Date of Death: May 17, 2012 (63)
Birth Place: Brookline, MA, USA
Donna Summer was born in Boston on New Year’s Eve, 1948. She embraced the core tenets of gospel as a young singer while cutting her teeth with a local rock band and in European musicals, developing an individual vocal élan that also married the best elements of Rock, R&B, and Disco.
Her signature style is on full display on The Original Hits in such iconic tracks as forever-seductive “Love To Love You Baby,” the defiantly declarative “Bad Girls,” the MTV-era female-empowerment anthem “She Works Hard For The Money,” the fiery dance/rock mesh of “Hot Stuff,” and the urgent ballad-to-crescendo disco blend of “Last Dance.”
Even though Summer sadly passed away in 2012, her cultural impact and sonic legacy carries ever onward, and she garnered a well-deserved posthumous induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.
From: Photo Flashback: Inside the 2018 Legacy Robe Ceremonies!
From: Photo Flashback: Inside the 2018 Legacy Robe Ceremonies!
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Donna Summer has written 1 shows including Summer: The Donna Summer Musical (Composer & Lyricist).
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