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Donna Summer (natural Donna Andrea Gaines on December 31, 1948) is an American pop music singer best known for a string of disco music hits in the 1970s that earned her the title "Queen of Disco".
Career Summer was the rarity in the Seventies disco scene because her career began before a disco explosion & continued afterwards. Potentially though she is one of a right-known creative person of the disco era, Summer has covered different genres including R&B, rock and roll and gospel music, earning her Grammy Awards in those categories. Her act is however critically acclaimed & remains one of a couple of disco creative person accepted by modern rock critics. Innate inside Boston, Massachusetts, Summer began performing in her church's choir. She late joined a rock band known as the Crow. Two or three months prior to graduating from either senior high school, Summer dropped out & joined a German productions of Hair, Godspell, and Show Boat over the next couple years. She within time settled in Europe, joining the Viennese Folk Opera & participating within many musical comedy. Fallowing resettling inside Munich, Germany, Summer married Helmut Sommer ("Summer" is an anglicization of his family name) & did various musical jobs around studios & theaters for many years. Within 1971, Summer released "Sally Go 'Round the Roses", her 1st solo recording. A lone was abortive, but, & Summer got to hold off until 1974 to launch a solo career. Therein season, she, Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte (who met assisting Three Dog Night in the studio) worked together to produce "The Hostage", the European hit. Lady of the Nighttime, Summer's number one LP, was freed around 1974 with moderate success within Europe. Summer recorded "Love To Love You Baby", which was a brobdingnagian European hit. Casablanca Records soon began distributing the album in the United States, and it became the sensation there too. This was followed by an album, Love to Love Smart shoppers Young child, critically acclaimed so & okay,, notable for including the xvii-microscopic version of the title track. This established the pattern that mass produced Summer unusual in the disco globe: she focused even as much, in case does'nt supplementary, in good-length albums instead of singles. Continuing to function using Moroder & Bellotte, Love Trilogy (1976) and a concept album Seasons of Love (1976) were hits, though not when popular when Love to Love That you Infant. I personally Remember Yesterday (1977) included a memorable hit only "I Feel Love", a number 1 hit song recorded by having an totally synthesized backing track. This song, which became the major hit, is staggeringly influential in the development of disco, electronica and techno music, thanks to Moroder's innovative production. Another Period Upon the Time was freed shortly fallowing I personally Remember Yesterday; it was a second construct album, on a fairy tale of Cinderella. When acting (& releasing the Grammy-winning song on the soundtrack) in the comedy ''Thank God It's Friday, Summer released a live album Live and More'', which became another smash hit album and included the 17-minute long studio recorded cover of "MacArthur Park". Summer's songwriting was showcased in Bad Girls (album) (1979), which included the hit lone in the title track, likewise when "Hot Stuff", which won Summer a Grammy for Right Female Rock Vocalist. While the greatest hits album, On the Radio, became a #1 hit, Summer was the 1st creative person sustaining iii sequentially #1 double albums. Summer so decided to leave Casablanca & sign to Geffen Records, then good starting higher. Her foremost Geffen album was A Wanderer (1980), which included additional rock and roll and R&B influences. A watch-higher album, ''I personally'm the Rainbow'', was does'nt discharged until 1996 because Geffen did not believe it was expert plenty. Instead, Geffen experienced Summer drop Moroder & Bellotte, her longtime ballad maker, & paired her by having music sensation Quincy Jones on the self-titled album Donna Summer, which produced the dance hit "Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)", the Top 40 hit "Woman in Me" & a Vangelis penned "State of Independence", which became a vast hit around Europe by owning its New Age feel and star chorus that involved Christopher Cross and Michael Jackson. This song was a inspiration for Quincy Jones to late produce "We Are the World". Summer continued her operate by using Geffen, down a road releasing the megahit She Works Arduous for the Money, which involved the easily-remembered hit in the title track. Summer's career was non forgoing disceptation. In the Eighties, the singer, the born-reborn Christian, was accused of making comments critical of gayness, so alienating a big a share of her fan base. Nevertheless, Summer has typically said around interviews that she never manufactured a homophobic remarks attributed to her. Although her career began to slow down in the mid-1980s, it was revamped in 1989 sustaining her Stock Aitken Waterman collaboration Another Place & Period album. A foremost only, "This Time I Know It's for Real", became the immense hit, number one inside Europe & late in the United States, & brought her back to the top of the stock and index charts. The fresh remix of "I Feel Love" was the large UK hit concluded agawithin in 1995. Inside 1991, Summer freed a ill-doomed LP Mistaken Identity, which involved songs criticizing racism (a title track) & a 1st Gulf War ("Let There Be Peace"). Throughout a 1990s, Summer has continued to work; she recorded the duet using Liza Minnelli ("Does He Love You?") & produced many dance hits like "Melody of Love", which became a Hoarding first dance hit of the month; "I Will Go with You", a dance version of the beautiful Andrea Bocelli song "Con Te Partirò"; and "You're So Beautiful", the club anthem she co-wrote using legendary DJ Tony Moran. Too when her #1 U.S dance chart hit "Love is a Healer. In 2003, Donna Summer released a greatest-hits compilation called The Journey, which rocketed into the UK Top 10 in the following year, thanks to her appearance on ITV1 show Discomania. Summer added to her credits in October 2004, when she performed "God Bless America" during the seventh-inning stretch at Game 2 of the 2004 World Series at Boston's Fenway Park. As of 2005, Summer has received 5 Grammy Awards and 6 American Music Awards, as well as 24 gold and platinum certifications in the United States and 19 gold and silver certifications in Great Britain. Also in the summer of 2005 Donna will tour for the first time in 5 years and opened her first official Web site ( [http://www.donnasummer.com/]] ). Over 100 million copies of her records have been sold worldwide. Today, Summer and her family make their home in the Conejo Valley in Southern California.
Discography THESE SALES AND CHART POSITIONS ARE NOT TRUE, if you want to check real sales www.rockonthenet.com/artists-s/donnasummer.htm gold=500k copies; platinum= 1 mil copies; If you want to check chart positions; www.allmusic.com for UK certifications www.bpi.co.uk
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