Ann Dustin Wilson was born June 19, 1950, she is an American musician, best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the band Heart. founded with her sister, Heart’s staple guitarist, also a singer-songwriter, Nancy Wilson. Renowned as the hardest-rocking female-led classic hard rock band of the 1970’s, Heart’s 80’s incarnation yielded Top 40 commercial success of the big-haired pop variety.

Ann was listed as one of the “Top Heavy Metal Vocalists of All Time” by Hit Parader magazine in 2006. She has been described as having a dramatic soprano vocal range, but more in a classic-rock vein; her Robert Plant inspired vocals wail heavy on resonant signature songs such as “Barracuda” and “Crazy on You”.