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{{short description|American jazz singer (1937–2018)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name            = Nancy Wilson
| image           = Nancy Wilson (1968).jpg
| caption         = Wilson in 1968
| birth_name      = Nancy Sue Wilson
| birth_date      = {{birth date|1937|2|20}}
| death_date      = {{death date and age|2018|12|13|1937|2|20}}
| birth_place     = [[Chillicothe, Ohio]], U.S.
| death_place     = [[Pioneertown, California]], U.S.
| occupation      = {{hlist|Singer|actress}}
| years_active    = 1956–2011
| spouse          = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|[[Kenny Dennis]]<br />|1960|1970|reason=div.}}
* {{marriage|Wiley Burton<br />|1974|2008|reason=d.}}
}}
| children        = 3
| module          = {{Infobox musical artist|embed=yes
| background      = solo_singer <!-- mandatory field -->
| instrument      = {{flatlist|
*Vocals
}}
| genre = {{flatlist|
*[[Rhythm and Blues|R&B]]
*[[soul music|soul]]
*[[Pop music|pop]]
*[[jazz]]
*[[blues]]}}
| label           = {{flatlist|
*MCG Jazz
*[[Capitol Records|Capitol]]
*Sony Records
*Columbia Records
*[[Blue Note Records|Blue Note]]}}
}}
}}
'''Nancy Sue Wilson''' (February 20, 1937 – December 13, 2018) was an American singer whose career spanned over five decades, from the mid-1950s until her retirement in the early 2010s. She was especially notable for her single "[[(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am]]" and her version of the standard "[[Guess Who I Saw Today]]". Wilson recorded more than 70 albums and won three Grammy Awards for her work. During her performing career, Wilson was labeled a singer of [[blues]], [[jazz]], [[Rhythm and Blues|R&B]], [[pop music|pop]], and [[soul music|soul]]; a "consummate actress"; and "the complete entertainer". The title she preferred, however, was "song stylist".<ref name="nw-npr-bio">{{Cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/people/2101390/nancy-wilson |title=Nancy Wilson, NPR Biography |publisher=NPR |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140120125235/http://www.npr.org/people/2101390/nancy-wilson |archive-date=January 20, 2014 |access-date=January 29, 2012}}</ref> She received many nicknames including "Sweet Nancy", "The Baby", "Fancy Miss Nancy" and "The Girl With the Honey-Coated Voice".<ref name="nw-ebony-bio">{{Cite web |url=https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-159391748 |title=Nancy Wilson (Center Stage) (Biography) |date=March 1, 2007 |publisher=Ebony Magazine |url-access= |access-date=}}{{dead link|date=July 2021}}</ref>

== Early life ==
Nancy Wilson was born on February 20, 1937, in [[Chillicothe, Ohio]], to Olden Wilson, an iron foundry worker, and Lillian Ryan.

Wilson  attended Burnside Heights Elementary School and developed her singing skills by participating in church choirs. She attended [[West High School (Columbus, Ohio)|West High School]] in Columbus, Ohio where she won a talent contest and was rewarded with a role as a host for a local television show. She then went on to attend Ohio's [[Central State University]] where she pursued her [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] degree in education.

== Career ==
[[File:Lloyd Haynes Nancy Wilson 1970.JPG|thumb|Wilson with [[Lloyd Haynes]] in a guest appearance on TV's ''[[Room 222]]'' (1970)]]
When Wilson met [[Cannonball Adderley|Julian "Cannonball" Adderley]], he suggested she move to New York City for career opportunities. In 1959, she moved to New York to try to hire Adderley's manager and get a contract with Capitol Records.<ref name="nw-bio1">{{Cite web |url=http://missnancywilson.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=26 |title=Miss Nancy Wilson Biography |date=August 25, 2004 |publisher=Missnancywilson.com |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208080535/http://missnancywilson.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=26 |archive-date=February 8, 2012 |access-date=January 29, 2012}}</ref> Within four weeks of her arrival in New York she got her first big break, a call to fill in for [[Irene Reid]] at "The Blue Morocco". The club booked Wilson on a permanent basis; she was singing four nights a week and working as a secretary for the [[New York Institute of Technology]] during the day. [[John Levy (musician)|John Levy]] sent demos of "Guess Who I Saw Today", "[[Sometimes I'm Happy (Sometimes I'm Blue)|Sometimes I'm Happy]]", and two other songs to Capitol. Capitol Records signed her in 1960.

Wilson's debut single, "[[Guess Who I Saw Today]]", was so successful that between April 1960 and July 1962 Capitol Records released five Nancy Wilson albums. Her first album, ''Like in Love,'' displayed her talent in Rhythm and Blues. Adderley suggested that she should steer away from her original pop style and gear her music toward jazz and ballads. In 1962, they collaborated, producing the album ''[[Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley]]'', which propelled her to national prominence with the hit R&B song, "Save Your Love For Me", and Wilson would later appear on Adderley's live album ''[[In Person (Cannonball Adderley album)|In Person]]'' (1968). Between March 1964 and June 1965, four of Wilson's albums hit the Top 10 on ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]''{{'}}s Top LPs chart. In 1963, "Tell Me The Truth" became her first truly major hit, leading up to her performance at the [[Cocoanut Grove (Los Angeles)|Coconut Grove]] in 1964 – the turning point of her career, garnering critical acclaim from coast to coast.<ref name="nw-bio1" /> ''[[Time magazine|TIME]]'' said of her, "She is, all at once, both cool and sweet, both singer and storyteller."<ref name="nw-time-1964">{{Cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,875977,00.html |title=Singers: The Greatest Pretender |date=July 17, 1964 |magazine=Time Magazine |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071022173200/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,875977,00.html |archive-date=October 22, 2007 |access-date=August 12, 2013}}</ref> In 1964 Wilson released what became her most successful hit on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 with "(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am", which peaked at No.&nbsp;11. From 1963 to 1971 Wilson logged 11 songs on the Hot 100, including two Christmas singles. However, "Face It Girl, It's Over" was the only remaining non-Christmas song to crack the Top 40 for Wilson (No. 29, in 1968).
[[File:Danny Kaye-Nancy Wilson - 1965.JPG|thumb|left|200px|Wilson and [[Danny Kaye]], 1965]]
[[File:Grand Gala du Disque in RAI. Nancy Wilson , een van de sterren, Bestanddeelnr 921-1405.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Wilson in March 1968]]
After making numerous television guest appearances, Wilson eventually got her own series on NBC, ''The Nancy Wilson Show'' (1967–1968), which won an [[Emmy]]. Over the years she appeared on many popular television shows from ''[[I Spy (1965 TV series)|I Spy]]'' (more or less playing herself as a Las Vegas singer in the 1966 episode "Lori", and a similar character in the 1973 episode "The Confession" of [[The F.B.I. (TV series)|''The F.B.I.'']]<ref name="nw-tvfbi">{{Cite web |url=http://www.tv.com/shows/the-fbi/the-confession-157552/ |title=The F.B.I., Season 9, Episode 2, The Confession |date=September 30, 1973 |publisher=tv.com |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112123537/http://www.tv.com/shows/the-fbi/the-confession-157552/ |archive-date=November 12, 2013 |access-date=March 9, 2014}}</ref>), ''[[Room 222]], [[Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series)|Hawaii Five-O]], [[Police Story (1973 TV series)|Police Story]], [[The Jack Paar Program]], The [[Sammy Davis Jr.]] Show (1966), [[The Danny Kaye Show]], [[The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour]], [[Kraft Music Hall (TV series)|Kraft Music Hall]], [[The Sinbad Show]],'' ''[[The Cosby Show]], [[The Andy Williams Show]], [[The Carol Burnett Show]], [[Soul Food (TV series)|Soul Food]], [[New York Undercover]],'' ''[[Moesha]]'' and ''[[The Parkers]].''<ref name="nw-bio1" /><ref name="nw-imdb">{{Cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0933897/bio |title=Nancy Wilson (II) |publisher=IMDb |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140323203806/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0933897/bio |archive-date=March 23, 2014 |access-date=March 16, 2014}}</ref> She was a guest on numerous popular variety and talk shows including ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]],'' ''[[The Merv Griffin Show]],'' ''[[The Tonight Show]],'' ''[[The Arsenio Hall Show]]'' and ''[[The Flip Wilson Show]].'' She was in the 1993 [[Robert Townsend (actor)|Robert Townsend]]'s ''[[The Meteor Man (film)|The Meteor Man]]'' and in the film, ''The Big Score.'' She also appeared on ''[[Lou Rawls|The Lou Rawls Parade of Stars]]'' and the ''March of Dimes Telethon''.

She was signed by Capitol Records in the late 1970s and in an attempt to broaden her appeal she cut the album ''Life, Love and Harmony'', an album of soulful, funky dance cuts that included the track "Sunshine", which was to become one of her most sought-after recordings (albeit among supporters of the rare soul scene with whom she would not usually register). In 1977 she recorded the theme song for ''[[The Last Dinosaur]]'', a made-for-TV movie which opened in theaters in [[Japan]].
[[File:Nancy Wilson, Fundo Correio da Manhã.tif|thumb|left|An undated photo of Wilson from the [[Brazilian National Archives|National Archives of Brazil]]]] In the 1980s, she recorded five albums for Japanese labels because she preferred recording live, and American labels frequently did not give her that option. She gained such wide popularity that she was selected as the winner of the annual [[Tokyo]] Song Festivals.

In 1982, Wilson recorded with [[Hank Jones]] and the [[Great Jazz Trio]]. In that same year she recorded with the [[Echoes of an Era 2: The Concert|Griffith Park Band]] whose members included [[Chick Corea]] and [[Joe Henderson]]. In 1987 she participated in a PBS show entitled ''Newport Jazz '87'' as the singer of a jazz trio with [[John Williams (bassist)|John Williams]] and [[Roy McCurdy]].<ref name="nw-oxfrd">{{Cite web |url=http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/J488600 |title=Wilson, Nancy (Sue) |publisher=Oxford University Press |url-access=subscription |access-date=March 16, 2014}}</ref> In 1982, she also signed with CBS, her albums here including ''The Two of Us'' (1984), duets with [[Ramsey Lewis]] produced by [[Stanley Clarke]]; ''Forbidden Lover'' (1987), including the title-track duet with [[Carl Anderson (singer)|Carl Anderson]]; and ''A Lady with a Song'', which became her 52nd album release in 1989. In 1989, ''Nancy Wilson in Concert'' played as a television special. In the early 1990s, Wilson recorded an album paying tribute to [[Johnny Mercer]] with co-producer [[Barry Manilow]] entitled ''With My Lover Beside Me''. In this decade she also recorded two other albums, ''[[Love, Nancy]]'' and her sixtieth album ''[[If I Had My Way (album)|If I Had My Way]]''. In the late 1990s, she teamed up with MCG Jazz, a youth-education program of the [[Manchester Craftsmen's Guild]],<ref name="nw-craftmen">{{Cite web |url=http://www.manchesterguild.org/indexflash.htm |title=Manchester Craftsmen's Guild |publisher=manchesterguild.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070117074244/http://www.manchesterguild.org/indexflash.htm |archive-date=January 17, 2007 |access-date=March 9, 2014}}</ref> nonprofit, minority-directed, arts and learning organization located in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]].

In 1995, Wilson performed at the [[New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival]] and the [[San Francisco Jazz Festival]] in 1997.<ref name="nw-oxfrd" /> In 1999, she hosted a show in honor of [[Ella Fitzgerald]] entitled ''Forever Ella'' on the A & E Network. All the proceeds from 2001's ''[[A Nancy Wilson Christmas]]'' went to support the work of [[MCG Jazz]].<ref name="nw-cdreview">{{Cite web |url=http://www.jazzreview.com/cdreview.cfm?ID=770 |title=CD Title: A Nancy Wilson Christmas |publisher=JazzReview.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071222050721/http://www.jazzreview.com/cdreview.cfm?ID=770 |archive-date=December 22, 2007 |access-date=March 16, 2014}}</ref> Wilson was the host on [[NPR]]'s ''[[Jazz Profiles]]'',<ref name="nw-npr-profiles">{{Cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/series/10208861/npr-s-jazz-profiles |title=NPR Music – Jazz Profiles |publisher=NPR |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101032949/http://www.npr.org/series/10208861/npr-s-jazz-profiles |archive-date=January 1, 2014 |access-date=January 29, 2012}}</ref> from 1996 to 2005. This series profiled the legends and legacy of jazz through music, interviews and commentary. Wilson and the program were the recipients of the [[George Foster Peabody Award]] in 2001.<ref name="nw-peabody">{{Cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/about/press/020327.peabody.html |title=NPR Collects Two Peabody Awards For September 11 Coverage and Jazz Profiles |date=March 27, 2002 |publisher=NPR |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120519093345/http://www.npr.org/about/press/020327.peabody.html |archive-date=May 19, 2012 |access-date=March 9, 2014}}</ref> Wilson's second and third album with MCG Jazz, ''[[R.S.V.P. (Rare Songs, Very Personal)]]'' (2005), and ''[[Turned to Blue]]'' (2007), both won the [[Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album]]. On September 10, 2011, she performed on a public stage for the last time at [[Ohio University]] in [[Athens, Ohio]]. According to Wilson, "I'm not going to be doing it anymore, and what better place to end it than where I started – in Ohio."<ref name="retirement">{{Cite news |url=http://www.jazzcolumbus.com/legendary-jazz-singer-nancy-wilson-to-perform-last-show-in-athens/ |title=Legendary Jazz Singer Nancy Wilson, To Perform Last Show in Athens |access-date=December 25, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141226001316/http://www.jazzcolumbus.com/legendary-jazz-singer-nancy-wilson-to-perform-last-show-in-athens/ |archive-date=December 26, 2014 |publisher=jazzcolumbus.com}}</ref>

==Awards==
[[File:Nancy Wilson.jpg|thumb|Wilson in 1997]]
In 1964, Wilson won her first [[Grammy Award]] for the best [[rhythm and blues]] recording for the album ''How Glad I Am''. She was featured as a "grand diva" of jazz in a 1992 edition of ''[[Essence (magazine)|Essence]]''.<ref name="nw-ency-bio">{{Cite web |url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2871200077.html |title=Wilson, Nancy – 1937 |publisher=encyclopedia.com |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100402040509/http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2871200077.html |archive-date=April 2, 2010 |access-date=June 24, 2009}}</ref> In the same year, she also received the [[Whitney Young]] Jr. Award from the Urban League. In 1998, she was a recipient of the ''[[Playboy]]'' Reader Poll Award for best jazz vocalist.

In 1986, she was dubbed the Global Entertainer of the Year by the World Conference of Mayors. She received an award from the [[Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change]] in 1993; the [[NAACP Image Award – Hall of Fame Award]] in 1998, and was inducted into the [[Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame]] in 1999. She received the Trumpet Award for Outstanding Achievement in 1994.<ref name="nw-ency-bio" /> Wilson received a Star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] in 1990, at 6541 Hollywood Blvd.<ref name="nw-star">{{Cite web |url=http://www.walkoffame.com/nancy-wilson |title=Hollywood Walk of Fame – Nancy Wilson |date=October 1, 1990 |publisher=Hollywood Walk of Fame |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140218221927/http://www.walkoffame.com/nancy-wilson |archive-date=February 18, 2014 |access-date=March 16, 2014}}</ref> She received honorary degrees from [[Berklee College of Music]] in Boston, MA and [[Central State University]] in [[Wilberforce, Ohio]]. She is also a member of [[Delta Sigma Theta]] sorority. Wilson has a street named after her in her hometown of [[Chillicothe, Ohio]]. She co-founded the Nancy Wilson Foundation, which exposes inner-city children to the country.<ref name="nw-ency-bio" /> Wilson was the recipient of the [[National Endowment for the Arts]] (NEA), [[NEA Jazz Masters]] Fellowships award in 2004, the highest honors that the United States government bestows upon jazz musicians.<ref name="nw-nea-archive">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nea.gov/national/jazz/jazz04/index.html |title=2004 Jazz Master Fellowship Recipients |publisher=The National Endowment for the Arts |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080212031123/http://www.nea.gov/national/jazz/jazz04/index.html |archive-date=February 12, 2008 |access-date=March 16, 2014}}</ref> In 2005 she received the NAACP Image Awards for [[NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Jazz Artist|Best Recording Jazz Artist]]. She received the 2005 [[United Negro College Fund|UNCF]] Trumpet Award celebrating African-American achievement, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the [[NAACP]] in [[Chicago]], and [[Oprah Winfrey]]'s Legends Award.<ref name="nw-ic-rights">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nps.gov/features/malu/feat0002/wof/Nancy_Wilson.htm |title=International Civil Rights Walk of Fame: Nancy Wilson |publisher=National Park Service, nps.gov |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110204035438/http://www.nps.gov/features/malu/feat0002/wof/Nancy_Wilson.htm |archive-date=February 4, 2011 |access-date=April 19, 2014}}</ref>

In September 2005, Wilson was inducted into the [[International Civil Rights Walk of Fame]] at the [[Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site]]. Wilson was a major figure in [[Civil Rights Movement]]. Wilson noted that the ceremony gave her "one of the best ceremonies that I've ever had in my life."<ref name="nw-mlk-site">"11 'courageous souls' join rights walk of fame." ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)'', August 28, 2005: A4. ''NewsBank''</ref> Times.com, August 20, 2006: "It's been a long career for the polished Wilson, whose first albums appeared in the 1960s, and she faces that truth head-on in such numbers as 'These Golden Years' and 'I Don't Remember Ever Growing Up'. Shorter breathed these days, she can still summon a warm, rich sound and vividly tell a song's story. With a big band behind her in '[[Taking a Chance on Love]]', she also shows there's plenty of fire in her autumnal mood".<ref name="nw-time2006">{{Cite web |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1229100,00.html |title=6 Jazz Singers Worth A Listen |last=Christopher Porterfield |date=August 20, 2006 |publisher=Time Magazine Arts |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120104213843/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1229100,00.html |archive-date=January 4, 2012 |access-date=January 29, 2012}}</ref> At the [[Hollywood Bowl]], August 29, 2007, Wilson celebrated her 70th birthday with an all-star event hosted by [[Arsenio Hall]]. Ramsey Lewis and his trio performed "[[To Know Her Is To Love Her]]".

==Life and death==
Wilson and her first husband, drummer [[Kenny Dennis]], were married in 1960. They had a son Kenneth ("Kacy") Dennis Jr., but by 1970 they had divorced.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Nancy Wilson|journal=Contemporary Black Biography|volume=98|year=2012|quotation=''Gale In Context: Biography''|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1606005591/BIC?u=unlv_main&sid=BIC&xid=bc21857a}}</ref>

Wilson married Reverend Wiley Burton, a Presbyterian minister, on May 22, 1974. They married within a month of their first meeting.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pcsDAAAAMBAJ&q=Nancy+Wilson |title=Nancy Wilson Finds Peace In Marriage|magazine=JET Magazine|first=Robert A.|last=DeLeon|date= June 27, 1974|pages=54–60}}</ref> She gave birth to Samantha Burton in 1975, and the couple adopted Sheryl Burton in 1976.

As a result of her marriage, she abstained from performing in various venues such as [[supper clubs]]. For the following two decades, she successfully juggled her personal life and her career. Both of her parents died in November 1998; she called this year the most difficult of her life.

Wilson was hospitalized with anemia and potassium deficiency, and was on I.V. sustenance while undergoing a complete battery of tests, in August 2006. She was unable to attend the UNCF Evening of Stars Tribute to [[Aretha Franklin]] and had to cancel the engagement. All of her other engagements were on hold pending doctors' reports.<ref name="nw-osml">{{Cite web |url=http://oldschoolmusiclover.com/2008/04/17/jazz-singer-nancy-wilson-treated-for-a-collapsed-lung/ |title=Jazz singer Nancy Wilson treated for a collapsed lung |date=April 17, 2008 |website=Old School Music Lover |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140323202633/http://oldschoolmusiclover.com/2008/04/17/jazz-singer-nancy-wilson-treated-for-a-collapsed-lung/ |archive-date=March 23, 2014 |access-date=June 23, 2009}}</ref><ref name="nw-jet2008">{{Cite news |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-178794260.html |title=Nancy Wilson 'doing fine' recovering from lung collapse |date=May 5, 2008 |work=JET at highbeam.com|last=Waldron|first= Clarence |access-date=March 9, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611082414/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-178794260.html |archive-date=June 11, 2014 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

She was hospitalized for lung complications in March 2008, but recovered and was reported to be doing well.<ref name="nw-osml" /><ref name="nw-jet2008" />  Later that year, her husband, Wiley Burton, died after suffering from renal cancer.<ref name="nw-hpassing">{{Cite news |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-184429344.html |title=Nancy Wilson's husband dies |date=August 25, 2008 |work=JET at highbeam.com |access-date=March 9, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611082412/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-184429344.html |archive-date=June 11, 2014 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Wilson died after a long illness at her home in [[Pioneertown, California]] on December 13, 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.grammy.com/news/nancy-wilson-legendary-vocalist-and-jazz-icon-dies-81 |title=Nancy Wilson, Legendary Vocalist, Dies At 81 |date=December 14, 2018 |website=Grammy.com |access-date=January 2, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2018/12/13/nancy-wilson-grammy-winning-jazz-singer-dies-81/2308468002/|title = Nancy Wilson, Grammy-winning jazz singer, dies at 81| website=[[USA Today]]|first=Andrew|last=Dalton|author2=Hillel Italie |date=December 13, 2018}}</ref> She was 81 years old.<ref name="dies">{{Cite web |url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/nancy-wilson-grammy-winning-jazz-singer-dies-at-81 |title=Nancy Wilson, Grammy-winning jazz singer, dies at 81 |date=December 13, 2018 |website=Fox News |access-date=December 18, 2018}}</ref>

==Grammy history==
*Career wins: 3<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/nancy-wilson |title=Nancy Wilson, Artist |website=Recording Academy Grammy Awards |access-date=April 25, 2018}}</ref>
*Career nominations: 7 (Note: In a 2007 interview, Wilson stated that she had been nominated more than 20 times.<ref name="nw-gazatte">{{Cite web |url=http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/music/2007/03/01/Music-Preview-Another-side-of-Nancy-Wilson/stories/200703010465 |title='Music Preview: Another side of Nancy Wilson |date=March 1, 2007 |publisher=post-gazette.com |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140316145542/http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/music/2007/03/01/Music-Preview-Another-side-of-Nancy-Wilson/stories/200703010465 |archive-date=March 16, 2014 |access-date=August 19, 2007}}</ref> However, the Grammy Awards web site lists seven nominations for Wilson.)
{| class=wikitable
|-
| colspan="6" style="text-align:center;"| '''Nancy Wilson Grammy History (wins only)'''
|-
! Year
! Category
! Genre
! Title
! Label
! Result
|- align=center
| 2007
| Best Jazz Vocal Album
| Jazz
| ''[[Turned to Blue]]''
| MCG Jazz
| Winner
|- align=center
| 2005
| Best Jazz Vocal Album
| Jazz
| ''[[R.S.V.P. (Rare Songs, Very Personal)]]''
| MCG Jazz
| Winner
|- align=center
| 1965
| Best Rhythm & Blues Recording
| R&B
| "[[(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am|How Glad I Am]]"
| Capitol
| Winner
|}

== Discography ==
{{Main|Nancy Wilson discography}}
{{div col|colwidth=20em}}
* ''[[Like in Love]]'' (1959)
* ''[[Something Wonderful (Nancy Wilson album)|Something Wonderful]]'' (1960)
* ''[[The Swingin's Mutual!]]'' (with [[George Shearing]]) (1961)
* ''[[Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley]]'' (1962)
* ''[[Broadway – My Way]]'' (1963)
* ''[[Hollywood – My Way]]'' (1963)
* ''[[Yesterday's Love Songs/Today's Blues]]'' (1964)
* ''[[Today, Tomorrow, Forever (Nancy Wilson album)|Today, Tomorrow, Forever]]'' (1964)
* ''[[The Nancy Wilson Show!]]'' (1965)
* ''[[Tender Loving Care (Nancy Wilson album)|Tender Loving Care]]'' (1966)
* ''[[Lush Life (Nancy Wilson album)|Lush Life]]'' (1967)
* ''[[Welcome to My Love]]'' (1967)
* ''[[Just for Now (album)|Just for Now]]'' (1967)
* ''[[Hurt So Bad (Nancy Wilson album)|Hurt So Bad]]'' (1969)
* ''[[Can't Take My Eyes Off You (album)|Can't Take My Eyes Off You]]'' (1970)
* ''[[Now I'm a Woman]]'' (1970)
* ''[[But Beautiful (Nancy Wilson album)|But Beautiful]]'' (1971)
* ''[[I've Never Been to Me (album)|I've Never Been to Me]]'' (1977)
* ''[[Life, Love and Harmony]]'' (1979)
* ''[[A Lady with a Song]]'' (1989)
* ''[[With My Lover Beside Me]]'' (1991)
* ''[[Love, Nancy]]'' (1994)
* ''[[If I Had My Way (album)|If I Had My Way]]'' (1997)
* ''[[A Nancy Wilson Christmas]]'' (2001)
* ''[[R.S.V.P. (Rare Songs, Very Personal) ]]'' (2004)
* ''[[Turned to Blue]]'' (2006)
{{div col end}}

==Filmography==
===Film===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|1964
|''[[The Killers (1964 film)|The Killers]]''
|Singer 
|uncredited
|-
|1983
|''[[The Big Score (1983 film)|The Big Score]]''
|Angie Hooks
|
|-
|1993
|''[[The Meteor Man (film)|The Meteor Man]]''
|Mrs. Laws
|
|-
|2005
|''[[The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie]]''
|Herself
|
|-
|}

===Television===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|1965
|''[[Burke's Law (1963 TV series)|Burke's Law]]''
|Choo Choo
|Episode: "Who Killed Wimbledon Hastings?"
|-
|1966
|''[[I Spy (1965 TV series)|I Spy]]''
|Lori
|Episode: Lori
|-
|1966–1967
|''[[The Red Skelton Show]]''
| Singer/Store Detective/Dr. Cagney
|Episode: "The Bum Who Came in from the Cold" (1966)<br> Episode: "Clothes Make the Bum" (1967)
|-
|rowspan=2|1968
|''[[That's Life (1968 TV series)|That's Life]]''
| Lillian Moore
|Episode: "Bachelor Days"<br>Episode: "How We Met"
|-
|''[[The Carol Burnett Show]]''
|Herself
|Guest starring with [[Lucille Ball]] and [[Eddie Albert]]<br>Guest starring with [[Mickey Rooney]]
|-
|rowspan=3|1970
|''[[Room 222]]''
|Michelle Scott
|Episode: "Play It Loose"
|-
|''[[The Carol Burnett Show]]''
|Herself
|Guest starring with [[Nanette Fabray]]
|-
|''[[Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series)|Hawaii Five-O]]''
|Eadie Jordan
|Episode: "Trouble In Mind"
|-
|1972
|''[[O'Hara, U.S. Treasury]]''
|Poppy Grant
|Episode: "Operation: Rake-Off"
|-
|rowspan=2|1973
|''[[Search (American TV series)|Search]]''
|Sugar Francis
|Episode: "The Mattson Papers"
|-
|''[[The F.B.I. (TV series)|The F.B.I.]]''
|Darlene Clark
|Episode: "The Confession"
|-
|1974
|''[[Police Story (1973 TV series)|Police Story]]''
|Kelly Craig
|Episode: "World Full of Hurt"
|-
|rowspan=2|1989
|''[[It's a Living]]''
|Ivy Reynolds
|Episode: "The Ginger's Mother Show"
|-
|''[[The Cosby Show]]''
|Lorraine Kendall
|Episode:  "Grampy and NuNu Visit the Huxtables"
|-
|1993–1994
|''[[The Sinbad Show]]''
|Louise Bryan
|9 episodes
|-
|1995–1997
|''[[The Parent 'Hood]]'''
|Dr. Carolyn Plemmer/Elizabeth
|Episode: "The Paw That Rocks the Cradle" (1995)<br>Episode: "Mother and Law" (1997)
|-
|2001
|''[[The Parkers]]''
| Aunt Rita
|Episode: "Family Ties and Lies" 
|}

===DVD concert films===

* ''Nancy Wilson at Carnegie Hall'' (2001)<ref name="nw-carnegie">{{Cite web |url=http://www.view.com/nancy_wilson_at_carnegie_hall_dvd.aspx |title=Nancy Wilson at Carnegie Hall – video |publisher=view.com |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130328110321/http://www.view.com/nancy_wilson_at_carnegie_hall_dvd.aspx |archive-date=March 28, 2013 |access-date=January 29, 2012}}</ref>
* ''Great Women Singers of the 20th Century – Nancy Wilson'' (2005)<ref name="nw-imdb2005">{{Cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0930583/ |title=Great Women Singers of the 20th Century: Nancy Wilson – video |publisher=IMDb |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120404051551/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0930583/ |archive-date=April 4, 2012 |access-date=March 16, 2014}}</ref>

5. Ed Sullivan Show  appearance

==References==

{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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* {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208080535/http://missnancywilson.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=26 |date=February 8, 2012 |title=Nancy Wilson's website – Biography }}
* [{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p3160/charts-awards|pure_url=yes}} ''Billboard'' Chart History for Nancy Wilson]
* {{IMDb name|id=0933897|name=Nancy Wilson}}
* [http://arts.gov/honors/jazz/nancy-wilson NEA Jazz Masters: Nancy Wilson – Biography and Interview]
* [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/195340441/nancy-wilson Nancy Wilson] at [[Find a Grave]]

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