Adult female singer-songwriter Donna Summer, called the "Queen of dance palace," was born Adrian Gaines on December 31, 1948, in Boston, Massachusetts. After battling with cancer for several years, Donna finally succumbed to the disease in 2012 aged sixty three. Her father, Andrew Gaines, was a butcher and her mother, Mary Gaines, was an instructor. She started to sing as soon as she learnt to speak. She sang ceaselessly from the time she was little. “That is all Donna did," her mother recalled, "She virtually lived to sing. Donna went around the house singing, singing. Donna sang for breakfast, for lunch and for supper.”
Donna’s Life's Work
Donna Summer's debut performance came one Sunday when Donna was ten years old, when a regular singer at her church did not show up. The priest, who knew from her folks of Donna Summer's fondness for singing, invited her to perform instead; expecting, at the least, an amusing spectacle. However, to everyone's surprise the voice that bellowed out of Donna Summer's little body that Sunday morning was irresistibly powerful and exquisite.
"You could not see her if you were on the far side of the third row," Donna’s father remembered, "but you could hear her." She recalled, "I started crying, everyone else started crying. It had been quite a superb moment in my life and at some point when I detected my voice start off I felt like God himself said to me, 'Donna, you are going to be terribly, terribly celebrated.' and I simply knew from that day on that I would be celebrated."
Donna Summer attended Jeremiah E. Burke high school in the state capital, where Donna asterisked with the faculty musicals and was very fashionable. Donna was a trouble maker as a youngster, bent on concealed parties to avoid her parents' strictly implemented curfew. In 1967, at the age of eighteen, solely weeks before her high school graduation, Donna Summer auditioned for and was solid during a production of “Hair”, “The Yankee” social group’s love-rock musical regular to run in Germany. Overcoming her father's initial objections, Donna accepted and flew to Germany with her parents' reluctant approval. Donna Summer learned to talk fluent German, and when Hair finished its run, Donna determined to stay in the city, where she appeared in many different musicals and worked at a studio, singing backup vocals and recording demo tapes. In 1974, still in the city, Donna Summerrecorded her initial solo album, “Girl of the Night”, that scored a serious European hit with the single "The Hostage”; however, it did not crack the Yankee market.
Career Highlights of popular singer- Donna
That same year, Donna Summer married German singer Helmut Sommer. Donna adopted the Anglicized version of his surname as her nom de guerre, and she kept it even after the couple divorced in 1976. In 1975 she co-wrote and recorded a demo version of a beguiling dance palace track known as "Love to like You Baby." Producers liked the demo so much that they decided to make it into a song. The ultimate version, seventeen minutes long, featured Donna’s invitingly thorough vocals and sensual groaning sounds so suggestive, in fact, that a lot of radio stations at the start refused to play the song. Nevertheless, the path-breaking dance palace track became an overnight sensation, skyrocketing to No. 2 on the U.S. singles chart and serving as the titular track of her 2nd album. Building on the success of "Love to like You Baby," she released two more albums in 1976, “A Love Triad” and “4 Seasons of Affection”, both of which were monumental successes. In 1977, Donna Summer released two additional hit albums, “I Keep in Mind Yesterday” and “Once Upon a Time”, and in 1978 her single "Last Dance" from the sound recording of “Give thanks to God It's Weekday” won the award for Best Original Song.
Donna Summer's 1978 album entitled “Live and additional”, became her first to achieve No. 1 on the sign album charts and likewise featured her first No.1 single "MacArthur Park." A year later, Donna achieved the largest industrial success of her career with the album “Unhealthy Women” that instantly spawned two No. 1 singles, "Bad Girls" and "Hot Stuff," making Donna Summer the first feminine creative person to get three No. 1 songs during a single year. Donna Summer briefly abandoned dance palace to unleash two Ramp’s albums: “The Wanderer” (1980) and “Because the Nineteen Seventies gave thanks to the Eighties” (1982). Returning to pop music in 1983, Donna scored her biggest hit of the decade with "She works onerous for the money." The title track, which supported Summer’sfeelings upon encountering a sleeping lavatory attendant at an eating place, has become something of a feminist anthem. By the late Eighties, Donna Summer's quality began to wane and she achieved just one additional top ten hit throughout the last decade, 1989's "This Time I do know It's For Real" from the album “Another Place in Time”.
Donna Summer released solely two albums throughout the 90s, “Mistaken Identity” (1991) and “Yuletide Songs” (1994), neither of which created a lot of a bearing. During these years, the multi-talented Donna Summer took up painting, holding many exhibitions per year and enjoying the acclaim and industrial success. Donna also got involved in “Tilt” during the early 90s, once the big apple magazine according to which Donna Summer had made prejudiced remarks, calling the AIDS epidemic penalty for the sins of homosexuals. Donna Summer vociferously denied creating any such comments and sued the magazine for libel. The case was settled out of court. Donna Summer released her first album in fourteen years, “Crayons” in 2008 to positive reviews and tight sales. Donna Summer married singer-songwriter Bruce Sudano in 1980, and they had 2 kids.
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