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Born in Ohio, Wilson was a frequent collaborator with Cannonball Adderley among others. She participated in the Selma March in 1965 and received an NAACP Image Award in 1998. Wilson was also a successful actress and host, working on Hawaii 5-0 and Police Story. Although she never considered herself a jazz singer, she hosted NPR’s “Jazz Profiles” series. She is survived by her children and grandchildren
Read More: https://www.vulture.com/2018/12/guess-who-i-saw-today-singer-nancy-wilson-has-died.html
Nancy Wilson, whose skilled and flexible approach to singing provided a key bridge between the sophisticated jazz-pop vocalists of the 1950s and the powerhouse pop-soul singers of the 1960s and ‘70s, died Thursday at her home in Pioneertown, Calif. She was 81.
Wilson’s death, which came after a long illness, was confirmed by her manager, Devra Hall Levy.
In her long and celebrated career, Wilson performed American standards, jazz ballads, Broadway show tunes, R&B torch songs and middle-of-the-road pop pieces, all delivered with a heightened sense of a song’s narrative.
“I have a gift for telling stories, making them seem larger than life,” she told the Los Angeles Times in 1993. “I love the vignette, the plays within the song.”
~Post Gazette
Read More: https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/music/2018/12/14/Nancy-Wilson-Dies-at-81-Jazz-Singer-Who-Turned-Songs-Into-Stories/stories/201812140084
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