Nancy Wilson (jazz singer)

Nancy Wilson ( born February 20, 1937 in Chillicothe, Ohio ) is an American singer-songwriter and multiple Grammy winner.

Life

Nancy Wilson began her career as a singer in jazz clubs around Columbus (Ohio ) in the 1950s. Your first records she took on the late 50s. In the 1960s it became one of the most popular jazz singers and even got his own TV show, where she sang pop songs about the limits of jazz beyond the left are all the greater their popularity. In 1964 she was honored for her rendition of " How Glad I Am" with a Grammy for best vocal performance on the R & B sector. She performed with Nat King Cole and Sarah Vaughan in concerts. For her Nancy Wilson Show, she received an Emmy Award and was also a frequent guest in other shows. She also appeared regularly in Las Vegas.

As the popularity of Personality shows decreased, she returned in the 1980s back to jazz and worked with musicians such as Hank Jones, Art Farmer and Henry Johnson. Nancy Wilson is a regular new CDs, most recently Music for Lovers of Blue Note Records. For their album Turned to Blue ( 2006) she received in 2007, as early as 2005 for RSVP (Rare Songs, Very Personal ) the Grammy for best vocal album in jazz.

In 2004 she received the Jazz Masters Fellowship of the state NEA Foundation.