Nancy Wilson (Singer) Wiki, Bio, Dead or Alive and Net Worth
Date: 23 Oct, 2015 Report This
Quick Information
Date of Birth/Birthday | February 20, 1937 |
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Age | 87 Years 9 Month(s) |
Nationality | American |
Profession/Occupation | Jazz Singer |
Husband/Spouse | Reverend Wiley Burton (ex-husband), Kenny Dennis (ex-husband) |
Married | Not Yet |
Divorced | Yes |
Boyfriend/Dating | Not Yet |
Gay/Lesbian | No |
Ethnicity | Black |
Net Worth | $12 Million Dollars (In 2014) |
Height/Tall | 5' 11" (1.79 m) |
Weight | N/A |
Children/Kids | Kenneth (Kacy) Dennis, Jr.(son), Sheryl Burton(daughter), Samantha Burton(daughter) |
Body Measurements | N/A |
Nancy Wilson is an American Singer who performed in more than five genres. She was born on February 20, 1937, in Chillicothe, Ohio, the United States as the youngest daughter of the Wilson family.
The American Music Industry has given her numerous names throughout her career. She has released more than 70 albums in her career and songs from those albums have been on the top chart list of the American music stations.
She has been named as "Sweet Nancy," "The Baby," "Fancy Miss Nancy" and "The Girl With the Honey-Coated Voice" during her career. Her music and songs are of jazz, capitol, soul and blue genres.
She got inspired by the singer like Billy Eckstine, Nat Cole and Jimmy Scott during her childhood. Her father used to, but the recording from the market and used to play before they used to sleep.
She started to sing in the church and other family occasions. At the age of four, she told her parents, teacher, and friends about her desire towards music and wanted to peruse it.
In her career, she won 3 Grammy Awards and was nominated in more than 20 categories during her career.
In the year 1960 Wilson married her boyfriend, Kenny Dennis in the Unites States. She has two sons from this relationship before her divorce with him. There were many rumors about her dating with a political figure.
She again married in the year 1973 with Reverend Wiley Burton. Her husband was a Presbyterian Minister and was from the good family background.
The couple had one child in the year 1975 and adopted another in the year 1976. Nancy belonged to the African- American ethnicity.
She stopped her performances for more than one decade for the family and then shifted to California to raise her children.
Nancy stands tall with her decent height of 5 feet 11 inch with her attractive body measurements. Her well-toned legs make her figure more attractive.
During her career, she was one of the most beautiful African-American Singer as quoted by many Medias. Her past pictures reveal about her beauty and her hourglass shaped figure.
Her last album was "turned to Blue" released in the year 2006. This was the album, which gave her third Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Vocal Album.
At the last stage of her career, she developed herself as a jazz singer and inspired many youngsters’s to follow jazz music and songs.
In the year 2014, her net worth was estimated $12 million dollars. Nancy is currently 80 years of age and is concerned about her health issues. She has diagnosed with anemia and potassium deficiency in the year 2006.
In the year 2008, her husband Wiley was announced dead in the hospital, the main reason of his death was renal cancer. She was also diagnosed with a heart and lungs complications in the same year.
She is currently under the care of the government and is going well. After she was discharged from hospital, she twitted her fans claiming she is still alive and healthy.
She is not an active user of Instagram; it seems like her health issues are the main reasons for it. Her biography has been published in numerous sites and wiki.
We wish Nancy to improve her health condition and are looking forward to listening new songs of her. We can easily find her on Twitter @nancy.wilson.