![]() Her hit songs included "Love to Love You Baby" (whose erotic nature stirred up considerable controversy), "I Feel Love," "Bad Girls," "She Works Hard for the Money," "The Wanderer," "This Time I Know It's For Real," "Carry On" and "Last Dance." With a painting, you can look at it day after day and know it's yours." And even a record doesn't have the same solidity. Unless you do a record, there's nothing to grab on to. "In my profession, things are very intangible,' Summer said in 1990 UT San Diego interview. In early 1990, she came here for an opening of her paintings and drawings at the Circle Gallery. Summer was also a devoted visual artist, although that facet of her was always eclipsed by her music. ![]() Noted for her sultry singing voice and charismatic stage presence, Summer both defined and transcended disco. Her career saw the Boston-born singer (real name LaDonna Andre Gaines) perform at numerous venues here, including the San Diego County Fair's Grandstand Stage in June, 2010, Viejas Concerts in the Park in 2008, and at Humphrey's Concerts by the Bay in 1995, 19. go-go music pioneer Chuck Brown, whose rise to fame took place about the same time as Summer's. ![]() She was 63 and her death comes just a day after the passing of Washington, D.C. The iconic disco-music queen, who rose to international fame in the 1970s, died Thursday of cancer, according to her family. ![]() The "Last Dance" has come for Donna Summer. ![]()
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