1) Nancy Sue Wilson - … Read Full Bio ↴There is more than one artist with this name:
1) Nancy Sue Wilson - jazz diva best known for her 60s standards recordings.
2) Nancy Lamoureaux Wilson - singer, songwriter, and guitarist, and member of the group Heart.
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1) Nancy Sue Wilson (born February 20, 1937, in Chillicothe, OH, United States – December 13, 2018, in Pioneertown, CA, United States) was a jazz diva famous for recording American standards in the 60s.
She was among contemporary music's most stylish and sultry vocalists; while often crossing over into the pop and R&B markets -- and even hosting her own television variety program -- she remained best known as a jazz performer, renowned for her work alongside figures including Cannonball Adderley and George Shearing. Wilson first attracted notice performing the club circuit in nearby Columbus; she quickly earned a growing reputation among jazz players and fans, and she was recording regularly by the late '50s, eventually signing to Capitol and issuing LPs including 1959's Like in Love and Nancy Wilson with Billy May's Orchestra. Her dates with Shearing, including 1960's The Swingin's Mutual, solidified her standing as a talent on the rise, and her subsequent work with Adderley -- arguably her finest recordings -- further cemented her growing fame and reputation.
In the years to follow, however, Wilson often moved away from jazz, much to the chagrin of purists; she made numerous albums, many of them properly categorized as pop and R&B outings, and toured extensively, appearing with everyone from Nat King Cole and Sarah Vaughan to Ruth Brown and LaVern Baker. She even hosted her own Emmy-winning variety series for NBC, The Nancy Wilson Show, and was a frequent guest performer on other programs; hits of the period included "Tell Me the Truth," "How Glad I Am," "Peace of Mind," and "Now, I'm a Woman." Regardless of how far afield she traveled, Wilson always maintained her connections to the jazz world, and in the 1980s, she returned to the music with a vengeance, working closely with performers including Hank Jones, Art Farmer, Ramsey Lewis, and Benny Golson. By the 1990s, she was a favorite among the "new adult contemporary" market, her style ideally suited to the format's penchant for lush, romantic ballads; she also hosted the Jazz Profiles series on National Public Radio.
In the early 2000s, Wilson recorded two albums with Ramsey Lewis for Narada (2002's Meant to Be and 2003's Simple Pleasures). Her 2004 album R.S.V.P. (Rare Songs, Very Personal) was a blend of straight-ahead jazz and ballads, similar to her next record, 2006's Turned to Blue, which, like R.S.V.P., used a different instrumentalist for each track. In 2005, Capitol released a three-part series to pay tribute to Wilson's contributions to music in the '50s and '60s: Guess Who I Saw Today: Nancy Wilson Sings Songs of Lost Love, Save Your Love for Me: Nancy Wilson Sings the Great Blues Ballads, and The Great American Songbook.
Wilson died from a long-illness on December 13, 2018 at her home in Pioneertown, California at the age of 81.
2) Nancy Lamoureux Wilson (born March 16, 1954, San Francisco, CA, United States), more popularly known as Nancy Wilson, is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter. Along with her older sister Ann Wilson, she is part of the Seattle/Vancouver rock band Heart. She is married to film director and screenwriter Cameron Crowe and has composed and performed music for most of Crowe's movies, including Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous, Vanilla Sky, and Elizabethtown.
While Ann is the lead singer on most of the Heart recordings, Nancy is the lead vocalist on Treat Me Well, These Dreams, Stranded, There's the Girl and Will You Be There (In The Morning), and frequently performs background vocals. She is also the band's rhythm and lead guitarist. In 1999, she released a live solo album, Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop.
Solo albums
1999 - Live At McCabes Guitar Shop
2005 - Elizabethtown
2009 - Baby Guitars
2016 - Undercover Guitar (with Julie Bergman)
2021 - You and Me
For Once In My Life
Nancy Wilson Lyrics
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Someone I’ve needed so long
For once unafraid I can go where life leads me and somehow I know I’ll be strong
For once I can touch what my heart used to dream of
Long before I knew
Someone warm like you
Who have my dreams come true
For once in my life I won't let sorrow hurt me
Not like it's hurt me before
For once I have someone I know won't desert me
I’m not alone anymore
For once I can say
This is mine you can’t take it
As long as I know I have love I can make it
For once in my life I have someone who needs me
For once I can say
This is mine you can’t take it
As long as I know I have love we can make it
For once in my life I have someone who needs me
The lyrics of Nancy Wilson's For Once In My Life speaks of finally experiencing what it means to have someone who truly loves and needs you. It is a song about finding strength in the love of another person and letting go of the fear and pain that once haunted you. The lyrics exude both vulnerability and optimism, as the singer expresses her newfound confidence that she can face whatever the future holds as long as she has this person beside her.
The first verse starts with an affirmation of the singer's relationship with someone who needs her just as much as she needs them: "For once in my life I have someone who needs me, Someone I’ve needed so long". She reflects on how this person's warmth and affection have finally allowed her to touch the dreams she's always had in her heart and make them a reality: "For once I can touch what my heart used to dream of, Long before I knew Someone warm like you Who have my dreams come true".
The second verse builds on this newfound confidence, as the singer proclaims that she will no longer let sorrow and pain control her life. Instead, she is certain that her partner will never leave her alone: "For once in my life I won't let sorrow hurt me, Not like it's hurt me before, For once I have someone I know won't desert me, I’m not alone anymore". The refrain stating "This is mine, you can’t take it" implies the depth of commitment they have towards each other and that they will fight for that love no matter what. The bridge sums up the message of the song: "As long as I know I have love I can make it, For once in my life I have someone who needs me".
Line by Line Meaning
For once in my life I have someone who needs me
I finally have someone who genuinely cares for me and depends on me, which is a new experience for me.
Someone I’ve needed so long
I have been longing for this kind of companionship and support for a significant amount of time.
For once unafraid I can go where life leads me and somehow I know I’ll be strong
I am no longer afraid to face uncertainties in life because having this person by my side gives me the strength to face any challenge.
For once I can touch what my heart used to dream of, Long before I knew Someone warm like you, Who have my dreams come true
I am now living the dreams of my heart that I thought were impossible to achieve before meeting this person, who has made them a reality.
For once in my life I won't let sorrow hurt me, Not like it's hurt me before
I will not let past sorrows and heartbreaks bring me down anymore as I now have someone to lean on and support me emotionally.
For once I have someone I know won't desert me, I’m not alone anymore
I am no longer alone in life as I have someone who is committed to staying with me through thick and thin, and who won't abandon me.
For once I can say This is mine you can’t take it, As long as I know I have love I can make it, For once in my life I have someone who needs me
I finally own something valuable in my life that no one can take away from me, which is the love and support of this special person.
For once I can say This is mine you can’t take it, As long as I know I have love we can make it, For once in my life I have someone who needs me
Together, we possess an undeniably strong love that will help us conquer any obstacle, and I have found someone who wants and needs me as much as I need them.
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Ronald N Miller, Orland Murden
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