Donna Summer (1948–2012), dubbed the “Queen of Disco,” became a global pop icon across the late 1970s and 1980s. After early work in Munich with Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, she amassed multiple U.S. and U.K. hits and three consecutive U.S. No.1 double albums; her innovations with electronically driven disco—especially “I Feel Love”—proved foundational for later dance music.