Ann Wilson

American Musician

About Ann Wilson

Ann Dustin Wilson (born June 19, 1950) is an American musician best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the rock band Heart.

Wilson has been a member of Heart since the early 1970s; her younger sister, Nancy Wilson, is also a member of the band. The first hard rock band fronted by women, Heart released numerous albums throughout the late 1970s and 1980s; the albums Dreamboat Annie (1975), and Little Queen (1977) generated chart singles such as “Magic Man”, “Crazy on You”, and “Barracuda”. Heart has sold over 35 million records worldwide and has placed top 10 albums on the Billboard 200 in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2010s.Ann Wilson was ranked no. 78 in Hit Parader’s 2006 list of “Greatest Heavy Metal Vocalists of All Time”. In 2013, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Heart. Wilson possesses a lyric soprano vocal range. She is known for her operatic abilities and banshee screams.

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At that time a lot of young men didn’t want to go to the war and kill. This guy that I fell in love with was one of those so he escaped to Canada and I followed him.

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Back when we were first making records, you didn’t just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.

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It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the ’70s. There wasn’t a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the ’70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.

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You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair… If you’re a woman it’s even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s.

Ann Wilson

You noticed from last night, we only did two from the 80s. And our set’s two hours long.

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At that time a lot of young men didn’t want to go to the war and kill. This guy that I fell in love with was one of those so he escaped to Canada and I followed him.

Back when we were first making records, you didn’t just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.

Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band.

Heart has always been a rock band. It’s always been hard-rock.

I don’t think we ever clash but we do become frosty.

I don’t think we will use the 80s glossy sound again.

I don’t think we’ll ever use the same sound techniques.

I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.

I like the way remixes sound. Some of them are really creative.

I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now.

I think the theme of the album probably was just that it was our first record.

I’m a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep.

It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the ’70s. There wasn’t a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the ’70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.

It’s a really bad idea to be in a band and get involved with each other.

I’ve got two sisters and they’re both married and they’re both much more settled into the way things are.

Led Zeppelin, you can’t find a better band to pay homage to.

No way, because there’s love relationships, there’s sex relationships and then there’s the band.

People can’t just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.

We’re not like Alice In Chains where somebody dies and the band breaks up.

You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair… If you’re a woman it’s even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s.

You noticed from last night, we only did two from the 80s. And our set’s two hours long.