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redirect|Nancy Wilson (singer)|the singer and guitarist from the band Heart|Nancy Wilson (rock musician)Infobox musical artist|name = Nancy Wilson|image = NancyWilson.JPG|caption =Photo from the National Endowment of the Arts |image_size = 150|background = solo_singer|birth_date = birth date and age|1937|2|20|death_date =|origin = Chillicothe, Ohio , United States|U.S. |genre = Blues Jazz Cabaret pop music|Pop Soul music|Soul |occupation = Vocalist |associated_acts = Ramsey Lewis George Shearing Cannonball Adderley James Ingram Hank Jones Billy Taylor |label = MCG Jazz, Capitol Records|Capitol , Blue Note Records|Blue Note |website = http://www.missnancywilson.com/ Miss Nancy Wilson|years_active = 1956–present Nancy Wilson (born February 20, 1937) is an United States|American singer with more than 70 albums, and three Grammy Awards . She has been labeled a singer of blues , jazz , cabaret and pop music|pop ; a "consummate actress"; and "the complete entertainer." The title she prefers, however, is song stylist.Wilson, Nancy. (2007-06-19) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php? storyId=2101390 Nancy Wilson, NPR Biography. Npr.org. Retrieved on 2012-01-29. She has received many nicknames including "Sweet Nancy", "The Baby", "Fancy Miss Nancy" and "The Girl With the Honey-Coated Voice".Ebony (Magazine/Journal), March 1, 2007. Nancy Wilson (Center Stage) (Biography)
Background
On February 20, 1937, Nancy Wilson was the first of six children born to Olden Wilson (iron foundry worker) and Lillian Ryan (domestic worker) in Chillicothe, Ohio . http://www.nndb.com/people/092/000030002/ Nancy Wilson. Nndb.com. Retrieved on 2012-01-29. http://www.musicianguide.com/biographies/1608002610/Nancy-Wilson.html Nancy Wilson Biography Retrieved 23 June 2009 Nancy's father would buy records to listen to at home. At an early age Nancy heard recordings from Billy Eckstine , Nat Cole , and Jimmy Scott with Lionel Hampton 's Big Band. Nancy says: "The juke joint down on the block had a great jukebox and there I heard Dinah Washington , Ruth Brown , LaVerne Baker , Little Esther ". http://web.archive.org/web/20071212120848/ http://www.nea.gov/national/jazz/jazz04/wilson2.html Nancy Wilson: 2004 NEA Jazz Master. nea.gov Wilson became aware of her talent while singing in church choirs, imitating singers as a young child,and performing in her grandmother's house during summer visits. By the age of four, she knew she would eventually become a singer.
At the age of 15, while a student at West High School (Columbus, Ohio) , she won a talent contest sponsored by local television station WTVN . The prize was an appearance on a twice-a-week television show, Skyline Melodies , which she ended up hosting. http://www.ohioana.org/features/profiles/nancywilson.pdf Nancy Wilson. (PDF) . ohioana.org. Retrieved on 2012-01-29. She also worked clubs on the east side and north side of Columbus, Ohio , from the age of 15 until she graduated from West High School, at age 17.
Unsure of her future as an entertainer, she entered college to pursue teaching. She spent one year at Ohio's Central State University|Central State College (now Central State University) before dropping out and following her original ambitions. She auditioned and won a spot with Rusty Bryant 's Carolyn Club Big Band in 1956. She toured with them throughout Canada and the Midwest in 1956 to 1958. http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/J488600 Wilson, Nancy (Sue). Oxford University Press While in this group, Nancy made her first recording under Dots Records.
Career
When Nancy met Julian "Cannonball" Adderley , he suggested that she should move to New York City, believing that the big city would be the venue in which her career could bloom. In 1959, she relocated to New York with a goal of obtaining Cannonball’s manager John Levy as her manager and Capitol Records as her label. http://missnancywilson.com/index.php? option=com_content& task=view& id=12& Itemid=26 Miss Nancy Wilson Biography. Missnancywilson.com (2004-08-25). Retrieved on 2012-01-29. Within four weeks of her arrival in New York she got her first big break, a call to fill in for Irene Reid at "The Blue Morocco". The club booked Wilson on a permanent basis; she was singing four nights a week and working as a secretary for the New York Institute of Technology during the day. John Levy sent demos " Guess Who I Saw Today ", "Sometimes I’m Happy", and two other songs to Capitol. Capitol Records signed her in 1960.
Nancy’s debut single, "Guess Who I Saw Today", was so successful that between April 1960 and July 1962 Capitol Records released five Nancy Wilson albums. Her first album, Like in Love, displayed her talent in Rhythm and Blues , with the hit R& B song "Save your Love for Me." Adderley suggested that she should steer away from her original pop style and gear her music toward jazz and ballads. In 1962, they collaborated and produced an album Nancy Wilson/Cannonball which propelled her to national prominence. Between March, 1964 and June, 1965 four of Wilson's albums hit the Top 10 on Billboard's Top LPs chart. In 1963 "Tell Me The Truth" became her first truly major hit, leading up to her performance at the Cocoanut Grove (Los Angeles)|Coconut Grove in 1964 – the turning point of her career garnering critical acclaim from coast to coast. http://missnancywilson.com/index.php? option=com_content& task=view& id=12& Itemid=26 Nancy's own bio. Missnancywilson.com (2004-08-25). Retrieved on 2012-01-29. It was covered in Time magazine , She is, all at once, both cool and sweet, both singer and storyteller . http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,875977,00.html Time Magazine, Wilson, Female Vocal , Friday, July 17, 1964 In 1964 Nancy released what became her most successful hit on the Billboard Hot 100 with " (You Don't Know) How Glad I Am " which peaked at #11. From 1963 to 1971 Wilson logged eleven songs on the Hot 100, including two Christmas singles. However, "Face It Girl, It's Over" was the only remaining non-Christmas song to crack the Top 40 for Wilson (#29, in 1968).
After doing numerous television guest appearances, Wilson eventually got her own series on NBC, The Nancy Wilson Show (1967–1968), that won an Emmy in 1975. Over the years she has appeared on many popular television shows from I Spy (1965 TV series)|I Spy (more or less playing herself as a Las Vegas singer in the 1966 episode "Lori"); Room 222 , Hawaii Five-O , Police Story (TV series)|Police Story , The Jack Paar Program , The Sammy Davis, Jr. Show (1966), The Danny Kaye Show , The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour , Kraft Music Hall (TV series)|Kraft Music Hall , The Sinbad Show , The Cosby Show , The Andy Williams Show , The Carol Burnett Show , Soul Food (TV series)|Soul Food , New York Undercover , and recently Moesha , and The Parkers . http://missnancywilson.com/index.php? option=com_content& task=view& id=12& Itemid=26 Nancy's website. Missnancywilson.com (2004-08-25). Retrieved on 2012-01-29. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0933897/ Nancy Wilson (II). IMDb Database She also appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Merv Griffith Show, The Tonight Show, The Arsenio Hall Show and The Flip Wilson Show. She was in the 1993 Robert Townsend (actor)|Robert Townsend 's The Meteor Man (film)|The Meteor Man and in the film, The Big Score. She also appeared on The Lou Rawls Parade of Stars and the March of Dime Telethon . She was signed by Capitol records in the late 70s and in an attempt to broaden her appeal she cut the album Life, Love and Harmony an album of soulful, funky dance cuts that included the track "Sunshine" which was to become one of her most sought after recordings be it amongst supporters of the rare soul scene for whom she would not usually register.
In the 1980s, she recorded five albums for Japanese labels because she preferred recording live, and American labels frequently didn’t give her that option. She gained such wide popularity that she was selected as the winner of the annual Tokyo Song Festivals.
In 1982 she recorded with Hank Jones and the Great Jazz Trio. In that same year she recorded with Griffith Park Band whose members included Chick Corea and Joe Henderson. In 1987 she participated in a PBS show entitled Newport Jazz ‘87 as the singer of a jazz trio with John Williams and Roy McCurdy.
In 1982 she also signed with CBS, her albums here including The Two Of Us (1984), duets with Ramsey Lewis produced by Stanley Clarke; Forbidden Lover (1987), including the title track duet with Carl Anderson; and A Lady With A Song , which became her 52nd album release in 1989. In 1989 Nancy Wilson in Concert played as a television special.
In the early 1990s, Nancy recorded an album paying tribute to Johnny Mercer with co-producer Barry Manilow entitled With My Lover Beside Me . In this decade she also recorded two other albums, Love, Nancy and her sixtieth album If I had it My Way. . In the late 1990s, Nancy teamed up with MCG Jazz, a youth education programs of the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild , http://www.manchesterguild.org/indexflash.htm Manchester Craftsmen’s Guilddead link|date=January 2012 nonprofit, minority-directed, arts and learning organization located in Pittsburgh, PA .
In 1995, Nancy Wilson performed at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and the San Francisco Jazz Festival in 1997. In 1999, Wilson hosted a show in honor of Ella Fitzgerald entitled Forever Ella on the A & E network.
All the proceeds from 2001's A Nancy Wilson Christmas , went to support the work of MCG Jazz . http://web.archive.org/web/20071222050721/ http://www.jazzreview.com/cdreview.cfm? ID=770 CD Title: A Nancy Wilson Christmas. jazzreview.com Wilson was the host on NPR 's Jazz Profiles , http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php? storyId=10208861 Jazz Profiles. Npr.org. Retrieved on 2012-01-29. from 1996 to 2005. This series profiled the legends and legacy of jazz through music, interviews and commentary. Wilson and the program were the recipients of the George Foster Peabody Award in 2001. http://www.peabody.uga.edu 2001 Peabody goes to Jazz Profiles. Peabody.uga.edu. Retrieved on 2012-01-29.
Wilson's second and third album with MCG Jazz, R.S.V.P. (Rare Songs, Very Personal) (2005), and Turned to Blue (2007), both won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album .
Awards and honors
In 1964, Nancy won her first Grammy Award for the best rhythm and blues recording for the album How Glad I Am . She was featured as a "grand diva" of jazz in a 1992 edition of Essence. http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2871200077.html Wilson,Nancy-1937 Retrieved 24 June 2009 In the same year, she also received the Whitney Young,Jr. Award from the Urban League. In 1998, she was a recipient of the Playboy Reader Poll Award for best jazz vocalist.
In 1986, she was dubbed the Global Entertainer of the Year by the World Conference of Mayors. In 1993, she received an award from the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in 1993; the NAACP Image Award – Hall of Fame Award in 1998, and was inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1999. She received the Trumpet Award for Outstanding Achievement in 1994. http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2871200077.html Wilson, Nancy-1937 Retrieved 24 2009 Nancy has received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1991, at 6541 Hollywood Blvd. List of stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame She received honorary degrees from the Berklee School of Music and Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio . She is also a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. Wilson has a street named after her in her hometown of Chillicothe, Ohio . She co-founded the Nancy Wilson Foundation, which exposes inner city children to the country.
Wilson was the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships award in 2004, the highest honors that the United States government bestows upon jazz musicians. http://web.archive.org/web/20080212031123/ http://www.nea.gov/national/jazz/jazz04/index.html The National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Fellowships. 2004 Fellowships Recipients. nea.gov The 2004 NAACP Image Awards for Best Recording Jazz Artist. In 2005, the UNCF Trumpet Award celebrating African-American achievement, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the NAACP in Chicago, and Oprah Winfrey ’s Legends Award.
In September 2005, Nancy was inducted on the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame at the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site . Wilson was a major figure in African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968)|civil rights marches of the 1960s. Nancy Wilson said, "This award means more to me than anything else I have ever received." http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/9/prweb280109.htm Footsteps of Civil Rights Leaders Placed in International Civil Rights Walk of Fame at Martin Luther King, Jr. Historic Site. Prweb.com. Retrieved on 2012-01-29.
Times.com, August 20, 2006: "It's been a long career for the polished Wilson, whose first albums appeared in the 1960s, and she faces that truth head-on in such numbers as These Golden Years and ''I Don't Remember Ever Growing Up''. Shorter breathed these days, she can still summon a warm, rich sound and vividly tell a song's story. With a big band behind her in Taking a Chance on Love , she also shows there's plenty of fire in her autumnal mood".Porterfield, Christopher. (2006-08-20) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1229100,00.html 6 Jazz Singers Worth A Listen. Time.com. Retrieved on 2012-01-29.
At the Hollywood Bowl , August 29, 2007, Nancy Wilson celebrated her 70th birthday with an all-star event hosted by Arsenio Hall . Ramsey Lewis and his trio performed "To Know Her Is To Love Her".
Personal life
Wilson married her first husband, drummer Kenny Dennis, in 1960. In 1963, their son, Kenneth (Kacy) Dennis, Jr., was born, and by 1970, they divorced. That same year, she married Presbyterian minister, Reverend Wiley Burton. She gave birth to Samantha Burton in 1975 and Sheryl Burton in 1976. As a result of her marriage, she abstained from performing in various venues, such as supper clubs. In this decade, she focused on her family, relocating to Pioneertown, California to raise her children in a rural setting.
For the following two decades, she successfully juggled her personal life and her career. In November 1998, both of her parents died: she calls this year the most difficult of her life. In August 2006, Wilson was hospitalized with anemia and potassium deficiency, and was on I.V. sustenance while undergoing a complete battery of tests. She was unable to attend the UNCF Evening of Stars Tribute to Aretha Franklin and had to cancel an engagement. All of her other engagements were on hold, pending doctors’ reports for that month. In March 2008, she was hospitalized for lung complications, recovered and claimed to be doing well. http://oldschoolmusiclover.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/jazz-singer-nancy-wilson-treated-for-a-collapsed-lung/Jazz singer Nancy Wilson treated for a collapsed lung Retrieved 23 June 2009 http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-178794260.html Nancy Wilson 'doing fine' recovering from lung collapse Retrieved 23 June 2009 In the same year, her husband, Wiley Burton, died after suffering from renal cancer. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_7_114/ai_n28070779/? tag=content;col1 Nancy Wilson's husband dies Retrieved 23 June 2009
Grammy history
Career Wins: 3
Career Nominations: 20 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07060/765682-388.stm Thursday, March 1, 2007, Music Preview: Another side of Nancy Wilson (Retrieved August 19, 2007)
Nancy Wilson Grammy History
Year
Category
Genre
Title
Label
Result
2007
Best Jazz Vocal Album
Jazz
Turned to Blue
MCG Jazz
Winner
2005
Best Jazz Vocal Album
Jazz
R.S.V.P. (Rare Songs, Very Personal)
MCG Jazz
Winner
1964
Female Vocal Performance
R& B
"How Glad I Am"
Capitol
Winner
Discography
Hit singles
Year
Single
Chart positions
US
US R& B
US AC
1962
"Save Your Love For Me"
–
11
–
1963
"Tell Me the Truth"
73
22
–
1964
" (You Don't Know) How Glad I Am "
11
45
2
"I Wanna Be With You"
57
–
9
"And Satisfy"
106
–
–
1965
"Don't Come Running Back To Me"
58
–
–
"Welcome, Welcome"
125
–
–
"Where Does That Leave Me"
–
–
30
"I'll Only Miss Him When I Think Of Him"
–
–
33
1966
" Uptight (Everything's Alright) "
84
–
10
" You've Got Your Troubles "
–
48
20
1968
"Face It Girl, It's Over"
29
15
28
"Peace of Mind"
55
24
34
"In a Long White Room"
117
–
31
1969
"You'd Better Go"
111
44
–
"Got It Together"
114
–
–
" Can't Take My Eyes Off You "
52
27
28
1970
" This Girl Is a Woman Now "
–
–
32
1971
"Now I'm a Woman"
93
41
–
1974
"Streetrunner"
–
46
–
"You're As Right As Rain"
–
10
–
1975
" She Called Me Baby
–
74
–
"Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight"
–
54
–
1976
"Now"
–
91
–
"In My Loneliness (When We Were One)"
–
96
–
1977
" I've Never Been To Me "
–
47
–
1978
"I'm Gonna Get Ya"
–
94
–
1979
"Life, Love and Harmony"
–
83
–
1990
"Don't Ask My Neighbors"
–
83
–
1991
"Do You Still Dream About Me"
–
64
–
1994
" Love Won't Let Me Wait "
–
65
–
" I Can't Make You Love Me "
–
87
–
Albums
Year
Title
Genre
Label
Notes
2006
Turned to Blue
Jazz
MCG Jazz
Won Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album
2005
Live From Las Vegas
Jazz
Capitol
Live, recorded 1968
2004
R.S.V.P. (Rare Songs, Very Personal)
Jazz
MCG Jazz
Won Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album
2003
Simple Pleasures
Jazz
MCG Jazz
with Ramsey Lewis
2002
Meant to Be
Jazz
MCG Jazz
with Ramsey Lewis
2001
A Nancy Wilson Christmas
Jazz
MCG Jazz
1997
If I Had My Way
Jazz
Columbia
1994
Love, Nancy
Jazz
Columbia
1991
With My Lover Beside Me
Jazz
Columbia
1990
Lady with a Song
Jazz
Epic/ Sony
1988
Nancy Now
Jazz
Epic/ Sony
1987
Forbidden Lover
Jazz
Epic / Sony Records
1985
Keep You Satisfied
Jazz
Columbia
1984
The Two of Us
Jazz
Columbia
with Ramsey Lewis
1984
Godsend
Jazz
Interface
1983
'' I'll Be a Song
Jazz
Interface Records
1983
Your Eyes
Jazz
Columbia
1982
What's New
Jazz
EMI Japan
1980
Take My Love
Jazz
Capitol
1980
At My Best
Jazz
ASI Records
1979
Life, Love and Harmony
Jazz/ Soul
Capitol
1979
Nancy Naturally
Jazz
Capitol
1978
Music On My Mind
Jazz
Capitol
1977
I've Never Been to Me
Jazz
Capitol
1976
'' This Mother's Daughter
Jazz
Capitol
1975
Come Get to This
Jazz
Capitol
1974
All In Love Is Fair
Jazz
Capitol
1973
I Know I Love Him
Jazz
Capitol
1972
Free Again
Jazz
Pickwick
1971
Kaleidoscope
Jazz
Capitol
1971
How Glad I Am
Jazz
Capitol
1971
Right to Love
Jazz
Capitol
1971
Who Can I Turn To
Jazz
Blue Note
1971
For Once In My Life
Jazz
Capitol
1971
Double Play
Jazz
Capitol
1970
'' Now I'm a Woman
Jazz
Capitol
1970
Can't Take My Eyes Off You
Jazz
Capitol
1969
Hurt So Bad
Jazz
Capitol
1969
Close Up
Jazz
Capitol
1969
Son of a Preacher Man
Jazz
Capitol
1969
Nancy
Jazz
Capitol
1969
But Beautiful http:/ / www.allmusic.com/ album/ but-beautiful-r26707 Allmusic '& #39;But Beautiful'& #39; Nancy Wilson. Allmusic.com. Retrieved on 2012-01-29.
2001: Nancy Wilson at Carnegie Hall http://www.view.com/nancy_wilson_at_carnegie_hall_dvd.aspx VIEW DVD Listing. View.com. Retrieved on 2012-01-29.
2005: Great Women Singers of the 20th Century – Nancy Wilson http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0930583/ Great Women Singers of the 20th Century: Nancy Wilson (Video 2005). IMDb database
Allmusic|class=artist|id=p3160/charts-awards|pure_url=yes Billboard Chart History for Nancy Wilson
IMDB name|id=0933897|name=Nancy Wilson
http://www.wlatalent.com/roster/nancy_wilson/artistprofile.htm Nancy Wilson at http://www.wlatalent.com/ Wenig-Lamonica Associates
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07060/765682-388.stm Music Preview: Another side of Nancy Wilson (March 1, 2007)
http://www.nea.gov/national/jazz/jazz04/wilson2.html 2004 NEA Jazz Master Interview
Persondata | NAME =Wilson, Nancy | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = American jazz singer | DATE OF BIRTH =1937-02-20 | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Wilson, Nancy Category:1937 births Category:Living people Category:African American musicians Category:American female singers Category:Traditional pop music singers Category:American television actors Category:Rhythm and blues singers Category:Vocal jazz musicians Category:American jazz singers Category:Musicians from Ohio Category:People from Chillicothe, Ohio Category:Torch singers Category:Grammy Award winners Category:Female jazz musicians
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