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Infobox musical artist| name = Nancy Wilson| image = NancyWilsonHeartMay10.jpg| caption = Nancy Wilson May 2010| birth_name = Nancy Lamoureux Wilson| Born = Birth date and age|1954|3|16|mf=y San Francisco, California , U.S. | death_date = | genre = rock music|Rock , hard rock , folk rock , pop rock | occupation = Musician , songwriter , singer, record producer|producer | instrument = Vocals, guitar , 12-string guitar , mandolin , mandola , mandocello , bouzouki , harmonica , piano , keyboards , Hammond organ|organ , synthesizer , mellotron , autoharp , bass guitar|bass , pedal steel guitar , dobro , hammered dulcimer|dulcimer , violin , stroh violin , viola , cello , accordion | associated_acts = Heart (band)|Heart , The Lovemongers | years_active = 1974–present
Nancy Lamoureux Wilson (born March 16, 1954) is an American singer, songwriter , guitarist and record producer|producer who, with her older sister Ann Wilson|Ann and lead guitarist Roger Fisher (guitarist)|Roger Fisher , became the core of the Seattle / Vancouver rock music|rock band Heart (band)|Heart .
Life and career
Wilson was born in San Francisco, California , and she and her sister, Ann, grew up in Southern California and Taiwan before their United States Marine Corps|Marine Corps father retired to the Seattle suburb of Bellevue, Washington|Bellevue .
Nancy finished high school, then attended Pacific University in Oregon and Cornish College of the Arts in SeattleCitation needed|date=March 2009 where she majored in art and German literature.Kelly, Maura http://www.believermag.com/issues/200708/? read=interview_wilson Interview with Nancy Wilson , The Believer, August 2007. Retrieved 2008-10-01.Bergman, Julie http://www.acousticguitar.com/issues/ag81/ag81.shtml Guitar Queen of Heart, cover story, Acoustic Guitar, September 1999, No. 81. She then played solo gigs until 1974 when she quit college and moved to Canada to join her sister in Heart. She and Heart guitarist Roger Fisher (guitarist)|Roger Fisher , brother of Ann's boyfriend/Heart's manager Mike Fisher, lived together for some time.
While Ann is the lead singer on the majority of the Heart recordings, Nancy is the lead vocalist on notable tracks like " Little Queen|Treat Me Well ", " These Dreams ", " Stranded (Heart song)|Stranded ", " There's the Girl ", and " Will You Be There (In the Morning) " and frequently performs background and harmony vocals. Nancy is the band's rhythm and lead guitarist. In 1999 Nancy Wilson released the solo live album, ''Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop .
Nancy Wilson married film director and former Rolling Stone writer Cameron Crowe on July 27, 1986; they have two sons. http://www.nndb.com/people/368/000025293/ Nancy Wilson profile, nndb.com Wilson filed for divorce from Crowe on September 23, 2010, citing "irreconcilable differences." The divorce filing stated that the former couple had separated on June 15, 2008. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20428836,00.html "Rocker Nancy Wilson Divorcing Cameron Crowe", People.com The divorce was finalized on December 8, 2010.ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory? id=12359659 "Cameron Crowe and Nancy Wilson finalize divorce", ABC News
Nancy has played a role in composing music for most of Crowe's films including Jerry Maguire , Almost Famous , Vanilla Sky , and Elizabethtown (film)|Elizabethtown . She had Cameo appearance|cameo roles in Crowe's The Wild Life (film)|The Wild Life (1984) as David's wife and Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) credited as "Beautiful Girl in Car". In 1990, she contributed to the Say Anything... soundtrack with "All for Love".
In 2000, Nancy Wilson was featured in an instructional guitar video for Star Licks Productions . Nancy and Ann Wilson took part in 2010's We Are the World 25 for Haiti , as well as Pandora's "Moms Who Rock," sponsored by Febreze. In 2011, Nancy recorded a version of Heart's early hit, " Dreamboat Annie (song)|Dreamboat Annie ", with classical guitarist Sharon Isbin for Isbin's album Guitar Passions .Sony notice in Classic fm , October 2011
More pictures of Nancy, Ann, Heart and the Lovemongers can be found at :Category:Images of Heart (band)
http://www.believermag.com/issues/200708/? read=interview_wilson Nancy Wilson interview in The Believer magazine
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