Heart’s Ann and Nancy Wilson Rock On: ‘Our Military Upbringing Helped Us in Many Ways’
The San Diego Union-Tribune | By George Varga
Published August 04, 2025 at 10:36am ET
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart have never served in any branch of the military. But the sisters credit growing up at Camp Pendleton — and on other military bases where their U.S. Marine officer father was stationed — as a key to their ability to still persevere today, 50 years after the release of their Seattle-bred band’s hard-rocking debut album, 1975’s “Dreamboat Annie.”
“Ann was born in San Diego. Our older sister, Lynne, was born in Taiwan. And I was born in San Francisco,” said Nancy Wilson, who will perform Aug. 13 with Ann and the current iteration of Heart at Pechanga Arena San Diego.
“We lived in Panama, Taiwan, North Carolina, Washington state, Camp Pendleton and in La Jolla, where our grandmother lived,” she continued. “We parlayed the experience of doing all that traveling into a sensibility that allowed Ann and me to strongly go forward with our touring life in the band. And because we were military brats who had traveled so much as kids, we were able to tour with Heart without any stress or issues of being homesick. We had each other as a family support system and our military upbringing helped us in many ways.”
Ann Wilson shares her sister’s sentiments.
“It made me adaptable. We were constantly the ‘new kids,’ always moving, always adjusting,” she said.
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