Pictures of Ann & Nancy arriving at Henson Studios

Ann arriving for the recording of "We are the world" for Haiti

Nancy arriving for the recording of "We are the world" for Haiti

Heart joins ´We are the world´remake for Haiti!

A&N at the recording!

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LOS ANGELES — The energy was electric Monday night (February 1) at Henson Studios as more than 80 of music’s biggest stars gathered for a charity remake of “We Are the World” in support of Haitian earthquake relief.

“I feel like a kid in a candy store,” Wyclef Jean said, speaking to the press about the idea of remaking such an iconic song, which is getting production help from RedOne and Will.I.Am. “What’s bigger than a contribution is that you lend your voice,” the Haitian native said earlier in the day to his peers while trying to inspire them during the session, which began around 3 p.m. and was expected to last well into the night.

Kanye, wearing a red jacket with sparkling gold crisscross accents, stood center in the front row, between Wyclef and Hudson.

Among the soloists whose sessions were screened for journalists at press time were Bieber, Dion and Groban. Weezy also came out and humbly noted that he recorded the solo originally sung by Bob Dylan.

The inspirational lyrics were laid down over a track that had a more modern Southern hip-hop bounce to it. The recording session took place almost 25 years to the day since the original song for African famine relief was recorded.

“The experience was out of this world,” said Bieber, who sang Lionel Richie’s original opening line. The video for the song, which is being shot in 3-D, will debut February 12. (TDHS: “We Are the World — 25 for Haiti” will premiere this month during coverage of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics on NBC, according to a release from promoter AEG Live.)

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Still from TMZ.com: Ann on the left in the back

Ann Wilson on the left

Ann & Nancy (thanx to Timstar78 for these pictures from Wire)

Ann & Nancy

Ann & Nancy

Ann & Nancy recording

The artists on ´We are the world`

USATODAY: Despite a total cast turnover, Nancy Wilson of Heart saw a strong parallel to the 1985 lineup. ”I just remember thinking, ‘What an odd collection of unlikely people that somehow managed to be cool together anyway,’ ” she said. “That’s how it felt tonight.” USATODAY: “Quincy Jones was just beaming like the sun,” Heart’s Nancy Wilson said, “and the room got hotter.”

Beat goes on for Heart

Nancy

Arizona Daily Star, January 28th 2010

Nancy Wilson is understandably excited these days.

She and big sister Ann Wilson are catching a gusty second wind with their band, Heart. They are finishing a new album – their first studio effort in six years – and their fan base is getting larger and younger.

“There’s so much excitement right now,” Nancy, 55, said during a phone call from home in Los Angeles last week. “We’re about to do a cover shoot for the new album. The new album is getting really close. . . . It’s appearing in front of our eyes.”

Set to be released in July, the album follows 2004’s “Jupiter’s Darling.” It’s the fruit of years of touring with this lineup of musicians, which Nancy Wilson calls strong and exciting.

Wilson won’t disclose the album’s name – there’s a fan club contest centered on it - and she can’t really define it beyond saying it’s not a rehash of their signature 1970s and ’80s driving rock and monster ballads.

“It’s not just big rock, big metal or electronic sound. It’s really human,” she says. “But it also rocks harder because of that, because it’s more personal. There’s a lot of electric and a lot of acoustic and big drums and small moments. We’re kind of a variety show in that way. But it’s real cohesive.

“So see it’s hard to describe: ‘It’s really cohesive, but it’s really dynamic, but it’s really hard, but it’s really soft.’ I guess you have to hear it.”

Unfortunately, the band isn’t ready to play the new material live, so Tucson won’t hear any of it on Sunday, when Heart will play at the Desert Diamond Casino to make up for a canceled October date. The band had to bail out when most of its members came down with the flu.

“That was the H1N1 – the biggie,” she says. “We’ve played a lot of times when we were really sick, but that was a little bigger than we could handle.”

The new album is the latest chapter in the four-decade story of the trailblazing rockers. The sisters helped pave the way for other female rockers with a string of hits such as “Magic Man,” “What About Love,” “These Dreams,” “Straight On,” “Barracuda” and “The Woman in Me.”

In their 1970s and ’80s heyday, they sold out arenas worldwide on the strength of critically acclaimed albums, starting with their 1976 debut, “Dreamboat Annie.”

In the mid-1990s, the sisters took a break to raise families – both have two children – and to pursue other projects.

Ann, 59, released a solo album, “Hope & Glory,” in 2007.

Nancy worked on the soundtracks for several movies of her husband, Cameron Crowe, including “Almost Famous,” “Jerry Maguire” and “Vanilla Sky.”

The two returned to touring in 2002, reuniting with longtime fans and introducing themselves to new audiences.

“In the last three or four years, more and more very young kids are showing up, and they are just muscling their way to the front row. It’s been fantastic,” Nancy Wilson says, adding that the band’s resurgence is courtesy of the video game “Guitar Hero,” TV’s “American Idol” and the country’s fascination with the 1980s. “The kids know the music. They know our songs.”

Even Wilson’s twin sons, who turned 10 last Saturday, are fans. On the road with mom, “they just get their feathers fluffed up. ‘Oh, mom. You rock, mom!’

“It’s just so great to be ‘cool,’ at least for a while – until the morning of their 13th birthday,” she jokes.

Ask her what is left to do in a career studded with so many milestones and merit, and Wilson becomes even more philosophical.

“Everything’s left to do,” she says, sounding every bit a rocker on the rise.

The Wilson Sisters of Heart: From Rock to Lullabies

Lullabies

A snippet from ParentDish: Ann Wilson: It’s hard. My 18-year-old girl doesn’t want to come out on the road anymore. She’s old enough to take care of herself while I’m gone. But my [11-year-old] son is too young to be left here without me. They’ve been coming out on the road since they were babies. My son was out when he was four weeks old. He wants to come out, he loves it. More from this interview with Ann & Nancy

A rock n’ roll night to remember

Roger Fisher

Examiner.com: It was a night to celebrate friendship, community, music and life. On a Sunday autumn night, in front of a capacity crowd in a local club in Woodville, Washington, music legends Alan White, the longtime drummer of “Yes” and 3 former members of Seattle’s own“Heart”, along with an army of some of the most talented local musicians in the region, came together and did the thing they love for wonderful cause, music education.

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Of course, one of the biggest highlights of the evening was the highly anticipated “Heart Reunion” or shall we say, partial reunion. Founding members, Roger Fisher, Steve Fossen and Mike Derosier rocked Heart classics: “Magic Man”, “Barracuda” and “Crazy on You” . Vocalist Somar Macek, formally of the defunct Heart tribute band “Straight On”, handled Ann Wilson’s vocal parts with professional aplomb, brilliantly channeling Wilson’s passion, style and soul throughout the various Heart numbers.

Seeing these Heart classics played by 3 of the original members of the seminal group, had to whet the appetites of the many Heart fans in attendance. Hopefully, one day the powers that be will be able to reach some type of accord so that Heart fans can be treated to a real reunion with all of the original members. This is truly what Heart fans deserve and it would be good business. Heck, If “The Eagles”can do it and Van Halen can work things out with “Diamond Dave”, certainly ”the suits” can get their act together and give Heart fans what they have been yearning for. Here is hoping that the boys and fans don’t have to wait for the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame to see the pieces of Heart together again.

More from this article on Examiner.com

Still Crazy on You: A Conversation with Nancy Wilson of Heart

Nancy

You’re on tour right now. Where are you calling from?

Well, right now I’m in Albany, NY. We’re on tour right now in between recording sessions. So we’ve been really busy putting together the songs for the new album.

A new Heart album?

We’re making a new album and we’re working with producer Ben Mink.

K.D. Lang’s guy?

Yeah! He also did Ann [Wilson]’s last solo album, Hope & Glory. We’re kind of busy right now doing what we love to do.

More from the The Portland  Mercury

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Heart delivering high energy to state fair

Laughing up to the sky

From the Herald Review.

This year, the Wilson sisters celebrated the 30th anniversary of the release of the hit album “Dog and Butterfly,” commemorating it by writing a children’s book that tells the song’s story.

“The way the song is written, it’s kind of like a little tale that you tell a child,” Wilson said.

Along with the book comes a free download of an updated version of the song. “It’s really a nice new take on that song with elements of the opera ‘Madame Butterfly’ woven into it,” Wilson said.

Heart is gearing up to release a new album in 2010, and they’re working on getting a new song into their set list. Once they have time to practice, audiences can expect to hear the song in concert, with the album expected to be out sometime in early 2010.

Wilson said she is excited about the album because of its natural sound.

“It’s not layers of constructed music,” she said. “It’s more like live music, so you get the feel of a human conversation.”

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