LaDonna Adrian Gaines

 LaDonna Adrian Gaines, known as Donna Summer (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012)

A five-time Grammy Award winner, she was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach No. 1 on the United States Billboard album chart and charted four number-one singles in the United States within a 13-month period. Summer has reportedly sold over 100 million records, making her one of the world's best-selling artists of all time. Summer co-wrote the song "Love to Love You Baby" with Pete Bellotte. The song was released in 1975 to mass commercial success. Over the following years Summer followed this success with a string of other hits, such as "I Feel Love", "Last Dance", "MacArthur Park", "Hot Stuff", "Bad Girls", "Dim All the Lights", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)", and "On the Radio". She became known as the "Queen of Disco" and regularly appeared at the Studio 54 nightclub in New York City, while her music gained a global following. She struggled with depression and addiction, and subsequently she became a born-again Christian in 1980. Donna Summer died from lung cancer at age 63, and is buried at Harpeth Hills Memory Gardens Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame posthumously in 2013.