ANN WILSON

'Ann Dustin Wilson' (born June 19, 1950 in San Diego, California) is the lead singer and flute player^[1] of Heart.

Contents

Biography

Recording career

Solo career

References

External links

Biography

Wilson's family moved around as a child because her father was a Marine Corps colonel. The family eventually settled in Bellevue, a suburb of Seattle, Washington. Shy due to a stutter, Wilson turned to music, and in the early 1970s she joined a local band, Whiteheart, which, in 1974, changed its name to Heart.

Recording career

Her younger sister Nancy joined the group in 1974. The band moved to Canada and cut their first album ''Dreamboat Annie'' in Vancouver in 1975. It was released in the United States in 1976. In 1977, ''Little Queen'' was released. She also sang the duet "Almost Paradise" with Mike Reno in the movie ''Footloose''.
Ann started a recording studio, ''Bad Animals'', with her sister in the mid-1990s. She formed a side band, The Lovemongers, which performed ''Battle of Evermore'' on the soundtrack to brother-in-law Cameron Crowe's 1992 movie ''Singles'' and later released a four-song EP. The band's debut album ''Whirlygig'' was released in 1997.
Ann adopted her daughter Marie in 1991 and her son Dustin in 1998. She underwent a weight-loss surgery called Adjustable gastric band in January 2002^[2] after what she calls "a lifelong battle" with her weight. In June 2004, Heart released ''Jupiter's Darling'', which is a popular favorite among classic rock stations.

Solo career

In 2006, Ann began recording her first solo album, "Hope & Glory", produced by the legendary Ben Mink, and released by the Rounder (Zoe) Music Group on September 11, 2007.
"Hope & Glory" features guest appearances from Elton John, k.d. lang, Alison Krauss, Gretchen Wilson, Shawn Colvin, Rufus Wainwright, Wynonna Judd and Deana Carter. Ann's sister, Nancy, also contributed.
'Hope & Glory - Track Listing:'
#"Goodbye Blue Sky" with Nancy Wilson (Written by Roger Waters - Popular version by Pink Floyd)
#"Where to now St. Peter" with Elton John (John/Taupin - Elton John)
#"Jackson" with k.d. lang (Leiber/Wheeler - Lucinda Williams)
#"We Gotta Get Out of This Place" with Wynonna Judd (Mann/Weil - The Animals)
#"Immigrant Song" (Page/Plant - Led Zeppelin)
#"Darkness, Darkness" with Nancy Wilson (Jesse Colin Young - The Youngbloods)
#"Bad Moon Rising" with Gretchen Wilson (Fogerty - Creedence Clearwater Revival)
#"War of Man" with Alison Krauss (Neil Young)
#"Get Together" with Nancy Wilson, Deana Carter & Wynonna Judd (Powers - The Youngbloods)
#"Isolation" (Lennon)
#"A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" with Rufus Wainwright & Shawn Colvin (Dylan)
#"Little Problems, Little Lies" (Ann Wilson)
''Temporary entry:

''Currently, (early Sept 2007), previews of "Immigrant Song" and "Where to now St. Peter" can be heard on Ann Wilson's "official" myspace page.''

References

1. For a discussion of the use of the words flutist, flautist, fluter and flute player, click on any of these links.
2. "Wilson weightloss", ''USA Today''. Accessed June 2007.

External links

★ Heart

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