Bruce Sudano Talks Donna Summer, Touring With the Zombies & Broadway
Since Summer's untimely passing on May 17, 2012, Sudano -- who managed his late wife’s career and co-wrote such Summer hits as "Bad Girls" -- has continued to record new music and tour in the U.S. and Europe.
He made his South by Southwest debut earlier this year and is now back on the road with a solo gig at Live At Drew's in Ringwood, New Jersey, on Friday (May 13) and another on May 19 at New York's Rockwood Music Hall. Sudano's also teaming up with legendary British rockers the Zombies for five dates beginning May 14 at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland, and concluding May 27 at City Winery in Nashville.
In the meantime, daughters Amanda and Brooklyn, as well as granddaughter Vienna, are also carrying on the Summer-Sudano creative tradition. Brooklyn is an actress whose credits include television’s My Wife and Kids and CSI and will appear in NBC’s forthcoming series Taken. Amanda and husband Abner Ramirez comprise the folk, blues and pop duo Johnnyswim. And granddaughter Vienna has been selected as a singer-songwriter for ReverbNation’s artist incubator program Connect.
Deep-rooted music fans will recall that Sudano co-founded the late '60s pop-rock band Alive N Kickin’, which scored a top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Tighter, Tighter.” As a member of the late ‘70s band Brooklyn Dreams -- during which time he met Summer -- Sudano enjoyed a top 5 hit with “Heaven Knows,” a duet featuring Summer and Sudano’s bandmate Joe Esposito. Since then, songs he’s penned became hits for Dolly Parton (“Starting Over Again”) and Michael and Jermaine Jackson (“Tell Me I’m Not Dreamin’”)
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