Latest Release
- 19 APR 2024
- 8 Songs
- Bad Girls · 1979
- I Feel Love: The Collection · 1977
- I Remember Yesterday · 1977
- Bad Girls (Deluxe Edition) · 1979
- Donna Summer · 1982
- On the Radio: Greatest Hits, Vol. I & II · 1979
- I Remember Yesterday · 1977
- Hot Stuff - Single · 2020
- On the Radio: Greatest Hits, Vol. I & II · 1978
- Another Place & Time · 1951
Essential Albums
Artist Playlists
- Disco's brightest star brought drama to her biggest hits.
- Pop alchemists and synth innovators who roll with disco's queen.
- Hear the Queen of Disco's rise from theatre to synth-pop.
Live Albums
More To Hear
- “Hot Stuff” extended the Queen of Disco’s reign.
- Mike and Adam discuss the Beastie Boys Book they wrote together.
- Jams from Outkast, Stevie Wonder, Jackson 5, and Donna Summer.
- An eclectic blend of house and disco.
About Donna Summer
Dubbed the “Queen of Disco”, Boston-born singer and songwriter Donna Summer notched 14 Top 10 US hits in a remarkable career that spanned multiple genres, including gospel and rock. • Summer began singing in church and later fronted a rock band called The Crow. She moved to Germany in the late ’60s after landing a role in the musical Hair. • While working as a session vocalist in Germany, Summer met producer-songwriters Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte. The three wrote 1975’s “Love to Love You Baby”, an orgasmic disco smash that reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. • Summer, Moroder, and Bellotte collaborated on numerous era-defining disco hits, including 1977’s fully synthetic “I Feel Love”, a landmark track in the history of electronic music. • In 1979, Summer became the first female artist to score three No. 1 hits in a single year, topping the Hot 100 with “Bad Girls”, the rock-tinged “Hot Stuff”, and the Barbra Streisand duet “No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)”. • Summer remained relevant in the ’80s with the New Wave-influenced hits “The Wanderer” and “She Works Hard for the Money”, both of which reached the Top 5. • In 1998, Summer won the first-ever Grammy for Best Dance Performance, for “Carry On”, produced by Moroder. • In 2013, Summer was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
- HOMETOWN
- Boston, MA, United States
- BORN
- 31 December 1948
- GENRE
- Pop