( CNN ) -- Several hundred of Donna Summer 's closest friends and family crowded into a Nashville , Tennessee , church Wednesday afternoon to say goodbye to the queen of disco , who died of lung cancer last week . The family had kept the funeral plans private , but by Wednesday afternoon it was revealed that the service was being held at Christ Presbyterian Church in Nashville . Cameras were not allowed inside . David Foster performed `` The Prayer '' with Natalie Grant , according to Universal Music Enterprises , Summer 's record label . Summer 's sisters , Linda Gaines Lotman , Mary Ellen Bernard , Dara Bernard and Jenette Yancey , sang `` We 've Come This Far By Faith . '' Guests included Giorgio Moroder , who produced several of Summer 's hits , and singer Tony Orlando . Summer had been a Nashville resident since 1995 . Summer 's death at age 63 last Thursday began a flow of tributes for the five-time Grammy winner , whose music was a driving beat of the disco era in the last half of the 1970s . `` Her talent was a true gift to the music industry , '' said Neil Portnow , president and CEO of the Recording Academy . `` Few singers have impacted music & the world like Donna Summer ! It 's the end of an era , '' singer Gloria Estefan wrote on Twitter . `` I ca n't believe we 've lost another wonderful singer , '' Dolly Parton said . `` Donna , like Whitney ( Houston ) , had one of the greatest voices ever . I loved her records . She was the disco queen , and will remain so . I knew her and found her to be one of the most likable and fun people ever . She will be missed and remembered . '' Summer , born in Boston to a father who was a butcher and a mother who was a schoolteacher , sang from the moment she learned to talk . Her debut performance came in church at age 10 when the scheduled singer did n't show and the pastor asked Donna to step in . Summer later recalled that the church performance left worshipers in tears . Though she is iconic in the disco genre , her five Grammy wins were also in the R & B , rock , inspirational and dance categories . Donna Summer : A diva who defined the disco moment . In a 2003 interview with CNN , she said the initial absence of a manager led her to do provocative photo shoots . Her public image as a sex symbol and diva conflicted with her religious upbringing , she said . Her grandfather was a minister and her father a church deacon . `` Yes , it was a big complex and the image was sort of created around me , '' Summer said . `` I was sort of there , but not consciously there . And I did n't have anybody sort of on my side at that point , fighting for me , except for me , being in the middle . And then people would say , you know , 'Lay down here and do this . ' And you know , whatever , '' Summer said . Summer first rose to fame the mid-'70s , thanks to `` Love to Love You Baby . '' With Summer 's whispered vocals and orgasmic groans , the song helped define the mid-'70s disco trend and hit No . 2 in 1976 . Summer followed the song with such hits as `` I Feel Love , '' `` Last Dance '' and a disco-fied version of the Richard Harris hit `` MacArthur Park , '' which outdid Harris ' version by hitting No . 1 on Billboard 's Hot 100 singles chart . It was Summer 's first of four chart-toppers . But with her 1979 album , `` Bad Girls , '' Summer broke out of the disco mold as the genre , which had become renewed by the success of the `` Saturday Night Fever '' soundtrack , was feeling a backlash . `` Bad Girls '' demonstrated Summer 's vocal and stylistic range and produced two No . 1 hits , `` Hot Stuff '' and `` Bad Girls , '' as well as a Top 10 ballad , `` Dim All the Lights . '' However , Summer had some trouble adjusting to the changing times . Her next album , `` The Wanderer , '' went for more of a rock feel . It produced a Top 10 hit in the title track but fared relatively poorly on the charts -- especially after the success of `` Bad Girls , '' a double album that spent five weeks at No . 1 . It was n't until 1983 's `` She Works Hard for the Money , '' which became a ubiquitous video as well as a big radio hit , that Summer 's fame approached its late '70s zenith . Dim all the lights , this 'last dance ' goes out to Donna Summer . CNN 's Michael Martinez , Todd Leopold and Denise Quan contributed to this report .
NEW : David Foster and David Foster among performers . David Foster died from lung cancer at the mid-'70s . She rose to fame in the mid-'70s with `` Love to Love You Baby '' Though she was a disco icon , her Donna Summer wins included Christ Presbyterian Church , rock , inspirational and dance categories .