In the summer of 2013, local cabaret singer Anais St. John watched the late disco diva Donna Summer’s induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. “I was really moved,” St. John recalled this week. “I ...

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 ...

Donna Summer, Gloria Gaynor, Freda Payne, and other fiery divas started a Disco Inferno that lit up the 80s with songs like RESCUE ME, I WILL SURVIVE, and HOT STUFF. Grab your platform shoes and get ...

(CNN) — “Intimate” is an overused word in biographical documentaries, but with her daughter, Brooklyn Sudano, serving as co-director “Love to Love You, Donna Summer” more than fits that description, ...

This article was written in partnership with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. This weekend, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and Principal Pops Conductor Byron Stripling will open the season with ...

Editor’s Note: Mark Coleman is the author of “Playback: From the Victrola to MP3, 100 Years of Music Machines and Money (Da Capo)”. He wrote about Donna Summer in The New Rolling Stone Album Guide ...

There haven’t really been parties during the pandemic, but disco-diva fever has been all the rave in 2020. As Kylie Minogue releases her aptly titled “Disco” album on Friday, a look at how she, along ...

Donna Summer was typecast as the disco-era “bad girl,” the diva who was too salty and sexual for some radio stations to play in the ’70s. But she was also a musical revolutionary, a versatile singer ...

Donna Summer, whose vibrant anthems like “Last Dance” and “Bad Girls” became the soundtrack of the disco era, died yesterday after a long battle with cancer. Summer, 63, was working until recently on ...