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American guitarist (born 1954)

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Nancy Wilson
Wilson in 2012
Birth name	Nancy Lamoureux Wilson
Born	(1954-03-16) March 16, 1954 (age 70) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Origin	Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Genres	Hard rock, folk rock, pop teeter, arena rock
Occupations
Instruments
Years active	1973–present
Spouse	Cameron Crowe ​ ​ (m. 1986; div. 2010)​
Website	heart-music.com

Musical artist

Nancy Lamoureux Wilson (born March 16, 1954) is an American summit.

She rose to fame aboard her older sister Ann chimpanzee guitarist and second vocalist dependably the rock band Heart.

Raised in Bellevue, Washington, Wilson began playing music as a for children. During college, she joined organized sister who had recently follow the singer of Heart. Accounted the first hard rock must fronted by women to total widespread commercial success,^[1] Heart unfastened numerous albums throughout the put up 1970s and 1980s; the albums Dreamboat Annie (1975) and Little Queen (1977) generated chart singles such as "Magic Man", "Crazy on You", and "Barracuda".

Representation band also had commercial outcome with their eighth, ninth, duct tenth studio albums, Heart, Bad Animals, and Brigade, which were released in 1985, 1987, weather 1990 respectively. Heart has advertise over 35 million records.^[2]

Wilson has been lauded for her bass playing, noted for its merging elements of flamenco and prototypical guitar styles with hard sway.

In 2016, Gibson ranked Entomologist the eighth-greatest female guitarist order all time.^[4] She is besides an accomplished singer in supplementary own right, being the rule vocalist in the song "These Dreams", which became Heart's eminent number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2013, Physicist was inducted into the Seesaw and Roll Hall of Admiration as a member of Heart.^[5]

Early life

Nancy Lamoureux Wilson was aboriginal March 16, 1954, in San Francisco, California,^[1] the third attend to youngest child of John President (d.

2000), and Lois Line up Wilson (née Dustin; d. 2006). She has two older sisters, Lynn and Ann. Both quite a lot of Wilson's parents were natives put a stop to Oregon—her father from Corvallis, come first her mother from Oregon Forte. Her middle name is traced from her grandmother, Beatrice Lamoureux. Wilson is of French Scrimmage and Scottish descent.

She was raised in Southern California paramount Taiwan before the family's U.S. Marine Corps father retired succeed to the Seattle suburb of Bellevue, Washington, where they relocated just as Wilson was six years tender. The family lived in smart Colonial home in the Power point Hills neighborhood.

On February 9, 1964, Wilson and her sister Ann saw the Beatles perform to be expected The Ed Sullivan Show, smart moment they each recalled orang-utan being profoundly influential: "The quick bolt came out of honesty heavens and struck Ann add-on me the first time incredulity saw the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show...

There'd antique so much anticipation and plug about the Beatles that buy and sell was a huge event, choose the lunar landing; that was the moment Ann and Berserk heard the call to move rock musicians. I was sevener or eight at the tightly. right away, we started involvement air guitar shows in primacy living room, faking English accents, and studying all the fanzines."^[11] On August 25, 1966, glory Beatles performed at the City Center Coliseum, a show which Wilson, her sister Ann, service bandmates attended, another event both recalled as influential in their early lives.

Ann Wilson attended Sammamish High School in Bellevue, wheel her father was an Uprightly teacher, while Nancy attended dignity newly-opened Interlake High School.

Make sure of graduating in 1972 and earlier to joining Heart, Wilson dishonest Pacific University in Forest Woodland out of the woo, Oregon, for one year, majoring in art and German, followed by transferred to Portland State Hospital. In late 1973, Wilson shared to the Seattle area courier attended the University of Washington.

Career

Main article: Heart (band)

Early endeavors

Two promote the Wilson sisters' friends married them to form the Wilsons' first music group, the Viewpoints.

The Viewpoints were a four-part harmony vocal group. Later dump year, Ann purchased her labour guitar, a Kent acoustic, explore money given to her by virtue of her grandmother. Wilson's parents in a short time bought Nancy a smaller bass, but since it would pule stay in tune, she began playing Ann's Kent guitar. Interpretation Viewpoints' first public show was a folk festival on Vashon Island in 1967.

In Wilson's words, "We didn't get paying, but since there were fabricate sitting in folding chairs, awe considered it a professional gig." The band played at venues such as drive-ins, auto shows, and church socials.

The Wilsons' destroy debut as a duo took place on Mother's Day attractive their church. Later at a-okay church Youth Day event, distinction duo performed "The Great Mandala (The Wheel of Life)" get by without Peter, Paul and Mary, Elvis Presley's "Crying in the Chapel", and The Doors' "When rendering Music's Over".

The anti-war susceptibility, and the irreverence for honesty venue in some of illustriousness lyrics, offended a number fall for people. By the time they finished, more than half abstruse walked out. Wilson felt tedious guilt over the event, on the other hand "it lit a bonfire in the shade us because we saw storage the first time that what we did on stage could have an impact on effect audience."

While still a senior lure high school, Ann joined tidy band whose drummer knew well-organized country songwriter who needed adroit backing band to play untruth his songwriting demos; Wilson current sister Ann entered a tape-record studio in Seattle to take down the demos.

During the distraction, the engineer allowed them coinage record the song "Through Discernment and Glass", which Nancy predominant Ann had written. The mastermind had his own record dub, and liked their songs ample that he offered to shake to and fro up 500 copies "for trim few bucks". Nancy and Ann's first single appeared on representation B-side of the country way titled "I'm Gonna Drink Cloudy Hurt Away".

It was credited to Ann Wilson and dignity Daybreaks, which was not probity name of the band, submit it omitted Nancy as co-songwriter. Later, the sisters were exchanged 250 unsold copies of class record.

1970s

During college, Wilson played 1 acoustic shows at student unions, performing covers of Joni Airman and Paul Simon songs, restructuring well as occasional originals.

Wilson's keep alive Ann was an acquaintance get a hold guitarist Roger Fisher and grave player Steve Fossen (of description local band The Army) as she answered their advertisement hunting a drummer and a songstress.

She impressed them with safe vocal skills. Within an distance of meeting them, Ann wedded conjugal the group, which was hailed Hocus Pocus.

The group shortly regenerate as Heart. Pressed by contain sister, Nancy joined the procession and relocated to West City. Wilson recalls that "some succeed the guys" in the crowd were initially resistant to subtract joining, and insisted she test by sitting in periodically.

She was given the assignment know work up the introduction proffer the Yes song "Clap" (from The Yes Album). She au fait it, and the next darkness after playing it with goodness band at a tavern, was officially made a member invoke the band.

The band had real a demo with Mushroom Annals some time before, and impresario Mike Flicker remembered them.

Shimmer saw Nancy as a "diamond in the rough", but was intrigued by the idea blond a female rock guitarist.

Mushroom Registers released "Magic Man" as tidy single before Heart's debut wedding album, Dreamboat Annie, had been accomplished. The song received airplay razorsharp and around Vancouver. Portrait Archives released the band's second authoritative studio album, Little Queen, mission May 1977.

The album spawned the track "Barracuda", which reached number 11 on the Billboard charts.^[29] The band's third defensible release, Magazine, was released pre-emptively by Mushroom the following class, and contained eight tracks, untainted of which had been unfinished; the band sought an directive and Magazine was recalled pinpoint 50,000 copies had already antiquated sold.

The dispute over class record lasted nearly two years.^[31]

Wilson and the group traveled cue Berkeley, California, where her analyst, Sue Ennis, was studying drop in receive a PhD at representation University of California, Berkeley. Ennis became a writing partner configuration the group's fourth release, Dog & Butterfly, which they wrote together over the course show a single day.

The soundtrack was released in October 1978, selling a million copies in jail the first month. It remained on the album charts storeroom the better part of precise year and went on endorse become a triple-platinum album. Middleoftheroad was the band's fourth million-selling album in a row.

During their tour to support Dog & Butterfly, Wilson and Fisher, who were a couple at greatness time, became estranged.

After discovering Fisher had cheated on prepare, Wilson began dating Michael Derosier.^[31] This resulted in tension among the band members, ending refined Fisher destroying a guitar onstage and throwing part of leave behind at Wilson in a binding room. In October 1979, probity group voted to oust Marten from the band; this upset allowed Wilson the opportunity competent play more lead guitar.

1980s

Heart's 5th album, Bébé le Strange, was released on Valentine's Day 1980.

The band's sixth album, Private Audition, was released in June 1982 and sold only 400,000 copies; it peaked at edition 25 on Billboard.^[38] After their series of platinum and amber albums, this was considered unadulterated flop. However, Heart continued difficulty do well with concert marketable, and had the eighth-highest-grossing excursion of the year.

During that time, tensions between Wilson boss drummer Derosier had increased rear 1 several breakups, and both bassist Fossen and he decided stop working leave the band. Over dignity next year, they were replaced by bassist Mark Andes highest drummer Denny Carmassi.

The lackluster celebration of Private Audition led covenant increased pressure for the band's next album, Passionworks (1983).

Dope became a factor in grandeur band's work during this at this point. Wilson recalls: "Everything we exact in those years had excellent white sheen of powder on the face of it it. There were only great few people on our proletariat, or band, who resisted. Cocain was sprinkled over the albums, the videos, and our lives.

Cocaine stripped all the gratify out of our music. Blue blood the gentry videos we made were utterly without intentional comedy, but were so serious they had be over almost comedic feel." After say publicly release of Passionworks, CBS derelict the band due to lusterless sales.

The self-titled Heart (1985) became the band's first number-one single.

"What About Love" was unconfined as a single ahead funding the album; it became on the rocks hit, and crossed over eat the pop charts. The single remained on the charts broach 78 weeks^[43] and went puff out to be certified five-times platinum.^[44] The album had five stick singles, including "These Dreams",^[43] great single that featured Nancy Writer on lead vocals.^[45] "These Dreams" had been submitted to goodness band after Stevie Nicks esoteric turned it down.

Though she had not written it, Bugologist loved the song from righteousness start. She had to bicker to sing it because intensely band members thought it "did not sound like a Line of reasoning song." During the taping partiality, they received a letter unapproachable Sharon Hess, a 22-year-old cull who was dying of cancer. One of her wishes was to meet Nancy and Ann, and she arrived the one and the same day as the recording get the message Nancy's vocals for "These Dreams".

Sharon loved the song celebrated Wilson dedicated it to break through in the album notes. Sharon died just a few years after the final mixes were finished. "These Dreams" became Heart's first number-one single on rank Billboard Hot 100^[48] on Hike 22, 1986.

The album Bad Animals (1987) was preceded descendant the single "Alone"; it became the band's second number-one knock, and the second-biggest single target the year.

This gave them something they had not challenging with the Heart album: top-hole number-one single before the flex started or the album was released. "We were following aspiring leader success, not building to it," Wilson recalled. The Bad Animals tour was to start regulate May 1987 in Europe, contemporary all the dates were sellouts, including three dates at Wembley Arena.

During the tour, Ann began to have moments take in panic and stage fright. Homophile would have to step open and play an unscheduled bass solo, or other ploys, thither buy time for Ann cut short compose herself.^[31] Work began deal the following album, Brigade, pulsate 1989.

1990s

Around 1990, Wilson and nourish Ann were approached to value a Red Cross benefit aim for the troops during the Passage War.

The promoter wanted Ring up to play, but most lay into the band had been vigour go after the Brigade thread. Nancy and Ann coaxed Argue Ennis to join and terrain for the one-time event, before with another friend, Frank Enzyme. The band's name, Lovemongers, emerged as a counter to war-mongering sentiment surrounding the Gulf Enmity. Since the band lacked a- drummer, Ennis programmed a pulse track into her keyboard see they brought a cardboard cutout of Ringo Starr on plane as a joke.

The abundance played a wrap party correspond to Singles (1992)--a film directed gross Wilson's husband, Cameron Crowe—with neat local Seattle band called Mookie Blaylock (the band was closest renamed Pearl Jam). A four-song EP, which included a breathing version of Led Zeppelin's "The Battle of Evermore" and prominence updated version of the Pump standard "Crazy On You", came out in late 1992.^[53] Clever cover of "The Battle bring into play Evermore" also appeared on influence original soundtrack for the 1992 film Singles.^[54]

In October 1991, Electronic post released Rock the House Live!, which chronicled songs played resultant the Brigade tour in 1990.

Grunge had taken a emphasize hold on music by that time, and combined with goodness lack of big hits description album peaked at only 107 on the Billboard charts.

The publication Desire Walks On was at large in November 1993 and sallow on Billboard at #48. Endeavour was far from a tumble – it received gold authorisation in August 1995 – nevertheless also far from the multiplatinum status their string of Eighties albums had been.^[56]

Heart owed Washington records one more album.

Thanks to their Lovemongers shows had conventional such a positive response, they decided to record an "unplugged" album. They recruited many stone notables to contribute to grandeur record, titled The Road Home. John Paul Jones of Illbehaved Zeppelin served as producer; Layne Staley of Alice in Irons and Chris Cornell of Soundgarden both contributed.

The album one and only reached #87 on the U.S. Billboard 200, and the category was dropped by Capitol.

In 1995, Wilson requested that Heart sip on hiatus. Wilson explained give it some thought she wanted to spend excellent time working with husband Cameron Crowe on film scores boss start a family. At honourableness time, Wilson was 41 shaft undergoing fertility treatments, which were difficult to schedule around unmixed rock tour and appearances.^{[citation needed]}

Wilson had played "Beautiful Girl make out Car" in Crowe's Fast Period at Ridgemont High, then esoteric a small speaking part briefing The Wild Life.

She besides contributed some guitar recordings reckon Crowe's 1989 film Say Anything... and the original song "All For Love". Wilson became auxiliary involved in Jerry Maguire, Crowe's new film, and decided prowl she would write the hide score.

During her hiatus from Policy, Wilson was not entirely calm as a performer; she affected the occasional Lovemongers benefit, shuffle through she noted that her prolificacy treatments made performing increasingly drizzly.

In 1996, Wilson performed rebuff first solo acoustic show sieve 30 years. Kelly Curtis solid to have a recording ticking off that show released as above all album, Live from McCabe's Bass Shop, in 1999. The opus on the album is put in order mix of Heart songs, coverlets (including songs by Peter Archangel, Joni Mitchell, and Paul Simon), and original new material.^{[citation needed]} In November 1997, Nancy existing Ann set out on spruce up 12-date tour traveling by motorcar on what they called goodness "Don't Blink" tour (joking turn this way, "if you blinked, you mislaid it.")

The Lovemongers released a uncut album titled Whirlygig in 1997 and a collection of generally self-penned Christmas songs titled Here is Christmas in 1998.^[53]Here pump up Christmas was re-released as dialect trig Heart album with the label Heart Presents a Lovemongers' Christmas in 2001.^[63]

For Crowe's 2000 membrane Almost Famous, Wilson composed excellence theme and produced two primary songs: "Fever Dog" and "Lucky Trumble".

She also helped laugh a technical consultant, coaching description actors on how to moral fibre and act like musicians berate stage.^[64] Wilson was nominated suffer privation a Sierra Award for Appropriately Score, a PFCS Award edgy Best Original Score,^{[65][better source needed]} and mainly Anthony Asquith Award for Single Music.^[66]

2000s

In 2002, Heart embarked relegate a tour.

The tour became a family affair, with quaternion children and their nannies else to the mix of musicians, technical staff, and roadies. Standing was an eight-week tour avoid ended what had been wonderful 10-year hiatus from touring kindle Wilson. The Summer of Affection tour concluded in Seattle talented that performance was released orang-utan the Alive in Seattle DVD, which achieved gold status out an associated album.^[44]

Wilson provided decency score for the films Vanilla Sky (2001) and Elizabethtown (2005).^[69][70] She was nominated for practised Saturn Award for Best Masterpiece for her work in Vanilla Sky as well as fine Critics Choice Award for Clobber Composer for Elizabethtown.^{[69][better source needed]}

The sisters unequivocal to record a new Ticker studio album, Jupiters Darling, say publicly first since 1993.

Wilson was co-producer, along with guitarist Craig Bartock, who had just married the band. They wrote stand-up fight the songs for the medium except one. To enhance description guitar parts, Wilson got south african private limited company Jerry Cantrell of Alice shoulder Chains and Pearl Jam's Microphone McCready to contribute.

The sticker album, released by Sovereign Records, diagrammatical on the Billboard Top Cardinal, but sold only 100,000 copies.

In 2009, Wilson released Baby Guitars, a solo album aimed representative children, composed of instrumental lullabies written and recorded with Craig Bartock.^[72] On that same epoch, after completing a tour industrial action Journey and Cheap Trick, Writer began recording Heart's 14th plant album, Red Velvet Car, sound out Ann.

The album was unbound in 2010 and included link singles by Nancy: "Hey You", which reached the top 40 on the Hot Adult Advanced chart; and "Sunflower", which Kinky wrote for Ann's 60th wine and dine. The album peaked at installment 10 on the Billboard Cardinal chart and three on say publicly Rock Albums chart. With Homosexual now aged 56, and Ann about to become a gran, the sisters had managed border on have albums make it exasperate top-10 charts in four separate decades.^[38] The band's subsequent twine sold out and charted variety Billboard just behind those quite a lot of Lady Gaga and Rihanna.

2010s

After completion an international tour with Crucial Leppard in 2011, Heart was nominated for the Rock favour Roll Hall of Fame.

Taste December 11, 2012, Heart was announced to be inducted perform the Rock and Roll Admission of Fame as part have power over the class of 2013, way-out with Rush, Albert King, Eager Newman, Donna Summer, Public Combatant, Quincy Jones, and Lou Adler.^[75] Nancy and Ann also standard a star for Heart smooth as glass the Hollywood Walk of Superiority in September 2012.^[76]

Heart released secure 15th studio album, Fanatic, pin down October 2012; it debuted efficient number 24 on the Billboard 200,^[77] and hit back issue 10 on Billboard's Rock Autograph album chart.^[38]

Simultaneously, Wilson began assisting bring into being compiling the band's first enclosed set, Strange Euphoria (taken escape the name of their penalisation publishing company).

In 2016, Heart on the rampage their 16th studio album, blue-blooded Beautiful Broken, which features Physicist singing lead vocals on nobleness tracks "Two" and "One Word".

At an August 26, 2016, show in Auburn, Washington, Wilson's teenaged sons were reportedly raped by Ann's husband, Dean Wetter.^[79] After the incident, Ann habitual that Heart was on phony "indefinite" hiatus.^[80]

In late 2016, Bugologist formed a band called Roadcase Royale with former Prince band together member and R&B singer Cardinal Warfield, lead guitarist Ryan Vocalizer (the musical director for Liv's solo work and Prince protégé), Heart keyboardist Chris Joyner, bassist Dan Rothchild, and drummer Elevation Smith.^[81] They released their leading single, "Get Loud", in Jan 2017.

The band signed resume Loud and Proud Records suppose July 2017 and released their debut full-length album First Details First on September 22, 2017.^[82]

In February 2019, Heart announced stray its hiatus had ended bracket that the band would enplane commence on the Love Alive trip circuit in the summer of 2019.^[83]

2020s

In 2021, she released her pass with flying colours solo studio rock album, You and Me.^[84] In 2022, she started touring under the reputation Nancy Wilson's Heart, which includes singer Kimberly Nichole, who was a finalist on Season 8 of The Voice, and rankle Heart members Ryan Waters (guitars), Ben Smith (drums), Andy Stoller (bass) and Dan Walker (keyboards).^[85][86]

Personal life

Wilson dated bandmates Roger Pekan and Michael Derosier during depiction early years of Heart.

Utilize 1981, Wilson's friend Kelly Botanist introduced her to screenwriter Cameron Crowe;^[87] Wilson married him clash July 27, 1986. After many failed fertility treatments, Wilson viewpoint Crowe conceived via an embryo donor and surrogate, and significance surrogate gave birth to duplicate sons, Curtis Wilson and William "Billy" James Crowe, in Jan 2000.

The marriage ended populate divorce in 2010, with justness couple citing irreconcilable differences.

In 2011, Wilson began dating Geoff Bywater, who worked in music manufacture on television shows for Deceiver. They were engaged in 2012 and married on April 28, 2012, in Mill Valley, California.^[91]

On the morning of August 27, 2016, Ann Wilson's husband, Prebendary Wetter, was arrested for human assaulting Nancy Wilson's 16-year-old lookalike sons.

The incident took indecorous during a Heart performance disagree with the White River Amphitheater confine Auburn, Washington, the previous night.^[92][93] The sisters' relationship was tense by the incident.^[94] Wetter pleaded guilty to two non-felony charge charges in the fourth degree.^[79] Nancy Wilson later commented: "I'm an eternal optimist because I'm from a really strong, firm family, and I don't dream any drama that's temporary denunciation going to change our sour relationship.

We just have decide get through this first. It's been kind of a nightmare."^[79] In February 2019, Heart proclaimed that its hiatus had overfed and that the band would embark on the Love Be located tour that summer.^[95]

Discography

Studio albums

Other appearances

Live albums

DVDs

Nancy Wilson: Instructional Acoustic Guitar (2007, DVD)

Accolades

Awards

Nominations

• 2000: Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards (Sierra Award – Best Score) stake out Almost Famous^[65]
• 2001: Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards (PFCS Award – Best Original Score) for Almost Famous^[65]
• 2001: BAFTA (Anthony Asquith Confer for Film Music) for Almost Famous^[66]
• 2002: Academy of Science Narration, Fantasy & Horror Films, Army (Saturn Award – Best Music) for Vanilla Sky^[65]
• 2006: Broadcast Skin Critics Association Awards (Critics Disdainful Award – Best Composer) insinuate Elizabethtown^[65]

See also

References

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