LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012), better known by her stage name Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter, painter and actress. 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 200 chart and charted four number one singles in the U.S. within a 12 month period.
Summer has reportedly sold over 140 million records, making her one of the world’s best-selling artists of all time. She also charted two number-one singles on the R&B charts in the U.S. and one number-one in the U.K.
Summer earned a total of 32 hit singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in her lifetime, with 14 of those reaching the top ten. She claimed a top 40 hit every year between 1975 and 1984 and from her first top 10 hit in 1976, to the end of 1983, she had 12 top ten hits: (10 were top five hits) more than any other act. 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”.
Her most recent Hot 100 hit came in 1999 with “I Will Go with You (Con Te Partiro).”
While her fortunes on the Hot 100 waned through those decades, Summer remained a force on the U.S. Dance/Club Play Songs chart over her entire career.
While 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. Joining a touring version of the musical Hair, she left NYC and spent several years living, acting and singing in Europe, where she met producers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte.
Summer returned to the U.S. in 1975 after the commercial success of the song “Love to Love You Baby”, which was followed by 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)” (Duet with Barbra Streisand) and “On The Radio”. She became known as the “Queen of Disco”, while her music gained a global following.
Summer died on May 17, 2012, at her home in Naples, Florida. 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.” Giorgio Moroder described Summer’s 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. In December 2016, Billboard Magazine ranked her as the 6th most successful dance artist of all-time.
Donna previously released 15 studio albums, 2 LIVE albums, 3 Main compilations and other official compilations of 8 albums.
What a remarkable achievement!!! She may not be with us anymore but her music will continue to live on for many many years to come.
Here are some of her major hits that we all know and love.
This Time I Know It’s For Real
I Will Go with You (Con Te Partiro)
I Feel Love
Last Dance
MacArthur Park
Heaven Knows
Hot Stuff
Bad Girls
No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) (Duet with Barbra Streisand)
On The Radio
An icon, legend and disco queen who will forever be remembered!!!
Hope you enjoyed this special best of Donna Summer as I did.
Nothing beats this kind of music and those set of pipes amazing!!!
A one of a kind artist who can never be replaced.
If you feel the same, then do yourself a favor and head on over to Itunes to purchase all of the above songs and if you can’t wait to download, no problem you can listen to MBC’s compilation now on Spotify.
Website: http://donnasummer.com/
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