Donna Summer performing at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in 2009. US disco singer died Thursday aged 63 in ,  , following a struggle with . During her career, Summer won five and had nineteen number one singles in the U.S. charts. Her first hit was the 1975 track , which was banned by the  . Summer was born in , in 1948 as LaDonna Adrian Gaines. She learned she could sing in her church's gospel choir and then in musicals. In 1973, she married an actor she had met in Austria, Helmuth Sommer, from whom she gets the name "Summer". Before her divorce in 1975, Summer gave birth to Mimi Summer. Five years later, she remarried to Bruce Sudano, a musician, who fathered two daughters, Brooklyn and Amanda.
Donna Summer performing at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in 2009. US disco singer died Thursday aged 63 in , Florida , following a struggle with . During her career, Summer won five and had nineteen number one singles in the US charts. Her first hit was the 1975 track , which was banned by the BBC . Summer was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1948 as LaDonna Adrian Gaines. She learned she could sing in her church's gospel choir and then in musicals. In 1973, she married an actor she had met in Austria, Helmuth Sommer, from whom she gets the name "Summer". Before her divorce in 1975, Summer gave birth to Mimi Summer. Five years later, she remarried to Bruce Sudano, a musician, who fathered two daughters, Brooklyn and Amanda.
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