NANCY WILSON
Vocal Jazz • United States
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Nancy Wilson 1937-2018
The wide-ranging singer made lasting contributions to jazz, R&B, and pop over five decades
Nancy Wilson, an NEA Jazz Master vocalist who was best known as a jazz singer but who cut deep inroads into rhythm & blues and pop over her 50-year career, died on Dec. 13 at her home in Pioneertown, Calif. She was 81.
According to a press statement from her manager Devra Hall Levy, Wilson’s death came at the end of a long illness. No further details were given.
Wilson’s effortless ability to cross genres was a testament to the suppleness and range of her craft—she insisted on categorizing herself as only “a song stylist”—but her talents were even richer than her career trajectory would imply. Her first hit, 1960’s “Guess Who I Saw Today,” established her as a performer with a delicate, punctilious approach to ballads; at the same time, she was recording hard-swinging, brassy
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Easy
Vocal Jazz
1968
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Nancy
Vocal Jazz
1969
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Close Up
Vocal Jazz
1969
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Godsend
Vocal Jazz
1984
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