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Nancy Wilson. 181,948 likes · 2,867 talking about this. Nancy Wilson is celebrated as a seminal musician in rock ‘n’ roll history.
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Nancy Lamoureux Wilson (born March 16, 1954) is an American musician. She rose to fame alongside her older sister Ann as guitarist and second vocalist in the rock band Heart. Raised in Bellevue, Washington, Wilson began playing music as a teenager.
Nancy Wilson is an American rock musician, singer, songwriter, and producer. She is best known as the lead guitarist and vocalist of the rock band Heart, which she co-founded with her sister Ann Wilson in 1973.
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Dec 14, 2018 · Legendary vocalist, actor, and pillar of the jazz community Nancy Wilson died on Dec. 13 at her home in Pioneertown, Calif., after a long battle with illness. She was 81. In her nearly six-decade career, Wilson touched many musical genres.
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Jazz singer Nancy Wilson, a three-time Grammy Award-winner, was born on February 20, 1937 in Chillicothe, Ohio to iron-worker Olden Wilson and the former Lillian Ryan, who worked as a domestic servant. Nancy was the first of six children. Her father's love of music and the records he played at home were a huge influence on Nancy as a young girl. Sh...
She won a TV-talent show when she 15, and began appearing regularly on the Tv show \"Skyline Melodies\" while still in high school. She began working in night clubs at that same age. After graduating from high school, the 17-year old Nancy matriculated for one year at Ohio's Central State College (now Central State University) before dropping out a...
Her records were successful, and Capitol issued five Nancy Wilson albums in two years. Initially focusing on rhythm and blues, under Adderley's influence, she moved away from R&B and embraced jazz and torch songs. Their 1962 collaboration \"Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley\" helped propel her to the top, and she had her breakout hit, \"Tell Me ...
Her 1964 song \"(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am\" reached #11 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart. Eventually, she charted 11 songs in the Hot 100. Nancy also placed four albums in Billboard's Top LP charts between March 1964 and June 1965.
In addition to singing, Nancy Wilson also is an actress. She made numerous appearances on American TV. She also made a one-off appearance on the BBC with The Nancy Wilson Show (1966) in 1966 that was turned into a soundtrack album.
Nancy was married twice, to drummer Kenny Dennis from 1960-70. They had one child. She married the Presbyterian minister Wiley Burton in 1973. Married 35 years until his death in 2008, they had two children.
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- February 20, 1937
Her family moved to Federal Way, WA then later settled in Bellevue, Washington. She has two children with her first husband Cameron Crowe . She is now married to Geoff Bywater.
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