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Singer Jessie Ware feels the love for Donna Summer and NYC

Jessie Ware is having a Donna Summer moment. In the spirit of the late, legendary disco diva, the British chanteuse is getting in every last dance on her new LP, “What’s Your Pleasure?” out Friday. “I was never referencing her before and then I felt [inspired by] these really incredibly anthemic, amazing disco tunes,” Ware, …

Jessie Ware is having a Donna Summer moment.

In the spirit of the late, legendary disco diva, the British chanteuse is getting in every last dance on her new LP, “What’s Your Pleasure?” out Friday.

“I was never referencing her before and then I felt [inspired by] these really incredibly anthemic, amazing disco tunes,” Ware, 35, tells The Post. “But also she just had this power and this femininity and flirtation I was so obsessed with. And I kind of wanted to have all that on this record.”

No doubt, you can hear the strobe-lit legacy of Queen Donna in “Pleasure” pumpers such as “Spotlight,” the album-opening single, and the “I Feel Love”-esque title track. But at the heart of Ware’s fourth studio album is the same soul-pop siren whose aural allure has been captivating fans since her adored debut, 2012’s “Devotion.”

‘She just had this power and this femininity and flirtation I was so obsessed with.’

Three albums later, though, Ware is shaking it up, mixing her cool sensuality with a clubby hedonism that actually returns her to her pre-“Devotion” roots. Before launching her solo career, she was a featured vocalist with dance-music savant SBTRKT.

“It was more like a return to somewhere that I’d felt really comfortable and enjoyed, and kind of departed from too quickly, I think,” says Ware. “I felt the need to up the speed. I felt like I was missing it from my live shows. I wanted that energy.”

In addition to the peak-Summer ’70s, “What’s Your Pleasure?” twirls back to the ’80s, with synth-pop bops such as “Soul Control,” as well as the ’90s, with tracks such as the Lisa Stansfield-esque throwback “In Your Eyes.”

“I feel like she’s in every UK person’s blood,” Ware says of Stansfield. “We grow up on her.”

Meanwhile, sexed-up songs such as “Ooh La La” and “Read My Lips” find Ware feeling herself more than ever. “There was a directness that I don’t think I’ve been confident enough to have before this record,” she says. “I’m, like, 10 years into the game, and I think this whole path [has been] very important to my confidence.”

Ware has also taken bold, new steps with her dance moves, learning choreography for the first time in videos such as “Save a Kiss.” “I thought that was only for people like J.Lo. But I’m freaking lovin’ it,” she says. “We are having so much fun making this very much like a nod to [Bob] Fosse. I watched ‘Fosse/Verdon,’ and I was like, ‘That’s it — I wanna f - - king be like Gwen Verdon!’ ”

Growing up in London, Ware was a drum-and-bass head as a teenager. “From about 16, I’d go clubbing to whichever night that we were all kind of saving up for or waiting for,” she says.

Ware also had a love connection in the club with her husband, personal trainer Sam Burrows, when he was DJing on a drum-and-bass night: “My husband and I knew each other from school when we were, like, 10, but when I saw him DJ . . . OMG. I really fancied him.”

Fancy him, she sure did: The teenage sweethearts got married in 2014 on the Greek island Skopelos, where “Mamma Mia!” was filmed, and they now have a 3-year-old daughter and a 1-year-old son.

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Ware postponed the release of “What’s Your Pleasure?” — originally scheduled to drop June 19 — out of respect for Juneteenth. “If I’m being honest, I hadn’t heard of Juneteenth,” she says of the holiday celebrating the final slaves being freed in the US. “And then thankfully, my label informed me, and we couldn’t put the record out that day. It made no sense to do as soon as I understood the importance of it.”

And she’s already had another release earlier this year: “Table Manners: The Cookbook,” which takes its name from her popular “Table Manners” podcast with her mother, Lennie Ware. “My mom’s always been a great cook and a great host, so I was like, ‘Well, we can come over to my mom’s house, and we can eat dinner, and then we’ll talk about food,’ ” she says of the podcast, which launched in 2017 — and has revealed more about the woman who would pair her new album with a dirty vodka martini.

But the singer has never had any trouble getting intimate with her fans on tour. “We’ll just have to wait for that dance together,” says Ware, who had been scheduled to play the big Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, England, this week.

So where does Ware get the most pleasure out of performing? “When I think about where I have the most fun, New York is one of my top places to play,” she says. “They’re frickin’ loud in New York! I made this record, I think, with my New York fans in mind. They say naughty things to me — and I love it.”

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