The late great Donna Summer, who passed away yesterday after a private struggle with lung cancer, started out as a novelty musician of sorts, turning the "orgasm record" electronic and bringing it to the dance floor. However, she soon grew to not only rule the disco boom of the '70s but also to embody its ambitions, doing as much as anyone to define the genre's sexiness, romanticism, and glamour. Check out my profile of the greatest dance diva of all time.
Donna Summer, arguably the most famous singer in the history of disco and one of the most popular female entertainers of the '70s, has passed away at her Key West home at the age of 63, succumbing to the lung cancer she'd secretly fought for the past ten months
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Drift Away by Dobie Gray
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