“I want to see the Donna Summer musical,” says Martha Wash who performs in San Francisco for the first time in four years next weekend at Feinstein’s at the Nikko. “She had so many hits, she was the Queen of Disco.”

Wash, the one-time Weather Girl, remains steadfastly sunny even after years-long battles with record labels and producers whose profit-oriented presumptions may well have kept that particular crown from resting on her own head.

As hardcore fans are well aware, Wash’s deep yet somehow cheerful growl is part of contemporary dance music’s bedrock.

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