disco Star Parade 70-80

Women in Rock

Il était une fois Champs-Élysées

Dinah!

Hit Man Returns - David Foster & Friends

Inches

High Energy: Disco on Amphetamines

Family Matters

Champs-Elysées

Charlie's Angels

Donald Duck's 50th Birthday

The Power of One: The Pokémon 2000 Movie Special

Eurotrash

The Early Show

Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Sacrée soirée

Walt Disney World's 25th Anniversary Party

The Mike Douglas Show

Thank God It's Friday

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Intimate Portrait

Viña del Mar International Song Festival

The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's

TV Story Superstar

Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers)

Les Enfants de la Pop 80's

Donna Summer - Live from New York

Soul Divas