Wilson, Anne

Anne Wilson was born on June 19, 1950 in San Diego , California . Her father was a colonel in the US Navy , so she often moved as a child until her father resigned and settled with his family in the suburb of Seattle , Bellevue .

As a child, Anne suffered from stuttering, so she was very shy, and began to get involved in music. In the early 1970s, she joined the local rock band White Heart (from the English - “White Heart”), which soon changed its name to Hocus Pocus, and then in 1974 finally settled on Heart .

In 1974, Anne's younger sister, Nancy joined Heart and the group moved to Canada. In 1975, in Vancouver, they recorded their first album, Dreamboat Annie ; In the United States, he appeared on the shelves in 1976. In 1977, they released the Little Queen album, containing the band's first major hit, the song “Barracuda”. In 1978, Dog & Butterfly was released . In 1984, Ann Ann sang a duet with vocalist of Canadian group Loverboy Mike Reno song “Almost Paradise” for the film “ Free ”, which reached number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart ^[4] . in 1986, she released the solo single, “The Best Man in the World,” featured in the movie Golden Child , starring Eddie Murphy . The single reached 61 positions in the USA ^[5] . In 1988, she recorded a duet with Cheap Trick vocalist Robin Zader, the song "Surrender to Me" for the movie " Drunken Dawn ", with Mel Gibson , Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell in the lead roles. The single reached number six on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. ^[5]

In 1992, Anne participated in the recording of the mini-album Sap of Alice in Chains . She performed backing vocals on the songs “ Brother ”, “Am I Inside” and “Love Song”. In 1993, Alice in Chains lead singer Lane Staley sang three of them with her sisters Wilson on a cover version of Bob Dylan’s song “Ring Them Bells”, released on Heart Desire Walks On . On top of that, Alice in Chains bassist Mike Ainez and touring guitarist Scott Olson played on the 2003 Heart Alive in Seattle live album.

In the mid-1990s, Anne and Nancy founded Seattle's record label Bad Animals Studio in Seattle, named after Bad Animals's 1987 album Heart. The two of them also created the side project The Lovemongers , which included the classic Led Zeppelin song “ The Battle of Evermore ” on the soundtrack of the 1992 movie “The Loners ”, shot by Nancy's husband, Cameron Crowe. Later this song was released on a four-song mini-album. In 1997, the debut and so far the only album Lovemongers Whirlygig was released .

In 2006, Anne began recording her first solo disc, Hope & Glory , produced by Ben Mink. The album was released on September 11, 2007 via Rounder Records and consisted of cover versions of songs by various artists. Among the invited musicians at Hope & Glory were Nancy Wilson , Elton John , KD Lang , Alison Krauss , Sean Colvin , Rufus Wainwright and others. The songs “Little Problems, Little Lies”, “Isolation” and “ Immigrant Song ” were released as singles.

A cover version of " Immigrant Song " is available for listening on Ann's official MySpace page , and also ranked 9th among the most podcasting songs of 2007 according to PMC Top10 estimates. ^[6]

In 2001, Anne joined producer Alan Parsons for the Beatles tribute tour called A Walk Down Abbey Road .

In June 2007, she sang with the band Sed Nove and Ian Gillan at the Paris Music Festival.

In 2010, Anne and Nancy performed part of the song “ We Are the World 25 for Haiti, ” recorded by various pop artists to help Haitians who suffered after a major earthquake earlier this year. The song is a remake of the 1985 hit single “ We Are the World ”, written for a charity project whose proceeds in the amount of $ 61.800.000 were spent on the purchase and delivery of medicines, food, and medical and humanitarian assistance to the starving in Ethiopia .

Later, in 2010, the Wilson sisters became part of the Moms Who Rock campaign of the Pandora Radio recommendation system , available only in the United States.

Throughout the 70s, Anne Wilson dated Michael Fisher, the band’s manager, while her younger sister, Nancy, met lead guitarist Roger Fisher , Michael’s younger brother. In 1979, the two couples broke up, Anne said that Michael began dating another woman. The song “Magic Man” was written about Michael and contained autobiographical lyrics about the beginning of their romance. ^[7]

In 1991, Ann adopted the daughter of Marie, and in 1998 the son of Dustin.

Since April 25, 2015, Ann has been married to Dean Wetter ^[8] . They did not meet for long in the 1980s and converged again years later.

When Anne was a child, she suffered from obesity, as a result of which she was ridiculed by other children. In the 1970s, she firmly decided to lose weight and achieved a result. However, after the Heart reunion as an AOP group, Ann again gained significant weight. Fearing that this could spoil the image of the group, the record company and members of the group began to force it to lose weight. In the video clips, camera angles and clothes were chosen in such a way as to visually reduce her volume, as well as cameras focused more on her sister Nancy. Ann has repeatedly stated that she began to suffer from panic attacks caused by stress from negative reviews and focusing on her overweight. ^[9] In January 2002, she underwent a surgical operation known as bandaging the stomach ^[10] after a “lifelong struggle” with her weight.

• Official Heart site
• Anne Wilson's official MySpace page
• Ann Wilson on the Internet Movie Database