NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Donna Summer on 6 June 2023. Donna Summer has been played on NTS over 160 times, featured on 114 episodes and was first played on 5 January 2013.

Donna Summer (born 31 December 1948, died 17 May 2012) was one of seven children raised by devout Christian parents. She sang in church, and in her teens joined a funk group called The Crow, so named because Donna was the only black member of the group. At eighteen, Gaines left home and school to audition for a role in the cast of the Broadway musical, Hair (1968)….