Bruce Sudano on Living On Music

Through his biggest influences, experiences and memories, singer/songwriter Bruce Sudano conveys his stories of love, heartache, struggle and spirituality by way of song. On March 13, 1977 after a steady musical beginning to his career and forming his own band Brooklyn Dreams, Bruce met legendary R&B singer/songwriter Donna Summer, and Bruce’s band and Summer immediately began writing songs and touring together, and within a few months, Sudano and Summer were dating. A year later Donna had a smash with "Bad Girls" which she co-wrote with Bruce & his Brooklyn Dreams mates. Three years after they met, Sudano and Donna Summer married on July 16, 1980, and in 1981, Millennium Records (RCA distribution) released Bruce's first solo album, Fugitive Kind. Also in 1981 Sudano and Summer had two daughters together, the couple's first child Brooklyn, named after the New York City borough Sudano is from, was born in 1981, and their second child Amanda Grace was born in 1982. Diagnosed with lung cancer, Donna Summer Sudano died on May 17th, 2012 at the couple’s home in Naples, Florida at the age of 63. Following his wife’s passing Sudano has created a body of impressive solo work and participated in major tributes to his late legendary wife. Join Living On Music on Facebook at facebook.com/groups/livingonmusic and

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Bruce Sudano on Living On Music is an episode from Living On Music with Steve Houk by Steve Houk.

This episode is 36:05 long.

This episode was published on Feb 19, 2026.

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