Did You Know?

• Donna Summer made her first appearance on stage debut at the age of 10, replacing another vocalist and reportedly wowing the religious gathering at her church.

• Just on the verge of graduation from High School, she auditioned for "Hair" in Germany. When she realized they'd cast her, she left the high school and headed for Munich.

• Even after "Hair" ended, she indulged in a romance with actor Helmuth Sommer, so she stayed in Munich. Their romance culminated in a marriage contract. And the singer began to be known by the name Donna Sommer.

• During their backup vocal performance in the studio with Three Dog Night, the singer came across the producer Giorgio Moroder. Pete Bellote and all the three got into a partnership with a streak that would make hit after hit.

• In 1974, she succeeded in releasing the full-length studio debut titled "Lady of the Night," featuring songs composed by Moroder and Bellote. The album is well remembered by the single "The Hostage," which became a hit in Europe but didn't make it to the US. The single was an exclusive achievement for Donna Sommer, but there was a printing mistake exchanging the "o" with a "u," and the result was Donna Summer. The name stuck.

• "Love to Love You Baby" originally was a 3-minute single that fundamentally got ignored. A new 17-minute version of the song was released and proved to be a massive disco hit.

• Summer quickly followed up "Love to Love You Baby" with many other No. 1 dance hits, including "Try Me, I Know We Can Make It," "Winter Melody," Love's Unkind," and "I Feel Love," solidly putting herself at the position of the deserving title as "The Queen of Disco."

• She reached the pinnacle of her popularity at the end of the '70s, charting an excellent four No. 1 singles - "MacArthur Park," "Hot Stuff," "Bad Girls," and the Barbara Streisand duet "No More Tears (Enough is Enough)" - in a single 12-month peri.