Struggles and Triumphs:
In music. with musicians there's a saying 'give the drummer some' for Legendary Song Stylist extraordinaire Nancy Wilson she literally did that:-) her first husband was drummer Kenny Dennis, they were married a little shy of a decade and from that union came a son name Kenny Dennis. Nancy was born in Ohio, the oldest of six siblingsz. She began singing at 4 years old. She worked with jazz legend Cannonballl Adderly, who gave her the break she deserved. Being a beauty got her a lot of attention, she was a trailblazer having had her own variety series in the '60s, the Emmy-winning The Nancy Wilson Show. With success demons lurk, she battled a heroin drug addiction and overcame. In 1973, she married a Presbyterian minister, the Reverend Wiley Burton. She gave birth to Samantha Burton in 1975, and the couple adopted Sheryl Burton in 1976. Choosing to move away from the busy life of Hollywood, she relocated to Pioneertown, California, to raise her children in a rural setting.
The American singer has more than 70 albums, and three Grammy Awards. She is Idolized by singers such as Chaka Khan, Regina Belle and the late Phyllis Hyman( who viewed Nancy as a best friend). Having 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.
August 2006, Wilson was hospitalized with anemia and potassium deficiency, and was on I.V. sustenance while undergoing a complete battery of tests
March 2008, she was hospitalized for lung complications, recovered and claimed to be doing well. In the same year, her husband, Wiley Burton, died after suffering from renal cancer.
In 2011 Wilson confirmed that after 60 years, she will perform on a public stage for the last time at Ohio University, giving her final show in the same state that she gave her first. Thanks Ms. Wison for always being a class act, exuding 'style and grace'.
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