United Kingdom, Dec. 9 -- Gloria Gaynor has described Donald Trump as "very personable and very pleasant".

The 82-year-old disco icon was the only female artist to be recognised at the Kennedy Center Honors this year, as she received the award alongside actor Sylvester Stallone, rockers KISS, country music star George Strait, and Broadway and West End legend Michael Crawford.

She told PEOPLE magazine: "It was wonderful. It was, I mean, like the third or fourth time meeting him.

"I'd met him before, and he's always very personable and very pleasant."

The I Will Survive hitmaker admitted the President of the United States didn't actually tell her the specific reason she received the honour.

She added: "Just that he, you know, believed ...