LaDonna Adrian Gaines, known professionally as Donna Summer, was an American singer and songwriter. She gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s and became known as the “Queen of Disco”, while her music gained a global following.
Gaines was born on December 31, 1948, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Andrew and Mary Gaines, and was the third of seven children. She was raised in the Boston neighborhood of Mission Hill. Her father was a butcher, and her mother was a schoolteacher.
Did Donna Summer speak German?
According to the report, Ladonna Adrian Gaines, who died last week at 63, only became Donna Summer after she moved to Germany in the late 1960s and married an Austrian called Helmuth Sommer. She anglicized his name for her stage name. She spoke fluent German and acted in German musical theatre; she was even briefly a member of the Vienna opera company, the Volksoper. It was in Germany that she met Giorgio Moroder, who had been part of the Berlin music scene since the mid-sixties. The instrumental music in Love to Love You Baby and I Feel Love was all Moroder’s.
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