Sharon Leal
Sharon Ann Leal( born October 17, 1972) is an American actress and singer.
She is known for her roles in movies such as" Dreamgirls This Christmas Why Did I Get Married?
Why Did I Get Married Too?" and her roles on the television shows" LegacyGuiding Light", and" Boston Public".
Katherine Rosman
Katherine Barnett Rosman( born March 2, 1972) is an American writer and reporter for the New York Times, previously at the Wall Street Journal.
She wrote the article about Natasha Gregson Wagner," Mother ’s Death, a Daughter ’s Life: Remembering Natalie Wood Story".
Brooklyn Sudano
Brooklyn Sudano (born January 5, 1981) is an American actress, singer, and dancer.
She is best known for playing the role of Vanessa Scott on the ABC sitcom "
My Wife and Kids".
She also acted in NBC's action series "Taken" (playing Asha Flynn).
Sudano is the daughter of superstar "Disco Queen" Grammy Award-winning singer Donna Summer and songwriter Bruce Sudano, and the older sister of Amanda Sudano of the music duo Johnnyswim.
Tasha Smith
Tasha Smith( born February 28, 1971) is an American actress, director and producer.
She began her career in a starring role on the NBC comedy series" Boston Common"( 1996 – 97), and she later appeared in numerous movies and television series.
Smith has appeared in films include" The Whole Ten Yards"( 2004)," Daddy's Little Girls"( 2007)," The Longshots"( 2008)," Couples Retreat"( 2009), and" Jumping the Broom"( 2011).
She starred as Angela Williams in the Tyler Perry films" Why Did I Get Married?"( 2007), its sequel" Why Did I Get Married Too?"( 2010), and on the television series based on the movies," For Better or Worse"( 2011–2017).
In 2015, she began a recurring role as Carol Holloway on the Fox musical drama series" Empire".
Later in the same year, Smith made her directorial debut.
Denise Boutte
Denise Boutte is an American actress and model, who has appeared in the films" Why Did I Get Married?" as Trina,, as Mandy," Sister's Keeper" and" Noah's Arc".
She starred in the sitcom" Meet the Browns" as Sasha Brown.
Lamman Rucker
Lamman Rucker( born October 6, 1971) is an American actor.
Rucker began his career on the daytime soap operas" As the World Turns" and" All My Children", before roles in Tyler Perry's films
" Why Did I Get Married?
Why Did I Get Married Too?", and" Meet the Browns", and its television adaptation.
In 2016, he began starring as Jacob Greenleaf in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series," Greenleaf".
Richard T. Jones
Richard Timothy Jones( born January 16, 1972) is an American actor.
Jones is best known for his portrayals of Laveinio in the dramatic film" The Wood"( 1999) and Mike of the dramatic films" Why Did I Get Married?"( 2007) and" Why Did I Get Married Too?"( 2010).
He is also well known for his role as Bruce Van Exel, court services officer on the CBS television series" Judging Amy" that aired from 1999 to 2005.
Michael Jai White
Michael Richard Jai White( born November 10, 1967) is an American actor, director, and martial artist.
He is the first African American to portray a major comic book superhero in a major motion picture, having starred as Al Simmons, the protagonist in the 1997 film" Spawn".
White appeared as Marcus Williams in the Tyler Perry films" Why Did I Get Married?" and" Why Did I Get Married Too?", and starred as the character on the TBS/ OWN comedy- drama television series" Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse".
White portrayed Jax Briggs in and the Cyborg Seth in, the return.
He portrayed boxer Mike Tyson in the 1995 HBO television movie" Tyson".
He also played the title role in the blaxploitation parody film" Black Dynamite", as well as the animated series of the same name.
Amanda Sudano
Amanda Grace Sudano- Ramirez( born August 11, 1982) is an American singer, songwriter, and model, and a member of the musical duo Johnnyswim.
Her parents are singer Donna Summer and composer Bruce Sudano, and one of her older sisters is the actress Brooklyn Sudano.
Donna Summer
LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948May 17, 2012), widely known by her stage name based on her married name Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter and actress.
She gained prominence during the disco era of the late 1970s and became known as the "Queen of Disco", while her music gained a global following.
While influenced by the counterculture of the 1960s, Summer became the lead 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 in Munich, where they recorded influential disco hits such as "Love to Love You Baby" and "I Feel Love", marking her breakthrough into an international career.
Summer returned to the United States in 1975, and other hits such as "Last DanceMacArthur ParkHeaven KnowsHot StuffBad GirlsDim
All the LightsNo More Tears (Enough Is Enough)"
(duet with Barbra Streisand) and "On the Radio" followed.
Summer earned a total of 42 hit singles on the US "Billboard" Hot 100 in her lifetime, with 14 of those reaching the top-ten.
She claimed a top 40 hit every year between 1975 and 1984, and from her first top-ten hit in 1976, to the end of 1982, she had 12 top-ten hits (10 were top-five hits), more than any other act during that time period.
She returned to the Hot 100's top-five in 1983, and claimed her final top-ten hit in 1989 with "This Time
I Know
It's for Real".
She was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach number one on the US "Billboard" 200 chart and charted four number-one singles in the US within a 12-month period.
She also charted two number-one singles on the R&B Singles chart in the US and a number-one single in the United Kingdom.
Her most recent Hot 100 hit came in 1999 with
"I Will Go with You (Con Te Partiro)".
While her fortunes on the Hot 100 waned through those decades, Summer remained a force on the "Billboard" Dance Club Songs chart over her entire career.
Summer died on May 17, 2012, from lung cancer, at her home in Naples, Florida.
She reportedly sold over 100 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time.
She won five Grammy Awards.
In her obituary in "The Times", she was described as the "undisputed queen of the Seventies disco boom" who reached the status of "one of the world's leading female singers."
Giorgio Moroder described Summer's work with them on the song
"I Feel Love" as "really the start of electronic dance" music.
In 2013, Summer was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
In December 2016, "Billboard" ranked her at No. 6 on its list of the Greatest of All Time Top Dance Club Artists .

Question: Why did Brooklyn Sudano's mother die?
Answer: lung cancer