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Best 21 Donna Summer Facts

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1- Summer is the mother to modern-day techno music

2- She Speaks German fluently

3- Her Friends Called Her “The Queen

4- Donna Summer Was one of seven children – she had 5 sisters and 1 brother.

5- She has won five Grammy Awards between 1979 and 1998 and six American Music Awards.

6- Donna Summer Ranked #37 on VH1’s Greatest Women of Rock N Roll

7- She has played the role of Aunt Oona in the U.S. TV series, ‘Family Matters’

8- Donna Summer was born LaDonna Adrian Gaines on December 31, 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts

9- One of Summer’s first singing gigs was as a background vocalist for the rock group Three Dog Night during the 1970s.

10- In December 2016, Billboard ranked her as the 6th most successful dance artist of all time

11- In 1998, Summer became the very first recording artist to receive a Grammy for “Best Dance Recording.”

12- In 2013, Summer was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

13- She was seen in the 1978 disco film ‘Thank God It`s Friday’.

14- Donna Summer Ranked #80 on VH1’s 100 Sexiest Artists.

15- She was a lifelong Democrat.

 16- in The Times, she was described as the “undisputed queen of the Seventies disco boom” 

17- Bruce Springsteen, a great admirer of hers

18- Her father was a butcher, and her mother was a schoolteacher

19- Dona Summers has recorded 17 studio albums throughout her career.

20- Donna summer Was the first artist to score three consecutive US #1 albums.

21- Summer died on May 17, 2012, from lung cancer, at her home in Naples, Florida


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