BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Description: Vocalist, USA – Jazz
Known For: Lush Life (Album)
Instruments: Voice
Music Styles: Jazz
Location: United States of America
Date Born: 20th February 1937
Location Born: Chillicothe, Ohio, United States of America
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Nancy Wilson
An American jazz singer.
Nancy Wilson is an American singer with over seventy albums, and three Grammy Awards so far in her career.
She’s been labeled a singer of blues, jazz, cabaret and pop; a “consummate actress”; and “the complete entertainer.” The title she prefers, however, is song stylist. She has received many nicknames “Sweet Nancy, The Baby” and the “Fancy Miss Nancy” are only two of them.
Wilson, moved to New York City in 1956, where she met Julian Cannonball Adderley, jazz alto saxophonist, in a recording session. She wanted Cannonball’s manager John Levy to represent her, and she wanted Capitol Records as her label.
Within four weeks of her arrival in New York she got her first big break, a call to fill in for Irene Reid at “The Blue Morocco”.
The club booked Wilson on a permanent basis, she was singing four nights a week and working as a secretary fot the New York Institute of Technology during the day.
Demos were sent of “Guess Who I Saw Today”, “Sometimes I’m Happy”, and two other songs to Capitol. Capitol Records signed her in 1960.
Nancy’s debut single, “Guess Who I Saw Today”, was so successful that between April 1960 and July 1962 Capitol Records released five Nancy Wilson albums, and a 1962 album with Adderley propelled her to national prominence.
In 1963 “Tell Me The Truth” became her first truly major hit, leading up to her performance at the Coconut Grove in 1964 – the turning pointing of her career garnering critical acclaim from coast to coast.[6] It was covered in Time magazine, She is, all at once, both cool and sweet, both singer and storyteller.
After doing numerous television guest appearances, Wilson eventually got her own series on NBC, “The Nancy Wilson Show” (1967-1968), that won an Emmy in 1975.
Wilson died from a long-illness on December 13, 2018 at her home in Pioneertown, California at the age of 81.
Over the years she has appeared on many popular television shows that include.
I Spy
Room 222
Hawaii Five-O
Police Story
The Jack Paar Program
The The Sammy Davis, Jr. Show
The Danny Kaye Show
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Kraft Music Hall
The Cosby Show
The Andy Williams Show
The Carol Burnett Show
Soul Food
New York Undercover
Moesha
The Parkers. S
She was in the 1993 Robert Townsend’s The Meteor Man (film).
In 1982 she signed with CBS, her albums here including The Two Of Us (1984), duets with Ramsey Lewis produced by Stanley Clarke; Forbidden Lover (1987), including the title track duet with Carl Anderson; and A Lady With A Song, which became her 52nd album release in 1989.
At the Hollywood Bowl, August 29, 2007, Nancy Wilson celebrated her 70th birthday with an all-star event hosted by Arsenio Hall.
Albums in the United States.
1962: ‘Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley’ (with Cannonball Adderley)
1962: ‘Hello Young Lovers’
1963: ‘Broadway-My Way’
1963: ‘Hollywood-My Way’
1964: ‘Yesterday’s Love Songs-Today’s Blues’
1964: ‘How Glad I Am’
1964: ‘Today, Tomorrow, Forever’
1965: ‘The Nancy Wilson Show’
1965: ‘Today-My Way’
1965: ‘Gentle Is My Love
1966: ‘From Broadway With Love’
1966: ‘A Touch Of Today’
1966: ‘Tender Loving Care’
1967: ‘Just For Now’
1967: ‘Lush Life’ –
1968: ‘Easy’ –
1969: ‘Hurt So Bad’
1971: ‘Now I’m A Woman’
1974: ‘All In Love Is Fair’
External links
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