DONNA SUMMER Dies At 63 years old

LaDonna Adrian Gaines, aka, Donna Summer, the Queen of Disco, has died at the age of 63 in Florida after a battle with cancer, the Associated Press confirmed with the singer's family Thursday morning.

Summer was a five-time Grammy Award winner, the first artist ever to score three back-to-back No. 1 double albums, and was nominated--but not chosen--for induction into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 2010.

Summer was born Ladonna Adrian Gaines on December 31, 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts to parents Andrew a butcher and Mary Gaines a schoolteacher and was one of seven children. She and her family were raised in the Boston suburb of Dorchester.

She is survived by her adult daughters Mimi (by her first husband, actor Helmuth Sommer), Brooklyn and Amanda (by second husband Bruce Sudano).