The evocative sounds of Donna Summer songs are instantly recognizable. While her music was decidedly disco in tempo, her groundbreaking use of synthesizers set her sound apart and set the stage for a ...

It’s too easy to reduce Donna Summer to her "queen of disco" moniker. No doubt, her glistening dance anthems defined an era, but nearly 50 years after her first hit and a decade after her death at age ...

Donna Summer grew up singing in church, raising her voice in praise and prayer, but became a superstar by lowering her voice in orgasmic moans singing her breakout song, “Love to Love You Baby.” That ...

She was known as Queen of Disco, but Donna Summer went through most of her life hating the label. In "Summer: The Donna Summer Musical" at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, you can't miss that message, ...

When the pandemic hit, and we were all trapped in our houses, pop divas the world over seemed to agree on one thing: it's time to dance, dammit. In the new Max documentary Love to Love You, Donna ...

In the 1970s, Donna Summer was the undisputed Queen of Disco, a powerhouse vocal talent and innovative songwriter whose lusty, chart-topping anthems defined a hedonistic era. In private, however, ...

In the mid-to-late 1970s, disco music and dancing were all the rage. Movies like “Saturday Night Fever,” popular nightclubs like New York’s Studio 54 and white-jacketed deejays in glass-walled ...

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — With the production “Summer: the Donna Summer Musical” opening at Proctors on Tuesday, the Schenectady theater is returning big touring shows to the area. Make no mistake about it, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Donna Summer died Thursday after a battle with cancer. The 63-year-old ...

Yet unlike Michael Jackson or Aretha Franklin, it was a designation she wasn't comfortable embracing. "I grew up on rock 'n' roll," Summer once said when explaining her reluctance to claim the title.

Charis Gullage is happy — no, make that ecstatic — to be a part of the national touring cast of “Summer: The Donna Summer Musical.” And she is beyond excited to play Disco Donna in the iconic ...

Donna Summer, the Queen of Disco in the '70s and '80s, died Thursday morning after a battle with cancer, TMZ first reported. She was 63. Summer was in Naples, Fla., at the time of her death. According ...