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Donna Summer was known as the Queen of Disco, but she was also a pioneer of EDM in the late 1970s. Two years after recording her breakthrough disco hit “Love to Love You Baby,” Summer dropped the groundbreaking electronic dance track “I Feel Love.”
Disco. Donna. Diva. Three words that summed up an era and the woman who helped shape it. LaDonna Andrea Gaines -- whom you know as Donna Summer -- was born in Boston, Mass., and raised on gospel music. But it’s her pulsing dance club anthems “Love to ...
Disco icon Donna Summer has been posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the organization announced on Tuesday, recognizing Summer for a catalog of classics that includes "I Feel Love," "Bad Girls," "She Works Hard for the Money," and "Dim ...
Toby Gad unveiled the music video for “Run (Piano Diaries),” his previously unreleased collaboration with the late Donna Summer, exclusively to Billboard on Friday (June 13). The Queen of Disco’s voice shines as she delivers the ballad’s powerful ...
THE BUSINESS: The disco queen's longtime manager recalls her "inseparable" friendship with the late, great singer. By THR Staff Summer in the "She Works Hard for the Money" days, circa 1983. Watching the news on May 17, I realized everyone has a story ...
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How Donna Summer changed pop music forever
In 1977, Donna Summer released “I Feel Love”, a song so revolutionary that Brian Eno declared it “the sound of the future.” With its machine-perfect Moog synthesizers, hypnotic beat, and soaring vocals, the track redefined disco, pioneered ...
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NEW YORK (AP) — There are giants, and then there is Donna Summer. The Queen of Disco and then some, known for such timeless tunes as “Love to Love You Baby,” “I Feel Love,” “Bad Girls,” “Dim All the Lights,” “On the Radio” and “She ...
As the defining voice of the disco era, Summer wrote many of her globally popular hits including “Love to Love You Baby,” “I Feel Love,” “Bad Girls,” “Dim All the Lights,” “On the Radio,” “She Works Hard for the Money,” “Heaven ...