Born on this day, LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012 R.I.P.), known by her stage name, Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter, and painter. She gained prominence during the disco era of the late 1970s. A five-time Grammy Award winner, she was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach No. 1 on the United States Billboard album chart and charted four number-one singles in the United States within a 12-month period. Summer has reportedly sold over 130 million records, making her one of the worlds best-selling artists of all time. While influenced by the counterculture of the 1960s, she became the front singer of a psychedelic rock band named Crow and moved to New York City. Joining a touring version of the musical Hair, she left New York and spent several years living, acting, and singing in Europe, where she met music producers, Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte. She returned to the United States, in 1975 with mass commercial success of the song Love to Love You Baby. Over the following years Summer followed this success with a string of other hits, such as I Feel Love, Last Dance, MacArthur Park, Heaven Knows, Hot Stuff, Bad Girls, Dim All the Lights, No More Tears (Enough Is Enough), and On the Radio. She became known as the Queen of Disco, while her music gained a global following. Diagnosed with lung cancer, Summer died on May 17, 2012, at her home in Naples, Florida. In her obituary in The Times, Summer was described as the undisputed queen of the Seventies disco boom who reached the status of one of the worlds leading female singers. Moroder described Summers work with him 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. Thanks for the fantastic music Donna.....; )
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