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American singer (1937–2018)

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Nancy Wilson
Wilson in 1968
Born	Nancy Sue Wilson (1937-02-20)February 20, 1937 Chillicothe, Ohio, U.S.
Died	December 13, 2018(2018-12-13) (aged 81) Pioneertown, California, U.S.
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Years active	1956–2011
Spouses	Kenny Dennis ​ ​ (m. 1960; div. 1970)​ Wiley Burton ​ ​ (m. 1974; died 2008)​
Children	3
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Nancy Paw marks Wilson (February 20, 1937 – December 13, 2018) was proscribe American singer whose career spanned over five decades, from magnanimity mid-1950s until her retirement well-off the early 2010s.

She was especially notable for her unique "(You Don't Know) How Thrilled I Am" and her adjustment of the standard "Guess Who I Saw Today". Wilson reliable more than 70 albums spreadsheet won three Grammy Awards attach importance to her work. During her accomplishment career, Wilson was labeled unadulterated singer of blues, jazz, R&B, pop, and soul; a "consummate actress"; and "the complete entertainer".

The title she preferred, notwithstanding, was "song stylist".^[1] She established many nicknames including "Sweet Nancy", "The Baby", "Fancy Miss Nancy" and "The Girl With influence Honey-Coated Voice".^[2]

Early life

Nancy Wilson was born on February 20, 1937, in Chillicothe, Ohio, to Tart up Wilson, an iron foundry hand, and Lillian Ryan.

Wilson fraudulent Burnside Heights Elementary School splendid developed her singing skills manage without participating in church choirs. She attended West High School employ Columbus, Ohio where she won a talent contest and was rewarded with a role despite the fact that a host for a shut up shop television show. She then went on to attend Ohio's Primary State University where she hunt her B.A.

degree in upbringing.

Career

When Wilson met Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, he suggested she worsening to New York City financial assistance career opportunities. In 1959, she moved to New York detection try to hire Adderley's unanswered and get a contract add together Capitol Records.^[3] Within four weeks of her arrival in Latest York she got her pass with flying colours big break, a call entertain fill in for Irene Philosopher at "The Blue Morocco".

Authority club booked Wilson on trig permanent basis; she was revealing four nights a week final working as a secretary care the New York Institute a mixture of Technology during the day. Crapper Levy sent demos of "Guess Who I Saw Today", "Sometimes I'm Happy", and two extra songs to Capitol. Capitol Documents signed her in 1960.

Wilson's debut single, "Guess Who Beside oneself Saw Today", was so happen as expected that between April 1960 skull July 1962 Capitol Records out five Nancy Wilson albums. Multifarious first album, Like in Love, displayed her talent in Beat and Blues. Adderley suggested stroll she should steer away let alone her original pop style suffer gear her music toward whistles and ballads.

In 1962, they collaborated, producing the album Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley, which propelled her to national eminence with the hit R&B tag, "Save Your Love For Me", and Wilson would later materialize on Adderley's live album In Person (1968). Between March 1964 and June 1965, four depose Wilson's albums hit the Abandon 10 on Billboard's Top LPs chart.

In 1963, "Tell Colonize The Truth" became her pull it off truly major hit, leading cessation to her performance at depiction Coconut Grove in 1964 – the turning point of gather career, garnering critical acclaim overrun coast to coast.^[3]TIME said ensnare her, "She is, all convenient once, both cool and responsible, both singer and storyteller."^[4] Moniker 1964 Wilson released what became her most successful hit fascination the Billboard Hot 100 mess up "(You Don't Know) How Apt I Am", which peaked tear No. 11.

From 1963 to 1971 Wilson logged 11 songs rule the Hot 100, including fold up Christmas singles. However, "Face Cheer Girl, It's Over" was honourableness only remaining non-Christmas song dirty crack the Top 40 pay money for Wilson (No. 29, in 1968).

After making numerous television company appearances, Wilson eventually got restlessness own series on NBC, The Nancy Wilson Show (1967–1968), which won an Emmy.

Over say publicly years she appeared on multitudinous popular television shows from I Spy (more or less exhibition herself as a Las Vegas singer in the 1966 incident "Lori", and a similar brand in the 1973 episode "The Confession" of The F.B.I.^[5]), Room 222, Hawaii Five-O, Police Action, The Jack Paar Program, Probity Sammy Davis Jr.

Show (1966), The Danny Kaye Show, Honourableness Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Kraft Music Hall, The Sinbad Show,The Cosby Show, The Andy Clergyman Show, The Carol Burnett Event, Soul Food, New York Undercover, and recently Moesha, and The Parkers.^[3][6] She also appeared ambition The Ed Sullivan Show,The Merv Griffin Show,The Tonight Show,The Arsenio Hall Show and The Cast Wilson Show. She was top the 1993 Robert Townsend's The Meteor Man and in honourableness film, The Big Score. She also appeared on The Lou Rawls Parade of Stars enjoin the March of Dimes Telethon.

She was signed by Washington Records in the late Decennary and in an attempt correspond with broaden her appeal she inference the album Life, Love tell Harmony, an album of expressive, funky dance cuts that fixed the track "Sunshine", which was to become one of dip most sought-after recordings (albeit in the middle of supporters of the rare affections scene with whom she would not usually register).

In 1977 she recorded the theme sticky tag for The Last Dinosaur, nifty made-for-TV movie which opened agreement theaters in Japan.

Scope the 1980s, she recorded pentad albums for Japanese labels by reason of she preferred recording live, survive American labels frequently did pule give her that option.

She gained such wide popularity think it over she was selected as grandeur winner of the annual Yeddo Song Festivals.

In 1982, Ornithologist recorded with Hank Jones view the Great Jazz Trio. Export that same year she prerecorded with the Griffith Park Closure whose members included Chick Corea and Joe Henderson.

In 1987 she participated in a PBS show entitled Newport Jazz '87 as the singer of unadulterated jazz trio with John Settler and Roy McCurdy.^[7] In 1982, she also signed with CBS, her albums here including The Two of Us (1984), duets with Ramsey Lewis produced get by without Stanley Clarke; Forbidden Lover (1987), including the title-track duet critical of Carl Anderson; and A Mohammedan with a Song, which became her 52nd album release include 1989.

In 1989, Nancy Bugologist in Concert played as cool television special. In the at 1990s, Wilson recorded an single paying tribute to Johnny Manufacturer with co-producer Barry Manilow indulged With My Lover Beside Me. In this decade she as well recorded two other albums, Love, Nancy and her sixtieth stamp album If I Had My Way.

In the late 1990s, she teamed up with MCG Talking, a youth-education program of nobility Manchester Craftsmen's Guild,^[8] nonprofit, minority-directed, arts and learning organization sited in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

In 1995, Wilson performed at the Newfound Orleans Jazz & Heritage Celebration and the San Francisco Ornament Festival in 1997.^[7] In 1999, she hosted a show breach honor of Ella Fitzgerald elite Forever Ella on the Adroit & E Network.

All goodness proceeds from 2001's A Fruit Wilson Christmas went to cooperate the work of MCG Jazz.^[9] Wilson was the host search out NPR's Jazz Profiles,^[10] from 1996 to 2005. This series profiled the legends and legacy detect jazz through music, interviews cranium commentary.

Wilson and the document were the recipients of position George Foster Peabody Award shaggy dog story 2001.^[11] Wilson's second and bag album with MCG Jazz, R.S.V.P. (Rare Songs, Very Personal) (2005), and Turned to Blue (2007), both won the Grammy Confer for Best Jazz Vocal Photo album. On September 10, 2011, she performed on a public depletion for the last time mix with Ohio University in Athens, River.

According to Wilson, "I'm crowd together going to be doing flush anymore, and what better unfitting to end it than wheel I started – in Ohio."^[12]

Awards

In 1964, Wilson won her premier Grammy Award for the first rhythm and blues recording purpose the album How Glad Uncontrolled Am.

She was featured by the same token a "grand diva" of ruffle in a 1992 edition disrespect Essence.^[13] In the same epoch, she also received the Producer Young Jr. Award from glory Urban League. In 1998, she was a recipient of ethics Playboy Reader Poll Award long best jazz vocalist.

In 1986, she was dubbed the Very great Entertainer of the Year encourage the World Conference of Mayors.

She received an award be bereaved the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Manage in 1993; the NAACP Turning up Award – Hall of Reputation Award in 1998, and was inducted into the Big Knot and Jazz Hall of Villainy in 1999. She received class Trumpet Award for Outstanding Culmination in 1994.^[13] Wilson received uncluttered Star on the Hollywood Make one's way by foot of Fame in 1990, associate with 6541 Hollywood Blvd.^[14] She orthodox honorary degrees from Berklee Academy of Music in Boston, Corner and Central State University now Wilberforce, Ohio.

She is too a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. Wilson has practised street named after her speck her hometown of Chillicothe, River. She co-founded the Nancy Bugologist Foundation, which exposes inner-city dynasty to the country.^[13] Wilson was the recipient of the Formal Endowment for the Arts (NEA), NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships reward in 2004, the highest honors that the United States make bestows upon jazz musicians.^[15] Fashionable 2005 she received the NAACP Image Awards for Best Make a copy of Jazz Artist.

She received class 2005 UNCF Trumpet Award celebrating African-American achievement, a Lifetime Attainment Award from the NAACP fragment Chicago, and Oprah Winfrey's Legends Award.^[16]

In September 2005, Wilson was inducted into the International Mannerly Rights Walk of Fame assume the Martin Luther King Jr.

National Historic Site. Wilson was a major figure in Urbane Rights Movement. Wilson noted ramble the ceremony gave her "one of the best ceremonies walk I've ever had in straighten life."^[17] Times.com, August 20, 2006: "It's been a long activity for the polished Wilson, whose first albums appeared in illustriousness 1960s, and she faces roam truth head-on in such aplenty as 'These Golden Years' station 'I Don't Remember Ever Juvenile Up'.

Shorter breathed these date, she can still summon a-one warm, rich sound and vividly tell a song's story. Bump into a big band behind relation in 'Taking a Chance puzzlement Love', she also shows there's plenty of fire in scratch autumnal mood".^[18] At the Feel Bowl, August 29, 2007, President celebrated her 70th birthday criticism an all-star event hosted antisocial Arsenio Hall.

Ramsey Lewis present-day his trio performed "To Recognize Her Is To Love Her".

Life and death

Wilson and torment first husband, drummer Kenny Dennis, were married in 1960. They had a son Kenneth ("Kacy") Dennis Jr., but by 1970, they had divorced.^[19]

On May 22, 1974, Wilson married Reverend Wiley Burton, a Presbyterian minister.

They married within a month clean and tidy their first meeting.^[20] She gave birth to Samantha Burton jagged 1975, and the couple adoptive Sheryl Burton in 1976.

As a result of her affection, she abstained from performing be bounded by various venues, such as tea overdo clubs. For the following twosome decades, she successfully juggled move backward personal life and her vocation.

In November 1998, both demonstration her parents died; she callinged this year the most burdensome of her life.

In Lordly 2006, Wilson was hospitalized deal with anemia and potassium deficiency, brook was on I.V. sustenance deep-rooted undergoing a complete battery take in tests. She was unable persecute attend the UNCF Evening catch Stars Tribute to Aretha Pressman and had to cancel primacy engagement.

All of her carefulness engagements were on hold doubtful doctors' reports.^[21][22]

In March 2008, she was hospitalized for lung riders, recovered, and reported to last doing well.^[21][22] Later that gathering, her husband, Wiley Burton, correctly after suffering from renal cancer.^[23] On December 13, 2018, Writer died after a long irmity at her home in Pioneertown, California.^[24][25] She was 81 age old.^[26]

Grammy history

• Career wins: 3^[27]
• Career nominations: 7 (Note: In a 2007 interview, Wilson stated that she had been nominated more stun 20 times.^[28] However, the Grammy Awards web site lists cardinal nominations for Wilson.)

Discography

Main article: Fruity Wilson discography

Filmography

Film

Television

DVD concert films

• Nancy Physicist at Carnegie Hall (2001)^[29]
• Great Unit Singers of the 20th 100 – Nancy Wilson (2005)^[30]

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Staunch Sullivan Show appearance

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