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Donna Adrian Gaines, known professionally as Donna Summer, was an American singer and songwriter. 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.
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entertainment · American singer (1948–2012) · singer · songwriter · composer · recording artist · musician · actor · pop singer · also Donna Summer, LaDonna Gaines, Donna Sommer, Donna Gaines, Donna Gains, Summer
Born 31 December 1948 · Died 17 May 2012 · Q908933
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“I wanted this album to have a lot of different directions on it. I did not want it to be any one baby. I just wanted it to be a sampler of flavors and influences from all over the world. There”
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Published video “Last Dance (Night of the Proms, Belgium, 2005) 🎤 Donna Summer at Her Best #donnasummer #lastdance”.
Published video “Donna Summer - Last Dance (Night Of The Proms - Belgium, November 5, 2005)”.
Published video “The song that changed dance music forever 🪩⚡ #DonnaSummer #IFeelLove #DiscoQueen #YTShorts”.
Published video “Donna Summer - I Feel Love (Night Of The Proms - Belgium, November 5, 2005)”.
Published video “Donna Summer - "I Feel Love" at The Midnight Special on NBC in 1978”.
Published video “Donna Summer - "Bad Girls" in 1980”.
Published video “Donna Summer - Hot Stuff- 1979📍”.
Published video “Donna Summer - Queen ♥️”.
Published video “Donna Summer - State of Independence”.
Published video “Donna Summer - Happy National Disco Day!”.
Released album “Hot Stuff - The Original Maxi-Singles Collection Part I”.
Released album “I Feel Love - The Original Maxi-Singles Collection Part II”.
Summer's Cats Without Claws was also re-released in celebration of its 40th anniversary, debuting on two U
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Was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame
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Released album “On the Radio: Greatest Hits (Expanded 2CD)”.
The Guardian: Kanye West and Donna Summer estate reach settlement over unauthorised use of I Feel Love
The Guardian: Kanye West sued by estate of Donna Summer over ‘stealing’ I Feel Love
The Guardian: ‘I was decadent, I was stupid, I was a fool’: the dark days of Donna Summer
Summer's She Works Hard For The Money album was re-released with additional mixes to commemorate the album's 40th anniversary
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By Summer's estate subtitled as 40th Anniversary Edition
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Released album “I’m a Rainbow: Recovered & Recoloured”.
The Guardian: Donna Summer’s greatest songs – ranked!
Summer's estate released a reedited version of her ninth studio album I'm a Rainbow, subtitled Recovered & Recoloured
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The Guardian: The 100 greatest UK No 1s: No 4, Donna Summer – I Feel Love
Released album “Encore”.
Released album “The Best Disco Album in the World... Ever!”.
Released album “Summer: The Original Hits”.
Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, a biographical musical featuring Summer's songs, began performances on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, following a 2017 world premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego
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The Guardian: From Donna Summer to Derek Jarman: gay stars reveal the artworks that changed their lives
Released album “Singles… Driven by the Music”.
Released album “Hits, Singles & More”.
Released album “Donna”.
Released album “Greatest: Donna Summer”.
Released album “Love to Love You Donna”.
Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2013).
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A year after her death, Summer was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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Released album “I Feel Love: The Collection”.
Released album “Live in New York 1999”.
After four prior nominations, Summer was posthumously announced to be one of the 2013 inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and was inducted on April 18, 2013, at Los Angeles' Nokia Theater
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Died 2012-05-17.
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Aged 63, at her home in Naples, Florida, from lung cancer
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Released album “DMC Greatest Mixes Vol. Three”.
Released album “DMC Greatest Mixes Vol. Four”.
Released album “Greatest Remixes: I Feel Love”.
From lung cancer at her home in Naples, Florida
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Released album “DMC Greatest Mixes Vol. Five”.
Released album “DMC Greatest Mixes Vol. Two”.
Released album “DMC Greatest Mixes Vol. One”.
Summer was a guest judge on the show Platinum Hit, in an episode entitled "Dance Floor Royalty"
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Summer appeared as a guest celebrity, singing alongside contestant Prince Poppycock, on the television show America's Got Talent
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Summer gave an interview with Allvoices
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Summer recorded a version of the Dan Fogelberg song "Nether Lands" for a Fogelberg tribute project
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Donna Summer appeared at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert for Barack Obama
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Released album “Crayons”.
Summer released her first studio album of fully original material in 17 years, entitled Crayons
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As part of Summer's final studio album Crayons but never released
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Released album “20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Donna Summer, Volume 2”.
Released album “Gold”.
Released album “Golden Favourites”.
Released album “The Ultimate Collection”.
And 2005, Summer's success on the dance charts continued with the songs "You're So Beautiful" and "I Got Your Love"
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Summer was inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame as an artist, alongside the Bee Gees and Barry Gibb
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Summer re-recorded 'No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)' with the Irish pop band Westlife (with a live performance) for the compilation album, DiscoMania
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Released album “The Journey: The Very Best of Donna Summer”.
Released album “20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Donna Summer”.
Summer issued her autobiography, Ordinary Girl: The Journey, and released a best-of set titled The Journey: The Very Best of Donna Summer
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Released album “Heineken Night Live Dance to the Music!”.
Summer participated in VH1's third annual Divas special, dedicated to Diana Ross; she sang the Supremes hit "Reflections", and her own material for the show
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Released album “The Wanderer / She Works Hard for the Money”.
Released album “Millennium”.
Released album “VH1 Presents Live & More Encore!”.
Released album “Classic Donna Summer”.
Released album “Donna Summer”.
Summer was asked to do the VH1 Divas Live '99 concert special, which featured other music legends such as Cher, Tina Turner and Whitney Houston
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With her rendition of "I Will Go with You (Con te partirò)"
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Released album “Love to Love You Baby / Four Seasons of Love”.
Summer returned as Aunt Oona on the show's eighth season episode, "Pound Foolish"
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Released album “I’m a Rainbow”.
Where she took time off from show business to focus on painting, a hobby she had developed in the 1980s
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Released album “Christmas Spirit”.
Released album “Endless Summer: Donna Summer’s Greatest Hits”.
Summer released her first holiday album, Christmas Spirit
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Released album “This Time I Know It’s for Real”.
Released album “The Donna Summer Anthology”.
Summer received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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Released album “Mistaken Identity”.
Summer sued New York magazine when it printed an old story about the rumors as fact
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Released ep “12″ers”.
Released album “The Best of Donna Summer”.
Released album “Golden Stars”.
Released album “Dance Collection”.
Summer sent a letter to ACT UP apologizing for the statements, adding that they were "a terrible misunderstanding"
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Released album “Another Place and Time”.
Summer worked with the team of Stock Aitken Waterman and scored her first top ten US hit in six years with "This Time I Know It's for Real", which would be her fourteenth and final top ten hit of her career
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Released album “All Systems Go”.
Released album “The Dance Collection: A Compilation of Twelve Inch Singles”.
Harold Faltermeyer wrote the title song for the German ski film Fire and Ice, and thought Summer would be ideal to sing the song
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronic Recording for Carry On (1985).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Inspirational Performance (1985).
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Summer's sang at the nationally televised 50th Presidential Inaugural Gala the day before the second inauguration of Ronald Reagan
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Released album “The Summer Collection: Greatest Hits”.
And peaked at number 40 on the Billboard 200, her lowest to chart in her career at the time
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Released album “Cats Without Claws”.
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Inspirational Performance for He's a Rebel (1984).
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Released album “Summernight”.
Released album “She Works Hard for the Money”.
Released album “A Blue Live Lady”.
Released album “Walk Away: Collector’s Edition (The Best of 1977–1980)”.
Released album “Hot Summer Night”.
With the single, "She Works Hard for the Money", off the album of the same name, which was released off of Mercury Records after it was found she owed Casablanca one more album
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Summer, Moroder and Belotte had set to work on the next Geffen release
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Released album “The Wanderer”.
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for Hot Stuff (1980).
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Summer had her own nationally televised special, The Donna Summer Special, which aired on ABC
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Left Casablanca Records for Geffen Records
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Released album “On the Radio: Greatest Hits, Volumes I & II”.
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for Last Dance (1979).
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Released album “Bad Girls”.
Summer performed the ballad "Mimi's Song" on the globally televised Music for UNICEF Concert special, which aimed at raising funds and awareness for children across the globe
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Around 1979–80, Summer became a born-again Christian.
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Summer scored her first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 with her rendition of the Jimmy Webb ballad "MacArthur Park", which topped the chart for three weeks and became her fourth gold-certified single; of Webb
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Released album “Live and More”.
Summer first topped the Billboard 200 with the live album, Live and More, thus beginning a streak of three consecutive number one albums, including Bad Girls (1979) and the compilation album, On the Radio: Greatest Hits
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Released album “I Remember Yesterday”.
Released album “Greatest Hits”.
Released album “Once Upon a Time…”.
Summer released the concept album I Remember Yesterday
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Released album “The Greatest Hits of Donna Summer”.
Released album “Love to Love You Baby”.
Released album “Four Seasons of Love”.
Released album “A Love Trilogy”.
After three years of marriage, she and Helmuth Sommer divorced
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Summer issued two more albums—A Love Trilogy and Four Seasons of Love—which, despite it charting lower than Love to Love You Baby, would also be certified gold in the United States
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Moroder sent the song to several American record labels, hoping to seek a deal and soon grabbed the attention of Neil Bogart, president of Casablanca Records
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Summer first began performing under the name "Donna Sommer", which later changed to "Donna Summer"; the latter spelling was the one used when her first single, "The Hostage", was released in 1974.
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Released album “Lady of the Night”.
And gave birth to their daughter, Natalia Pia Melanie "Mimi" Sommer, the same year
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She married Helmuth Sommer in 1973, and gave birth to their daughter, Natalia Pia Melanie "Mimi" Sommer, the same year.
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Her second single "If You Walkin' Alone" on Philips Records, was released; this was followed in 1971 by a third single, a remake of the Jaynetts' 1963 hit, "Sally Go 'Round the Roses", from a one-off European deal with M
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Polydor released Summer's first single, as Donna Gaines, a version of "Aquarius" (sung in German as "Wassermann") from the musical Haare (Hair)
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Joined the German adaptation of the musical Hair in Munich, where she spent several years living, acting, and singing
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Summer joined the blues rock band Crow
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Born 1948-12-31.
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