Singer Donna Summer became known as the "Queen of Disco," defining the genre with her sultry vocals and pulsing rhythms. She used to say she grew up listening to rock 'n' roll and was raised on gospel ...

The Des McAnuff-directed Summer: The Donna Summer Musical begins with a seasoned Donna Summer, or Diva Donna (Dan’yelle Williamson), recounting how in her early days, a colleague asked her what people ...

Donna Summer, the five-time Grammy Award winner who ruled the charts with her disco hits like “Bad Girls and “Last Dance,” died in Florida at the age of 63. The Associated Press reported that she had ...

The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, who transformed music in the 1970s, is the subject of writer-director Des McAnuff's lively stage biography, 'Summer: The Donna Summer Musical.' By Deborah Wilker ...

Donna Summer was a pop icon, five-time Grammy winner, and legendary songbird who scored 42 single hits on Billboard's Hot 100. Songs like "Love to Love You Baby" and "Hot Stuff" illuminate her ...

Though anyone who was 21 or older in 1983 will furiously deny it, the advent of MTV did some really interesting things for pop music: Suddenly, the charts were full of weird British kids with ...

Until I saw Donna Summer a year ago on a Midnight Special with Lou Rawls, I’d viewed her music simply as brilliantly packaged aural sex, nothing too meaty, and, in spite of its implied intimacies, ...

Donna Summer titled her 2003 autobiography "Ordinary Girl." And although the singer-songwriter, who lost her battle with cancer on May 17 at just 63 years old, was often referred to as the Queen of ...