Penned by songwriter to the stars Toby Gad, a posthumous Donna Summer song is scheduled for release.
The Grammy nominated lyricist and producer responsible for songs by Madonna, John Legend, and Beyoncé, has re-imagined the greatest hits of his career with rising stars on the LP ‘PIANO DIARIES – THE HITS’, the deluxe edition for which was recently released.
While discussing the project, Gad confirmed that he and Donna Summer – whose hits include ‘I Feel Love’, ‘Love To Love You Baby’ and ‘Bad Girls’ – worked on a track together before her premature passing in 2012, at the age of 63, and that he plans on releasing the composition in “a couple of months”.
Speaking exclusively to BANG Showbiz, Toby said:
“Moving forward, I’m releasing new singles of new songs with the same sonic signature. And one song I wrote was with Donna Summer before she passed, which I’m going to release. That’s an unreleased song I’m working on and in a couple of months that will come out, and I’m very proud of it.”
Discussing his work on Disco music legend’s final LP, ‘Crayons’ (2008,) writer added “Donna and I, we spent some beautiful times at her beach house. I worked with her on her last album. I had three songs on her last album. She was such an icon, so I’m really proud of that one coming out soon.”
‘PIANO DIARIES – THE HITS (Deluxe)’ features an exceptionally talented group of underground singers, including Jerub, Elijah Blake, Justin Jesso, Antonique Smith, Shuba, Mae Mae, Alex Kinsey, and Casey Abrams, with Toby’s aim to pass the torch to new talent.
Born in Munich, Germany, Toby is the co-writer behind John Legends’s ‘All of Me’, Beyonce’s ‘If I Were A Boy’, and Fergie’s ‘Big Girls Don’t Cry’, and has accumulated 19,000,000,000 streams behind his name.
‘PIANO DIARIES – THE HITS (Deluxe)’ is available to stream now on all major streaming platforms.
PIANO DIARIES – THE HITS (Deluxe) tracklisting:
1. All of Me feat. Celina Sharma
2. If I Were a Boy feat. Angelina Jordan
3. Big Girls Don’t Cry feat. Victoria Justice
4. Untouched feat. Johnny Orlando
5. Here’s To Us feat. Elijah Blake
6. No Matter What feat. Mae Mae
7. Living For Love feat. Jerub
8. Fire Under My Feet feat. Justin Jesso
9. Skyscraper feat. Camilyo
10. Don’t Hold Your Breath feat. Shuba
11. Who You Are feat. Louisa Johnson
12. Love Song to the Earth feat. Antonique Smith
13. I Do feat. Casey Abrams
14. Feel Good feat. Paravi
15. Year Without Rain feat. Alex Kinsey
16. Little Do You Know feat. Keke Palmer and Aloe Blacc
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