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Ann Wilson, lead singer in rock band Heart, to perform in Warren

Ann Wilson is pictured during a 2023 performance at Farm Aid in Indiana. AP file photo

One of the most recognizable voices in rock music will perform at the Struthers Library Theatre in September.

Ann Wilson, the voice behind Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Heart as well as Tripsitter, will perform at 8 p.m. Sept. 30 in Warren. The concert is sponsored by Whirley Drinkworks. Tickets for Struthers members go on sale at 10 a.m. today and are available to the public at 10 a.m. Friday.

Ann Wilson, meanwhile, was ranked no. 78 in Hit Parader’s 2006 list of “Greatest Rock Vocalists of All Time”. She’s released several solo albums during slow periods for Heart in addition to solo tours.

Ann Wilson has been a member of Heart since the early 1970s along with her younger sister, Nancy. The Wilson sisters were one of the first hard rock bands to be led by women. Heart released some of the most noteworthy albums of the 1970s and 1980s. Early albums like Dreamboat Annie and Little Queen generated the hits “Magic Man”, “Crazy on You” and “Barracuda”. In 1986, “These Dreams” rose to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Heart has been nominated for four Grammy Awards and has sold over 50 million records worldwide, including approximately 22.5 million albums in the United States. Ann Wilson also contributed hit songs “Almost Paradise,” “Best Man in the World” and “Surrender to Me” on soundtracks from the films Footloose, The Golden Child and Tequila Sunrise.

The Wilson sisters performed at the Kennedy Center tribute to Led Zeppelin on December 2, 2012. Present at the event were the three living members of Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones. The Wilsons performed “Stairway To Heaven”, backed by an orchestra and choir, and featuring drummer Jason Bonham, son of the late Led Zeppelin drummer, John Bonham. Video of the performance has gone viral in the years since due to Plant’s reaction to Wilson’s vocal performance. Wilson and Alice in Chains’ guitarist and vocalist Jerry Cantrell paid tribute to their late friend, Chris Cornell, with a rendition of Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” during the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony on April 14, 2018. In March, Wilson paid tribute to country music legend Tammy Wynette with a performance at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium.

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