Nancy Wilson (rock musician)

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Nancy Wilson
Nancy Wilson May 2010
Background information
Birth name	Nancy Lamoureux Wilson
Born	March 16, 1954 (1954-03-16) (age 57) San Francisco, California
Genres	Rock, hard rock, folk rock, pop rock
Occupations	Musician, songwriter, singer, producer
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, 12-string guitar, mandolin, mandocello, harmonica, piano, keyboards, synthesizer, mellotron, autoharp, bass, pedal steel guitar, dobro, dulcimer
Years active	1974–present
Associated acts	Heart, The Lovemongers

Nancy Lamoureux Wilson (born March 16, 1954) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer who, with her older sister Ann and lead guitarist Roger Fisher, became the core of the Seattle/Vancouver rock 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 Marine Corps father retired to the Seattle suburb of Bellevue. Nancy finished high school, then attended Pacific University in Oregon and Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle^{[citation needed]} where she majored in art and German literature.^[1][2] 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, brother of Ann's boyfriend/Heart's manager Mike Fisher, lived together for some time.^[1][2]

While Ann is the lead singer on the majority of the Heart recordings, Nancy is the lead vocalist on notable tracks like "Treat Me Well", "These Dreams", "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. Wilson also has gone on to release an instrumental album called "Baby Guitars;" an EP to help babies fall asleep.

Nancy married U.S. film director and former Rolling Stone writer, Cameron Crowe, on July 27, 1986, and they have twin sons, William James Crowe and Curtis Wilson Crowe, born January 23, 2000.^[3] 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.^[4] The divorce was finalized on December 8, 2010.^[5]

Nancy has played a role in composing music for most of Crowe's films including Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous, Vanilla Sky, and Elizabethtown. She also had cameos in Crowe's The Wild Life (1984) as David's wife and Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) credited as "Beautiful Girl in Corvette". In 1989 Wilson contributed to the Say Anything... soundtrack with "All for Love".

In 2000, Nancy was featured in an instructional guitar video for Star Licks Productions.

Nancy and Ann both 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", with classical guitarist Sharon Isbin for Isbin's album Guitar Passions.^[6]

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} Kelly, Maura Interview with Nancy Wilson, The Believer, August 2007. Retrieved 2008-10-01.
2. ^ ^{a b} Bergman, Julie Guitar Queen of Heart, cover story, Acoustic Guitar, September 1999, No. 81.
3. ^ Nancy Wilson profile, nndb.com
4. ^ Rocker Nancy Wilson Divorcing Cameron Crowe, People.com
5. ^ ABC News Cameron Crowe, Nancy Wilson Finalize Divorce in LA, ABC News
6. ^ Sony notice in Classic fm, October 2011

External links

• Heart website
• More pictures of Nancy, Ann, Heart and the Lovemongers can be found at Category:Images of Heart (band)
• Nancy Wilson interview in The Believer magazine

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  Early 1970s

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  1978

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  At the 2004 Sweden Rock Festival

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  Nancy (left) and Ann Wilson playing at a charity concert for the Canary Foundation 28 July 2007

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