Donna Summer's life and career will be chronicled in the new documentary, Love To Love You, Donna Summer, which will run on HBO and stream on HBO Max starting in May. Best Classic Bands reported, Love To Love You, "Is directed by Oscar and Emmy-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams and Summer’s daughter, Brooklyn Sudano. Described as an 'unexpected and intimate portrait,' the documentary will have its theatrical world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival."
Donna Summer died on May 17th, 2012 of lung cancer at age 63. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.
Back in 1978, Donna Summer admitted that she wasn't sure if she was viewed as a serious artist beyond her massive chart success: "I really couldn't tell you. I hope I stand in the light of legitimacy, in a place where people will respect what I do, and understand that any songs that I do I choose to -- and not because that is my limitation. And I think before, that was a problem. They thought that was my limitation."
Here is Donna appearing on The Tonight Show in 1978
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