This person died in 2012 at age 63. She grew up singing in church and decided in her teens to make music her career. In the late 1960s she joined the Munich company of the rock musical “Hair” and relocated to Germany. Her voice sailed over dance floors and leapt from radios from the mid-’70s well into the ’80s. Her music was a template for 1970s disco. Her hits include “Hot Stuff”, “Bad Girls”, and “She Works Hard for the Money”. Today’s dead celebrity is Donna Summer.

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New York Times obituary for Donna Summer

Donna Summer on Fresh Air

A&E Biography on Donna Summer

Donna Summer on the Arsenio Hall Show

Homer Simpson’s ‘I Work Hard For the Money’

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