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Donna Summer
She Works Hard for the Money
On Mercury Records 812

Condition: SEALED
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ABOUT:

Donna Summer (née LaDonna Adrian Gaines; December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012) was an American and who gained prominence during the era of the late 1970s. A five-time winner, Summer was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach number one on the United States album chart and charted four number-one singles in the United States within a 13-month period. Summer is estimated to have sold 130 million records worldwide.

Born into a devoutly Christian middle class, family in , Summer first became involved with singing through church choir groups before joining a number of bands influenced by the Sound. Influenced by the , she became the front singer of a band named Crow and moved to New York City. Joining a touring version of the musical , she spent several years living in West Germany, where she married Helmut Sommer, an anglicised version of whose surname she adopted as her stage name.

Returning to the United States, Summer co-wrote the song "" with . Music producer, , convinced her to sing it herself, and it was released in 1975 to mass commercial success, particularly on the disco scene. Over the following years Summer followed this success with a string of other disco hits, such as "", "", "", "" and "". Becoming known as the "Queen of Disco", she regularly appeared at the club in New York City while her music gained a particularly large following within the . Struggling with depression, she subsequently became a in 1980.