Donna Summer's friends gather for disco queen's funeral A private funeral service will be held in Tennessee Wednesday for Donna Summer, who died at age 63. Summer's funeral plans are secret, cameras are banned from the service Donna Summer died from lung cancer at age 63 She first rose to fame in the mid-'70s with "Love to Love You Baby" Although iconic for disco, her five Grammy wins included R&B, rock, inspirational and dance categories (CNN) -- Several hundred of Donna Summer's closest friends and family will crowd into a Nashville, Tennessee, church Wednesday afternoon to say goodbye to the queen of disco, who died of lung cancer last week. The family has kept the funeral plans secret, including the location, and cameras have been banned from the service. 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. Few singers have impacted music & the world like Donna Summer! It's the end of an era," singer Gloria Estefan wrote on Twitter. "I can'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 didn't show and the pastor asked Donna to step in. Summer later recalled that the church performance left worshipers in tears. While 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 didn'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. 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.