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
Passion Flower
Nancy Wilson Lyrics
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Sent from the blue above,
You're a flower of love.
Passion flower,
Free as a star in flight,
Laughing through the night.
Your lips keep taunting me,
Yet haunting me
Each day!
Stay with me,
My passion flower,
You are all I'm dreaming of,
Passion flower of love!
Passion flower of love!
In Nancy Wilson's song "Passion Flower," the lyrics beautifully capture the essence of a passionate and elusive love. The singer compares their love interest to a captivating flower sent from above. The passion flower symbolizes the intensity and beauty of their love. The lyrics suggest that this love interest is free, like a star in flight, and filled with joy and laughter throughout the night.
However, there is a sense of a bittersweet longing expressed through the lines: "Your lips keep taunting me, not wanting me, yet haunting me each day." It seems that the singer is torn between the desire to be with this person and the heartache of their unattainability. Despite the mixed emotions, the singer still implores the passion flower to stay with them since it represents everything they dream of when it comes to love.
Overall, "Passion Flower" explores the complexities of desire, yearning, and the exhilaration that comes with being in the presence of a powerful and enchanting love.
Line by Line Meaning
Passion flower,
You, a symbol of intense desire and emotion,
Sent from the blue above,
You were bestowed upon this world from the mysterious depths of the heavens,
You're a flower of love.
You represent the essence of affection and romance.
Passion flower,
Oh, passionate blossom,
Free as a star in flight,
Unfettered and liberated like a celestial body soaring through the cosmos,
Laughing through the night.
Exuberantly reveling in joy and mirth during the hours of darkness.
Your lips keep taunting me,
Your enticing mouth continuously teases and tantalizes me,
Not wanting me,
Showing no desire for my presence,
Yet haunting me
Though absent, your lingering presence continues to haunt my thoughts
Each day!
Day after day, it persists.
Stay with me,
Remain by my side,
My passion flower,
Beloved symbol of my intense affection,
You are all I'm dreaming of,
You are the sole subject of my reveries and fantasies,
Passion flower of love!
You, my love, are the embodiment of passion and devotion!
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, RESERVOIR MEDIA MANAGEMENT INC
Written by: BILLY STRAYHORN, MILTON RASKIN
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