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When the NPR radio network was looking for an articulate voice with both name value and jazz credibility to host their series, "Jazz Profiles," Nancy Wilson was the obvious choice. Not only does she know the music, but she knows the artists personally.
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Nancy Wilson received the NAACP Image Award - Hall of Fame Award in 1998, and was inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1999. Nancy has received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1991, at 6541 Hollywood Blvd.[15] Received honorary degrees from the Berklee School of Music and Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio. She is ... a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated. Wilson has a street named after her in her hometown of Chillicothe, Ohio.
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When Nancy Wilson arrived in New York City in 1959, she knew what she wanted: to launch a national singing career with John Levy as her manager and Capitol as her record label. She got what she wanted and the rest, as they say, is history. To this day, John Levy remains her manager, and while she retired from touring at the end of 2004, she continues to play select concert engagements, to record, and National Public Radio listeners hear her hosting repeated broadcasts of her Jazz Profiles series.
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Nancy Wilson was born February 20, 1937. Nancy Wilson is an American singer whose sixty-plus albums have blended jazz and pop music. She currently hosts a jazz radio program on NPR, Jazz Profiles.
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World-famous jazz chanteuse (she prefers the term song stylist) Nancy Wilson takes the stage of America's most famous concert venue, Carnegie Hall, offering up an unforgettable performance featuring her most memorable hits. The Grammy and Emmy award winner captivates the audience in a show that underscores the singer's vocal refinement, elegance and emotional sincerity -- all delivered with dazzling panache.
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Wilson has admitted that she has absolutely no formal voice training. Her talent was a "gift" that she simply utilized from the age of four. Very early she decided she wanted to become a professional singer. She sang in the local church choir and listened avidly to a variety of postwar black American music, including the albums of Billy Eckstine, LaVern Baker, and Nat King Cole. When her family moved to Columbus during her teens, she became host of her own radio show, Skyline Melody, in which she would perform phoned-in requests. Even then her repertoire ranged widely across the pop, jazz, ballad, and torch song categories.
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