About: Donna Summer   Goto Sponge  NotDistinct  Permalink

An Entity of Type : wsb:Artist_Person, within Data Space : wasabi.inria.fr associated with source document(s)

AttributesValues
type
label
  • Donna Summer
sameAs
name
  • Donna Summer
gender
  • Female
dbo:genre
dbo:associatedMusicalArtist
  • Giorgio_Moroder
  • Brooklyn_Dreams_(group)
Subject
  • Atlantic Records artists
  • Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees
  • Mercury Records artists
  • 21st-century American singers
  • Songwriters from Florida
  • Grammy Award winners
  • 2012 deaths
  • Songwriters from California
  • Donna Summer
  • Crossover (music)
  • 20th-century American singers
  • Burials in Tennessee
  • African-American Christians
  • American female rock singers
  • American rhythm and blues singers
  • American soul singers
  • 1948 births
  • 20th-century American actresses
  • 21st-century American actresses
  • African-American actresses
  • African-American female singers
  • African-American rock singers
  • American dance musicians
  • American disco musicians
  • American female pop singers
  • American female singer-songwriters
  • American film actresses
  • American rock songwriters
  • American television actresses
  • Cancer deaths in Florida
  • Deaths from lung cancer
  • Geffen Records artists
  • German-language singers
  • Musicians from Boston, Massachusetts
  • Musicians from Nashville, Tennessee
  • Singers from California
  • Singers from Florida
  • Songwriters from Massachusetts
  • Songwriters from Tennessee
  • Women in electronic music
  • Actresses from Boston, Massachusetts
  • American expatriates in Austria
  • American expatriates in Germany
  • People from Naples, Florida
abstract
  • American singer and songwriter, born 31 December 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA and died from cancer 17 May 2012 in Englewood, Florida, USA.Donna, also known as the 'Queen of Disco' got her stage name from Helmut Sommer (3), an Austrian actor to whom she was married for two years. Her sisters are: Dara Bernard and Mary Bernard. In 1980 she married Bruce Sudano, their daughter is Amanda Grace Sudano.Inducted into Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 2013 (Performer).
dbo:abstract
  • LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012), better known by her stage name, Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter, and painter. She gained prominence during the disco era of the late-1970s. A five-time Grammy Award winner, she was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach No. 1 on the United States Billboard album chart and charted four number-one singles in the U.S. within a 12-month period. Summer has reportedly sold over 140 million records, making her one of the world's best-selling artists of all time.While influenced by the counterculture of the 1960s, she became the front singer of a psychedelic rock band named Crow and moved to New York City. Joining a touring version of the musical Hair, she left New York and spent several years living, acting, and singing in Europe, where she met music producers, Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte.Summer returned to the U.S., in 1975 with commercial success of the song 'Love to Love You Baby', followed by a string of other hits, such as %22I Feel Love%22, %22Last Dance%22, %22MacArthur Park%22, %22Heaven Knows%22, %22Hot Stuff%22, %22Bad Girls%22, %22Dim All the Lights%22, %22No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)%22 (duet with Barbra Streisand), and %22On the Radio%22. She became known as the %22Queen of Disco%22, while her music gained a global following.Summer died on May 17, 2012, at her home in Naples, Florida. In her obituary in The Times, Summer was described as the %22undisputed queen of the Seventies disco boom%22 who reached the status of %22one of the world's leading female singers.%22 Moroder described Summer's work with him on the song 'I Feel Love' as %22really the start of electronic dance%22 music. In 2013, Summer was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
schema:alternateName
  • Summer
  • Donna
  • D.S.
  • D Summer
  • D. A. Summer
  • D. Summer
  • D.Summer
  • Dona Samer
  • Donna A. Summer
  • Donna Dummer
  • Donna Sammer
  • Donna Summers
  • Donner Summer
  • Konna Summer
  • Summer D.
  • Summer Donna A
  • Дона Саммер
  • Дона Самър
  • Дона Съмър
  • Донна Саммер
  • ドナ・サマー
schema:disambiguatingDescription
  • soul/disco diva
discogs
homepage
musicbrainz
Musicbrainz GUID
  • b60527cc-54f3-4bbe-a01b-dcf34c95ae14
universally unique identifier
  • 56d8229053a7ddfc01f93d9e
wikipedia
myspace
schema:birthDate
  • 1948-12-31
schema:deathDate
  • 2012-05-17
wsb:BBC_page
wsb:allMusic_page
wsb:amazon_page
wsb:deezer_artist_id
  • 3521
wsb:deezer_fans
wsb:deezer_page
Faceted Search & Find service v1.13.91 as of Mar 24 2020


Alternative Linked Data Documents: Sponger | ODE     Content Formats:       RDF       ODATA       Microdata      About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data]
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3229 as of Jul 10 2020, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Single-Server Edition (94 GB total memory)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2025 OpenLink Software