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State of IndependenceDonna Summer

Songwriter: Jon Anderson Vangelis

Producer: Quincy Jones

State of life
May I live
May I love
Coming out the sky
I name me a name

Coming out silver
Word for what it is
It is very nature of the sound
The game

Shablamidi
Shablamida
Shablamidi
Shablamida
Shablamid
Shablamida

Siamese
Indonese
To Tibet
Treat the life
As a game
If you please, hey

Coming up Caribee
Such a freedom
Derives from a meditative state

Moving on
Believe that's it
Call it magic
Third world
It is
I only guessed it

Shablamidi
Shablamida
Shablamidi
Shablamida
Shablamidi
Shablamida

Shablimidi
Shablamida
Shablimidi
Shablamida
Shablimidi
Shablamida

Shot to the soul
The flame of Oroladian
The essence of the word
The state of independence

Sounds like a signal from you
Bring me to meet your sound
And I will bring you to my heart

Love, like a signal you call
Touching my body
My soul
Bring to me
You to meet me here

Home
Be the temple of your heart
Home
Be the body of your love
Just like holy water to my lips
Hey, hey

Yes
I do know how I survive
Yes
I do know why I'm alive
To love and be with you
Day by day, by day, by day

Time, time again
It is said
We will hear
We will see
See it all in His wisdom hear

His truth will abound the land
This truth will abound the land

This state of independence shall be
This state of independence shall be

Say
Yeah-e-yay
Yeah-e-yo
Yeah-e-yay
Yeah-e-yo

Be the sound of higher love today
Yeah-e-yeah
(Hey, hey)

Time, time again
It is said
We will hear
We will see
See it all in His wisdom hear

His truth will abound the land
This truth will abound the land

This state of independence shall be
This state of independence shall be

This state of independence shall be
This state of independence shall be
This state of independence shall be

Donna Summer

As the unquestioned queen of disco, the one and only Donna Summer lit up the late 70s and 80s with flashy, exuberant vocals and automatic earworms. Born LaDonna Adrian Gaines on Dec. 31, 1948, Summer moved to Germany after being cast in a Munich production of Hair. There, she happened to meet Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, and the trio conglomerated to form a dynamic music team. With Moroder, Summer forged together her first album, The Hostage, which reached moderate success in Northern Europe. Summer’s big break, however, would come later with the release of 1975’s sexual “Love to Love You Baby”, which became one of disco’s first mainstream hits and reached #2 on the Billboard Charts.

1977 came around with the concept album I Remember Yesterday, which featured the Top 10 single “I Feel Love”. The next year, Summer hit the silver screen with the movie Thank God It’s Friday, whose soundtrack featured one of her own the iconic “Last Dance.” This would later become one of the disco legends' signature songs. “Dance” would take home an Academy Award for Best Original Song, a Grammy, and a Golden Globe, and it jumped to a peak of #3 on the charts.

Yet Summer’s illustrious career was far from finished – Summer’s first live album Live and More featured the single “MacArthur Park”, a melting ballad that was a cover of the Jimmy Webb ballad of the same name. “Park” became Summer’s first – and perhaps most memorable – No. 1 hit, and cemented her status as a vocalist as well as a performer. With the track, she became the first female in modern rock history to hold the top spot in both the Hot 100 and the Billboard 200. 1979, though, would really be the peak of her career.

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