Donna Summer was an American singer and songwriter who helped popularise disco worldwide, becoming a global star and one of the most influential artists in the genre.
Iconic songs like ‘I Feel Love’, ‘Love To Love You Baby’, ‘Hot Stuff’, and ‘Bad Girls’ brought Summer to prominence during the disco boom of the 1970s.
A frequent collaborator with Italian synth composer Giorgio Moroder, Donna Summer went on to sell over 100 million records worldwide making her one of the best-selling artists of all time.
During her commercial peak from 1975-1984 she had 12 top 10 hits on the Billboard charts (10 of which reached the top 5) more than any other artist of that era.
Summer won a total of five Grammy Awards, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013, a year after her death.
She is considered to have changed the face of dance music and remains immensely influential with pop artists to this day.
Who is Donna Summer’s husband Helmuth Sommer?
Donna Summer was married twice. During her time in Munich, she married Austrian actor Helmuth Sommer (from which she borrowed the anglicized ‘Summer’ for her stage name) in 1973 and had her first child Natalia Pia Melanie Sommer.
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