Donna Summer, who moaned, shimmied and grooved her way into the glare of disco’s strobe lights in the mid-1970s and became one of the genre’s most defining and enduring artists, died May 17.

Summer first rose to fame the mid-’70s, thanks to “Love to Love You Baby.” With Summer’s whispered vocals and orgasmic groans, the song helped define the mid-‘70s disco trend and hit No ...

Disco legend Donna Summer died at the age of 63, ... The song, with Summer’s whispered vocals and orgasmic groans helped define the mid-‘70s disco trend and hit No. 2 in 1976.

In the mid-to-late 1970s, disco music and dancing were all the rage. Movies like “Saturday Night Fever,” popular nightclubs like New York’s Studio 54 and white-jacketed deejays in glass ...