Anna Wilson

Anna Wilson is a critically acclaimed recording artist and songwriter whose music and career accolades have blurred lines and been chronicled in a number of genres from Americana, singer/songwriter, pop, country, and jazz. In fact, Jazz Times states, "Anna Wilson has a voice like crème de cocoa, and an inner metronome that swigs wildly form age to age.” Her numerous albums have been released to rave reviews and she has been hailed as the queen of the country-jazz duet with her critically acclaimed "Countrypolitan Duets" project. She has recorded and performed with numerous Grammy award-winning and legendary artists from Keith Urban to Lady Antebellum, Kenny Rogers, Larry Carlton, Ray Price, Connie Smith and more and she is an award-winning ASCAP songwriter, whose works appear on over 7 million RIAA certified records, for artists from Lady Antebellum, Reba McEntire, Billy Ray Cyrus, Chuck Wicks and others.
Her latest undertaking is an Americana duo "Troubadour 77", that she formed with husband and hit songwriter Monty Powell. If you think it’s an odd departure away from her many jazz records and country songwriting accolades, not really. Wilson indicates that first and foremost she is a songwriter and that her songs have always been the driving force in everything she does. “Even on my past vocal jazz projects, it was always all about the original jazz songs I wrote, way more than the standards of the genre. T77, as they sometimes call themselves, is representative of the music I have always wanted to make. It comes from a true singer-songwriter mindset, inspired by my heroes and musical influences of the California Laurel Canyon era in the early 1970s.”
After a twenty-five year recording career and six studio albums, this dynamic and diverse songbird has even more things to sing about. She recently co-wrote and co-stars in a two-person songwriter musical with songwriter/husband Monty Powell called “Songstars” that just completed a residency run in Nashville at the historic Woolworth Theatre. “The best way I know how to describe it is the format of "Springsteen on Broadway" meets the hit movie Once, meets The Bluebird Cafe on steroids!” It’s a scripted show that tells her and Powell’s personal story of chasing dreams and finding love amid the backdrop of their separate and combined Nashville pilgrimages to songwriting success.
When it comes to giving back, Wilson is all hands on deck, as community outreach is another important aspect of Anna’s career. She continually tries to find ways to marry her music with charities that she is passionate about. She is widely known for her Habitat for Humanity International theme song “A House, A Home” that garnered worldwide attention when it appeared in the charity’s public service announcements and received over $5 million in free advertising worldwide. She also penned and Olympic inspired song called “Spirit” whose royalties benefited Women’s Ski Jumping USA when they made their debut in Sochi, Russia. The proceeds were given directly to the organization to help support and run a successful and sustainable team, grow participation, produce the best women ski jumpers in the world and advocate for gender equality in sport.
Born and raised in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, and a graduate of Loyola University in Maryland, Anna Wilson splits her time between Nashville, the mountains of Utah and the Florida Keys where she enjoys golf, fly-fishing, skiing, wine, performing live and recording innovative album projects that have appeal to wide audiences. Her music is engaging and effortless as she weaves her soulful, vulnerable and richly textured voice through everything she does.