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February 20, 1937 – Song stylist Nancy Wilson is born in Chillicothe. Her father, Olden, who worked in a steel foundry, loved jazz and she and he would listen to Billy Eckstein, Nat King Cole and Lionel Hampton’s band. Wilson won a singing contest as a student at West High School in Columbus and never looked back. By 1989 she had recorded 52 albums, starred in 17 TV shows and played Carnegie Hall.
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