Donna Summer

DONNA SUMMER d2012. American singer and songwriter. She gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s and became known as the "Queen of Disco". Influenced by the counterculture of the 1960s, she became the lead singer of a psychedelic rock band named Crow and moved to New York City. In 1968, she joined a German adaptation of the musical Hair in Munich where she spent several years living, acting and singing.There she met music producers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte and they went on to record influential disco hits together ; "Love to Love You Baby" and "I Feel Love". She returned to the United States in 1976 and enjoyed more hits including ; "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 amassed a total of 32 chart singles on the US Billboard Hot 100 in her lifetime (including 14 Top10 and four No1singles. She died of lung cancer in Florida aged 63 on May17th 2012