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Donna Summer "State of Independence" (4:25)

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Uploaded on Aug 7, 2009

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Donna Summer "State of Independence" (4:25)
Donna Summer covered Jon Anderson & Vangelis State of Independence on her 1982 album Donna Summer produced by Quincy Jones. Summers version of the song features an all-star choir including among others Michael Jackson, Brenda Russell, James Ingram, Dionne Warwick, Kenny Loggins, Lionel Richie and Stevie Wonder. It reached Number 14 in Britain and 41 in the US. Quincy Jones, who produced it, later claimed that it was the inspiration for the USA for Africa collaboration two years later.

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  • El7Cantante7

    Beautiful Donna Summer. Now you're singing to God.

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  • tc030564

    R.I.P.Donna gone to soon, and what a great song this is.

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  • Keri D. Singleton

    City: NYC. My cousin was singing a song of emancipation. ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAMER!!!!!

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  • El7Cantante7

    mmm, not so. There was a time when she was not only singing to the world but to sin directly... I most say that I enjoyed those songs as well... that is, till I understood what they meant.

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  • michael cropper

    she's been singing 2 Him 4rom the start. 

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  • MyLalinea

    the city? new york? boston?

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  • Euan Evans

    Amen !

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  • Rob Laverty

    miss Donna so much she was wonderfull and always will be one of the greatest of all time one in a million nothing can beat her

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  • modspell

    She had the who's who of producers at the time... Quincy, Michael OMartian, Giorgio Moroder...

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  • Rafaela Ribeiro

    Me lembra de uma infancia gostosa.Nostalgia saudavel.

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