Nancy Wilson
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About|the jazz singer| Nancy Sue Wilson (February 20, 1937 – December 13, 2018) was an American singer whose career spanned five decades, from the mid-1950s to her retirement in the early-2010s.
She was known for her single "You Don't Know) How Glad I Am" and her interpretation of the classic "Guess Who I Saw Today" that she performed.
Wilson has sold more than 70 albums and received three Grammy Awards for her work.
Wilson was known as a "consummate actress," and "the complete entertainer" throughout her career.
However, she preferred the word "song stylist" rather than "song stylist."
"Sweet Nancy," "The Baby," "Fancy Miss Nancy," and "The Girl With the Honey-Coated Voice" were among her many nicknames.
Early life
Nancy Wilson was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, on February 20, 1937, to Olden Wilson, an iron foundry man, and Lillian Ryan. Wilson learned to sing by participating in church choirs at Burnside Heights Elementary School. She attended West High School in Columbus, Ohio, where she won a talent competition and was given a job as a host for a local television show. She then attended Central State University in Ohio, where she obtained her B.A. Education is a degree in education.
Life and death
Wilson married drummer Kenny Dennis in 1960. They had a son Kenneth ("Kacy") Dennis Jr., but they divorced by 1970. Wilson married Reverend Wiley Burton, a Presbyterian minister, within a month of meeting on May 22, 1973. Samantha Burton was born in 1975 and the couple adopted Sheryl Burton in 1976. She stopped appearing in various venues, such as supper clubs, as a result of her marriage. She juggled her personal life and work for the next two decades. Both of her parents died in November 1998; she characterized this year as the most difficult of her life.
Wilson was hospitalized with anemia and potassium deficiency in August 2006 and was on I.V. During a complete battery of tests, sustenance was low. She was unable to attend Aretha Franklin's Uncommon Throne & Stars Tribute and was forced to cancel the appearance. All of her other engagements were on hold pending doctors' reports.
She was hospitalized for lung injuries in March 2008 and recovered, and she seemed to be doing well. Wiley Burton, her husband, died of renal cancer in the same year. Wilson died of a long illness at her house in Pioneertown, California, on December 13, 2018. She was 81 years old at the time.
Career
Wilson suggested that she move to New York City for work opportunities after meeting Julian "Cannonball" Adderley. She moved to New York in 1959 to try to recruit Adderley's chief and get a deal with Capitol Records. She got her first big break within four weeks of her arrival in New York, a call to cover in for Irene Reid of "The Blue Morocco." Wilson was hired on a permanent basis by the club, and she was singing four nights a week and also served as a secretary for the New York Institute of Technology during the day. "Guess Who I Saw Today," "Sometimes I'm Happy," and two other songs were sent to Capitol by John Levy. In 1960, Capitol Records first signed her.
Wilson's debut single, "Guess Who I Saw Today," was so popular that Capitol Records released five Nancy Wilson albums between May 1960 and July 1962. Like in Love, her first album, displayed her natural talent in Rhythm and Blues. Adderley suggested that she move away from her original pop style and into jazz and ballads. Wilson and Cannonball Adderley collaborated in 1962, bringing the album Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley, which propelled her to national prominence with the hit R&B song "Save Your Love For Me," and Wilson would appear on Adderley's live album In Person (1968). Wilson's four albums reached the Top LPs chart from March 1964 to June 1965. "Tell Me The Truth" became her first major hit in 1963, leading up to her appearance at the Coconut Grove in 1964, the first major triumph in her career, receiving critical acclaim from coast to coast. "She is, both hot and sweet, both singer and storyteller," TIME said of her. Wilson's "You Don't Know" (You Don't Know) How Glad I Am" became her most popular hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1964. 11. Wilson logged 11 songs on the Hot 100, including two Christmas singles, from 1963 to 1971. Wilson's only remaining non-Christmas album, "Face It Girl, It's Over," was the only non-Christmas song to crack the Top 40 (No. 67). In 1968, there were 29 people in the United States.
Wilson won an Emmy after appearing on television guest stars, and she eventually got her own series on NBC, The Nancy Wilson Show (1967–1968), which attracted an Emmy. She appeared on many popular television shows from I Spy (more or less playing herself as a Las Vegas singer in the 1966 episode "The Confession" of The F.B.I. 222, Hawaii Five-O, Police Story, The Sammy Davis Jr. Exhibition (1966), The Danny Kaye Show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Cosby Show, The Andy Williams Exhibition, The Carmen Burnett Exhibition, The Uncover Queen, The Susan Parker Exhibition, The Sammy Davis Show (1966), The Sammy Davis Show, The Danny Kaye Show, The Sammy Davis Jr. Exhibition, The Sammy Davis Show, The Sammy Davis Show, The Timmy Davis Show, The Jack Paar 222, The Danny Kaye The Sammy The Danny Kaye The Danny Kaye County Show, The Danny Kaye Show, The Danny Kaye Brothers Comedy Hour, The Cos Show, The Cos The Danny Kaye Show, The Cosby Show, The Cosha Show, The Cosha Show, The Tom Burke Exhibition, The Joe Show, The Smothers Brother Comedy Hour, The Danny Kaye, The Sammy Wilson Show, The Jack Blake Brothers Comedy Hour, The Cos, The Danny Kaye Show, The Sammy Davis Jr. She has also appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Merv Griffin Exhibition, The Tonight Show, The Arsenio Hall Show, and The Flip Wilson Exhibition. She appeared in The Meteor Man, a 1993 Robert Townsend film, as well as The Big Score. She appeared on The Lou Rawls Parade of Stars and the March of Dimes Telethon.
She was signed by Capitol Records in the late 1970s and cut the album Life, Love and Harmony, an album of soulful, funky dance cuts with the track "Sunshine," which was to become one of her most in-demand dance cuts (although among supporters of the rare soul scene with whom she did not normally register). She performed the theme song for The Last Dinosaur, a Japanese made-for-TV film that premiered in theaters.
She made five albums for Japanese labels in the 1980s because she loved performing live, but American labels did not have that option. She became so popular that she was selected as the winner of the annual Tokyo Song Festivals.
Wilson appeared on Hank Jones and the Great Jazz Trio in 1982. Chick Corea and Joe Henderson were among the Griffith Park Band's members in the same year. In 1987, she appeared in PBS' Newport Jazz '87 as the singer of a jazz trio with John Williams and Roy McCurdy. She appeared on CBS in 1982, 1983; The Two of Us (1984), duets with Ramsey Lewis; Forbidden Lover (1987), which culminated in her 52nd album appearance in 1989, and A Lady with a Song. Nancy Wilson in Concert appeared in 1989 as a television special. Wilson produced With My Lover Beside Me in the early 1990s, a tribute to Johnny Mercer was released by co-producer Barry Manilow. She has released two other albums, Love, Nancy, and her sixtieth album If I Had My Way in this decade. She joined MCG Jazz, a youth-education service of the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, a non-directed, multicultural-focused arts and learning group headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the 1990s.
Wilson appeared at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and the San Francisco Jazz Festival in 1995. On the A & E Network in 1999, she hosted Forever Ella, a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald. All of the funds raised by A Nancy Wilson Christmas in 2001 went to fund MCG Jazz's efforts. Wilson appeared on NPR's Jazz Profiles from 1996 to 2005. This collection explored jazz's history and legacy through music, interviews, and commentary. In 2001, Wilson and the programme were the recipients of the George Foster Peabody Award. R.S.V.P. Wilson's second and third albums with MCG Jazz, R.S.V.P. (Rare Songs, Very Personal) (Real Music, Very Personal) 2005, 2005, and Turned to Blue (2007), both received the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album. For the last time at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, she appeared on a public stage on September 10, 2011. "I'm not going to be doing it anymore," Wilson says, and what better place to end it than where I started – in Ohio."