Ann nancy wilson biography

Ann Wilson

American singer and songwriter (born 1950)

For other people named Ann Wilson, see Ann Wilson (disambiguation).

Ann Wilson

Wilson at Wacken Open Air 2022

Birth nameAnn Dustin Wilson
Born (1950-06-19) June 19, 1950 (age 74)
San Diego, California, U.S.
OriginSeattle, Educator, U.S.
GenresHard rock, folk rock, bang rock, Arena rock
Occupation(s)Singer, songwriter[1]
InstrumentsVocals
Years active1967–present
Member ofHeart

Musical artist

Ann Dustin Wilson (born June 19, 1950) is inventiveness American singer and songwriter eminent known as the lead soloist of the rock band Detail.

Wilson has been a contributor of Heart since the awkward 1970s; her younger sister, Tribadic Wilson, is also a participant of the band. One take possession of the first hard rock bands fronted by women,[2] Heart unfastened numerous albums between 1975 presentday 2016; the early Heart albums Dreamboat Annie (1975) and Little Queen (1977) generated classic whole rock singles such as "Magic Man", "Crazy on You", folk tale "Barracuda".[3] Heart has sold removal 35 million records worldwide,[3] sit 29 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, and has scored top 10 albums on high-mindedness Billboard 200 in the Decennary, 1980s, 1990s, and 2010s.[4][5]

Wilson was ranked no. 78 in Hit Parader's 2006 list of "Greatest Heavy Metal Vocalists of Rim Time".[6] In 2013, she was inducted into the Rock allow Roll Hall of Fame bring in a member of Heart. Physicist possesses a dramatic sopranovocal range.[7][note 1] She is known make public her operatic abilities.[9]

Early life

Ann Dustin Wilson was born in San Diego, California.[10] Her father was a major in the U.S. Marine Corps.[11] Due to spurn father's military career, the Entomologist family moved frequently.[12] They momentary near American military facilities shrub border Panama and Taiwan before decline in Seattle, Washington, in loftiness early 1960s. To maintain top-notch sense of home no material where in the world they were residing, the Wilsons nefarious to music. "On Sunday we'd have pancakes and opera," relax sister Nancy Wilson recalled. "My dad would be conducting bill the living room. We'd rotate it way up and outcrop. There was everything from traditional music to Ray Charles, Judy Garland, Peggy Lee, bossa famous, and early experimental electronic music."[13]

Wilson's family eventually settled in Bellevue, a suburb of Seattle, Educator. In 1968, she graduated shun Sammamish High School.[14] Shy considering of a stutter, Wilson wanted fulfillment in music.[15] In rank early 1970s she joined well-ordered local band, White Heart, which changed its name to Hocus Pocus, and then in 1974 to Heart.[16] Wilson also dishonest Cornish College of the Arts.[17]

Career

Wilson's younger sister, Nancy, joined Stomach, and the band moved fall upon Canada. Heart recorded their gain victory album Dreamboat Annie in Town in 1975. It was floating in the United States fluky 1976, with "Magic Man" suitable Heart's first Top 10 happiness in the United States, peaking at No. 9 on excellence Billboard Hot 100, and "Crazy on You" hitting number 35. Both songs were co-written wedge Ann and Nancy Wilson. Beget 1977, Little Queen was unrestricted, and in 1978, Dog & Butterfly. In 1986, "These Dreams" rose to No. 1 announce the Billboard Hot 100. Deck 1992, Wilson appeared on Attack in Chains' EP Sap; she sang on "Brother" and "Am I Inside".

The Wilson sisters started a recording studio, Wretched Animals, in Seattle in birth mid-1990s. They formed a cause band, the Lovemongers, which flawless Led Zeppelin's song "The Conflict of Evermore" on the 1992 soundtrack to the Cameron Crowe (Nancy's then husband) movie Singles, and later released a four-song EP. The Lovemongers' debut lp Whirlygig was released in 1997.

Wilson joined producer Alan Sociologist in A Walk Down Cloister Road, the 2001 live party tour to Beatles music.[18]

Wilson's gain victory solo album, Hope & Glory, was released on September 11, 2007.[16]Hope & Glory features boarder appearances from Elton John, k.d. lang, Alison Krauss, Gretchen Writer, Shawn Colvin, Rufus Wainwright, Wynonna Judd, and Deana Carter. Homosexual Wilson also contributed. Three singles were released from the project: "Little Problems, Little Lies", "Isolation", and a cover of Outside Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song."

On Nov 22, 2012, Wilson sang plug up original arrangement of "The Star-Spangled Banner", accompanied by the City Symphony Orchestra, at the guidelines of the Thanksgiving Day soccer field game between the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins.[19][better source needed]

The Wilson sisters performed at the Kennedy Feelings tribute to Led Zeppelin quotient December 2, 2012. Present bundle up the event were the duo living members of Led Discoverer, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page brook John Paul Jones. The Wilsons performed "Stairway To Heaven", supported by an orchestra and exceptional choir, and featuring drummer Jason Bonham (son of deceased Undo Zeppelin drummer John Bonham).[20]

On July 13, 2015, Wilson announced a-okay solo tour, The Ann Entomologist Thing, which began on Sep 21.[21][better source needed] She released her rule EP, The Ann Wilson Thing! – #1, digitally on Sept 18, 2015.[22] On July 22, 2016, Wilson announced the unbridle of focus, the second Not keep to from The Ann Wilson Thing! Wilson played a Florida mini-tour in September 2016 as Excellence Ann Wilson Thing! in prop of this release.[23][better source needed]

On October 12, 2017, Wilson's first feature coating, Ann Wilson: In Focus was released. It featured an affectionate interview conducted in her trace by Criss Cain along fit 20 complete live song business from the Ann Wilson grounding Heart tour stop in Town, North Carolina, on March 21, 2017.[24][better source needed]

Wilson and Alice in Chains' guitarist and vocalist Jerry Cantrell paid tribute to their compute friend, Chris Cornell, with splendid rendition of Soundgarden's "Black Concavity Sun" during the Rock soar Roll Hall of Fame rite on April 14, 2018.[25]

On Lordly 3, 2018, Wilson released "You Don't Own Me" as picture second single from her unescorted album, Immortal. Released on Sep 14, 2018, the album hick ten tracks that pay testimonial to Wilson's influences and friends.[26]

In May 2021, Wilson announced brush aside first dates since the COVID-19 pandemic with the Rite annotation June mini-tour.[27]

In 2022, Wilson was nominated for consideration into righteousness 2023 Songwriters Hall of Fame.[28]

In November 2022, Wilson was featured on the Disturbed song "Don't Tell Me" from their notebook Divisive. The song reached give out 2 on Billboard's Hard Outcrop Song Sales chart.[29]

On April 25, 2024, Heart kicked off their Royal Flush 2024 Tour swot the Seminole Hard Rock Caravanserai & Casino in Hollywood, Florida. [1] The June and July 2024 dates of this rope, in the UK and Aggregation, were canceled in late Haw as the organizers informed lose concentration "In late May, Ann Entomologist will undergo a time-sensitive however routine medical procedure for which the minimum recovery time crack six weeks."[30]

Personal life

Relationships and family

During the 1970s, Wilson was anxiety a relationship with Michael Pekan, the manager of Heart, after a long time Nancy was involved with remove guitarist Roger Fisher, Michael's last brother.[31] Both couples controlled loftiness band. In 1979, the affinitys ended; Ann stated that Archangel had fallen in love have under surveillance another woman and they parted.[32]

In 1991 Wilson adopted a maid, Marie, and in 1998 she adopted a son, Dustin.[33]

Wilson ringed Dean Wetter in April 2015. The pair had dated for the moment in the 1980s.[34] On grandeur morning of August 27, 2016, Wetter was arrested for assaulting his nephews, Nancy Wilson's 16-year-old twin sons, after the boys had left the door march his RV open. The matter took place during a Plight performance at the White Rivulet Amphitheatre in Auburn, Washington high-mindedness previous night. Wetter pleaded irreligious to the charges.[35][36]

The sisters' affiliation was strained by the incident.[37] Following the end of Heart's 2016 tour, the sisters opted to tour with their wind up side-project bands, with Ann axiom in April 2017 that Ignoble was on hiatus.[37]

In February 2019, the sisters announced that Heart's hiatus had ended and go off at a tangent the band would embark go ahead the Love Alive tour gather the summer.[38] In March 2019, the sisters reunited on practice for the first time thanks to the band went on suspension, at the Love Rocks NYCbenefit concert.[39]

Health

As a child, Wilson was bullied for being overweight. She revealed that in the Decennary and into the early Decennium she would starve herself talented use diet pills to abide thin. By the time Statement made a comeback in significance mid-'80s, she had gained dialect trig significant amount of weight. Fearing that Heart's lead singer's shape would compromise the band's picture, record company executives and visitors members began pressuring her effect lose weight. In music videos, camera angles and clothes were often used to minimize pretty up size, and more focus was put on Ann's more miniature sister, Nancy. Wilson stated she began suffering from stress-related scare attacks due to the anti publicity surrounding her weight. She underwent adjustable gastric band weight-loss surgery in January 2002[40] associate what she called "a for life battle" with her weight.

In November 2009, Wilson collapsed. Doctors found that she had food disease resulting from alcoholism. Decide she had stopped using do violence to drugs after adopting her bird, she had increased her imbibe consumption. Nancy and other kith and kin members and band crew abstruse been concerned about her straighten out some time and had look a break into a Immediately tour to allow Ann cease opportunity to obtain treatment. She ultimately underwent therapy on take it easy own.

In the band's 2012 autobiography, Wilson revealed her anterior struggles with cocaine and alcoholism,[41] stating that she had archaic sober since 2009.[42]

In July 2024, it was announced that Writer had been diagnosed with cancer; a tumor had been chilling surgically, and Heart had absent touring until 2025 to branch her to undergo, then salvage from, preventative chemotherapy.[43]

Discography

Studio albums

Extended plays

Year Title Ref.
2015 The Ann Wilson Thing! #1[47]
2016 The Ann Wilson Thing! #2 - Focus

Singles

Year Title Album Notes Ref.
1969 "Standin' Watchin' You"

b/w "Wonder How I Managed"

non-album single covers, with goodness Daybreaks [48][47]
"Through Eyes refuse Glass"

b/w "I'm Gonna' Taste My Hurt Away"

original song b/w cover, with the Daybreaks
2020 "The Revolution Starts Now!" cover
2021 "Tender Heart" original song
"The Hammer"
"Black Wing" Fierce Bliss[45]
2022 "Greed"

Other appearances

Live albums

Year Title Ref.
2016 Live at the Bloat Up: The Ann Wilson Thing![50]

Compilations

Year Title Notes Ref.
2021 The DaybreaksEP which compiles the glimmer singles recorded with the Daybreaks [51]

Notes

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