Donna Summer - She Works Hard For The Money (1987) • TopPop

This is a YouTube première! LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012), known professionally as Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s and became known as the “Queen of Disco“, while her music gained a global following. 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. In 1968 she joined a German adaptation of the musical Hair in Munich, where she spent several years living, acting, and singing. There, she met music producers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, and they went on to record influential disco hits together such as “Love to Love You Baby“ and “I Feel Love“, marking Summer’s breakthrough into international music markets. Summer returned to the United States in 1976,[5] and more hits such as “Last Dance“, her version of “MacArthur Park“, “