Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Bruce Sudano, Singer-Songwriter, Recording Artist, Husband of Donna Summer
About Harvey's guest:
Today’s guest, Bruce Sudano, is a renowned singer-songwriter and recording artist who’s written classic hit songs for many of the music world’s biggest superstars including Michael Jackson, Dolly Parton, Reba McEntyre and of course, his beloved late wife, the magnificent Donna Summer.
In the late 60’s, he co-founded the band “Alive N Kickin”, which had the hit song “Tighter Tighter”. He then co-founded the band “Brooklyn Dreams”, scoring a hit single with the song “Music, Harmony and Rhythm”, and they also appeared in the movie “American Hot Wax”, performing as “The Planotones”.
He recorded 4 albums with “Brooklyn Dreams”, and their final album, “Won’t Let Go”, included the title track for the movie “The Hollywood Knights” starring Tony Danza, Michelle Pfeiffer and Fran Drescher. In the late 70s, his whole world changed when he met and fell in love with Donna Summer, and they got married in 1980. Their collaborations led to a string of hits including “Take it to the Zoo”, “Heaven Knows”, “Bad Girls”, “Lucky” and “On My Honour”, and he co-wrote 4 songs on Donna Summer’s “She Works Hard for the Money” album.
For 2 decades he toured with Donna Summer, playing keyboards and singing background vocals in her band. He’s written or co-written many classic hit songs including “Ball of Fire”, “Starting Over Again”, which was a #1 hit record for Dolly Parton, and later recorded by Reba McEntyre. He also wrote the Grammy-nominated hit, “Tell Me I’m Not Dreamin”, recorded by Michael Jackson and his brother Jermaine. And he wrote "Closest Thing to Perfect", which was the title track for the movie “Perfect”, starring John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis.
As a solo artist, he’s recorded 9 albums, including “Fugitive Kind”, “Rainy Day Soul”, which earned him the New Music Weekly Adult Contemporary Artist of the Year award, “Life and the Romantic”, which produced the hit song, “It’s Her Wedding Day”, which won the New Music Weekly Adult Contemporary Song of the Year award, “The Burbank Sessions”, “21st Century World”, “Spirals, Volumes 1 and 2”, which he wrote during the pandemic, “Ode to a Nightingale”, and of course, the beautiful album entitled “With Angels on a Carousel” released in 2014, honoring the legacy of his beautiful wife Donna Summer.
He was also heavily involved in the highly acclaimed 2018 Broadway musical: “Summer: The Donna Summer Musical.”
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https://open.spotify.com/artist/603Q8uOwTjPYqTTBfwF8pZ
https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/bruce-sudano/478094
https://www.amazon.com/Bruce-Sudano/e/B000APT2EK
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