Alphonso Williams - Knock on Wood

 Alphonso Williams (Detroit, 20 de julio de 1962 - Eppendorf, Hamburgo, 12 de octubre de 2019) fue un cantante de soul estadounidense. En 2017 fue el ganador de la temporada 14 del programa de casting de RTL Deutschland sucht den Superstar. Durante su participación en DSDS, se le ocurrió el nombre artístico Mr. Bling Bling, que luego continuó usando.

Williams era el menor de doce hijos. Su padre, Archie Williams, era un ministro bautista. Ya desde niño, Alphonso pasaba gran parte de su tiempo libre en la iglesia de su padre, donde entró en contacto con la música a temprana edad. Cantó en el coro de gospel con sus hermanos. Después de graduarse de la escuela secundaria, comenzó una carrera de GI en el Ejército de los EE. UU. y fue destinado a Lucius D. Clay Barracks en Garlstedt, cerca de Bremen, en 1980. Su mandato terminó en 1983. Estaba casado y era padre de dos hijos.

Con su hijo Raphael, nacido en Oldenburg en 1987, fundó el dúo "Father & Son". La compañía discográfica Jay Kay Records lanzó la canción Footsteps in My Heart en 2005 con el dúo. En 2008 participaron en Das Supertalent. A partir de 2014, los dos tomaron caminos separados musicalmente. En 2012, Alphonso Williams participó en el programa de talentos de imitadores My Name Is, donde presentó la canción Rock Your Baby de George McCrae.

En 2017, Williams pudo convencer al jurado en el casting de la temporada 14 de Deutschland sucht den Superstar con Let's Get it On de Marvin Gaye. Aunque recibió buenas críticas del jurado en el retiro en Dubai, RTL anunció su salida un día antes de los shows en vivo. Cuando su salida del primer programa de lema se quedó sin razón, se desarrolló una tormenta de mierda en las redes sociales, lo que llevó a RTL a emitir un comodín. Williams ganó la votación en línea con el 91 por ciento de los votos. El 5 de mayo de 2017 lanzó su canción final de American Idol What Becomes of the Broken Hearted, una versión de la canción de Jimmy Ruffin. El 6 de mayo de 2017, los espectadores lo votaron como el ganador del programa con el 40,54% de las llamadas. El premio en metálico fue de 500.000 euros. Además, recibió un contrato discográfico con Universal Music.

A los 54 años, Alphonso Williams era el ganador de mayor edad del Deutschland sucht den Superstar. Con la decimoquinta temporada al año siguiente, el límite de edad superior para los candidatos se redujo a 30 años.

Prydein - Centerfold

 Prydein is an American Celtic rock group formed in 1999. They are notable for their use of bagpipes in a rock band setting. They were formed in Burlington, Vermont, and have released five albums to date. Prydein has played many major festivals up and down the East Coast and the Midwest United States, including the Celtic Classic, New Hampshire Highland Games, and the Detroit Highland Games, and have been featured at the Eastern States Exposition for five years and the New World Festival for 10 years.

Prydein came about when the band Whisky Before Breakfast split up and the members went different ways. Whisky Before Breakfast started in March 1996 by a group of University of Vermont students. Three out of five of the members came from the UVM Living and Learning Center's "Experimental Music Program." Joined by traditional bagpiper Iain MacHarg (Highland and Lowland bagpipes, flute, penny whistle) and fiddler Ellery Klein (later of Gaelic Storm), Whisky Before Breakfast released its first official CD in April 1997, titled Hell's Brook. Originally recorded in September 1996, the album came out after Whisky's fiddler, Ellery, had moved to Japan to teach English. Throughout the year, the remaining four (Aron Garceau, Sam Hooker, Eric Garland and Iain MacHarg) went on to form a Celtic-rock quartet. The band's sound changed immensely, filling out the parts to counter the loss of the fiddle.

In 1998, the group produced and recorded its second album, Time Well Spent. After the release of this album and a summer tour, the group broke up after playing the Celtic Classic.

Prydein was formed in 1999, just after the breakup of Whisky Before Breakfast. Aron Garceau and Iain MacHarg decided that they wanted to continue on in the genre and had a lot of music left to play. Their first album, Unfinished Business, came out in 1999 with Peter Kelly on drums. The role of bass wasn't filled when work on the CD first started. Vermont musician Aaron Flynn played bass on half the album and Jeff Margolis was later recruited to become Prydein's fourth member and finished playing the rest of the bass parts. After touring in support of the album for a year, taking the band to Virginia and New Hampshire, Aron and Iain decided to end the band for a while, as busy schedules and personality conflicts came into play.

In 2001, Iain got a call to perform at the New World Festival in Randolph, Vermont. Pete and Jeff had already left the band, so Iain recruited Andrew Adams to play the part of drummer and Aron recruited a bassist. Aron had been playing in the jazz sextet Jazzmosis, and he recruited Jazzmosis bassist Andy Smith to Prydein. With this lineup, the band performed in Florida for the SASF Highland Games and New World Festival every year. The boys were joined by a fifth member, Hazen Metro on highland bagpipes, a student of Iain's and member of Iain's Catamount Pipe Band.

In 2006, Aron recruited Jazzmosis drummer Caleb Bronz to join the band after Andrew Adams moved on. The band was also joined by another highland bagpiper, 16-year-old Willa Davie, another of Iain's students and member of the Catamount Pipe Band. This lineup played their first gig on Main Street in Concord, New Hampshire for Concord Market Days. As Hazen and Willa each graduated high school and moved on to college Prydein become a quartet again, often joined on stage by other pipers who happened to be in the audience. In 2007, the band recorded its second album, Loud Pipes (Save Lives) with its trademark set ender, "Stairway to Scotland", a version of Amazing Grace and Scotland the Brave. The band later recorded a third album, Heads Up, which was released in 2010. After the release of Heads Up the band was joined by Dan Houghton (founding member of the Scottish band Cantrip) who plays bagpipes, flute and bouzuki.

Alan Frew - Owner of a Lonely Heart

 Alan Graham Frew (born November 8, 1956) is a Scottish-Canadian singer, songwriter, actor, and author, who is the lead singer of the Canadian rock band Glass Tiger. He has also released three solo albums.In 1983, Frew and others formed Glass Tiger. In 1986, the band released its first album, The Thin Red Line. Two of its songs, "Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)" and "Someday", reached the Top 10 in the U.S. charts. The Thin Red Line went quadruple platinum in Canada and gold in the United States. Glass Tiger was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1987 and has won five Canadian Juno Awards.  Frew and Stephan Moccio co-wrote "I Believe", which "became the theme song for Canada's Olympic Broadcast Consortium for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver" and "Free to Be", which is used by the Toronto Maple Leafs as their theme song.

Greta Panettieri - Easy

Greta Panettieri (7 April 1978) is an Italian singer, songwriter, writer and musician. Born in Rome and raised in Umbria, Greta Panettieri began her musical career as a six-year-old playing the violin, the instrument that she studied at Conservatory Francesco Morlacchi of Perugia for the next 10 years. She also studied piano and vocals. In 1994 Greta won a scholarship to attend the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Instead of going to Boston on scholarship, Panettieri decided to stay in New York City after arriving from Italy. She started singing in several clubs, with different styles, from the most traditional to the most experimental, performing with jazz groups but also Latin music, Funk, R&B, Electronic music and Bossa nova. Singing different musical genres allowed her to learn both English and Portuguese. In 2004 she founded "Greta's Bakery", along with Italian pianist Andrea Sammartino, American bassist Mike La Valle.

In 2005, after showcasing for several labels, Panettieri signed with Universal Music Group. She began collaborating with composer Phil Galdston, author of songs such as The Last to Know by Céline Dion and Save the Best for Last by Vanessa L. Williams.

In 2007 she was signed by Decca Records (Universal Music Group), working with producer Stewart Lerman.

In 2009 Panettieri toured Europe as Joe Jackson's opening act.

In 2010, the album "The Edge of Everything" by Greta's Bakery was released in the US by Decca Records. The same year Greta participated in an international project as a guest vocalist and co-author of Patricia Romania's album Sou Brasileira published by Pony Canyon in Japan.^[3] This experience led Greta to collaborating with Terri Lynn Carrington, Robert Irving III, Paolinho Braga, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Toninho Horta, Nona Hendrix and many more.

As a solo artist, Greta recorded a live album at ZincBar, a New York jazz club in the heart of the West Village, with Brazilian pianist Cidinho Teixeira, bassist Itaiguara Brandao, drummer Mauricio Zottarelli, and saxophonist Rodrigo Ursaia. The album, "Brazilian Nights (Live at ZincBar)" was released in 2011 under the Greta's Bakery music label.

In 2011, Greta moved back to Italy and started performing in various clubs and festivals including a series of concerts at Umbria Jazz Winter. She began collaborating with Gegè Telesforo, including many songs on Telesforo's albums Nu Joy (Columbia Records) and Fun Slow Ride published by Ropeadope 2016. Greta has toured off and on with Telesforo ever since.

In 2013, with the supervision of Larry Williams, Greta wrote a new album with Andrea Sammartino titled Under Control. The album was released by GBM worldwide on all digital platforms at the end of 2013, and was physically released in December 2014 attached to a Graphic Novel published Viaggio in Jazz by Edizioni Corsare and inspired by Greta's life.

In 2014, Greta also released an Italian album, Non Gioco Più, that reinterprets the great successes of Mina (Italian legendary singer from the 60s) and features, among others, Fabrizio Bosso. The atmospheres of this work retain two timeless feelings: on the one hand the nocturnal, suffused and golden world of jazz; on the other, the mood of Italian songwriting between the '60s and' 70s.

In 2014, Greta sang with Sergio Cammariere on three tracks of his album entitled Mano Nella Mano (RCA Records).

In 2015, Greta was featured in 4 episodes of the Italian national RAI radio show "Radio 2 Social Club" as "la ragazza del club" next to Luca Barbarossa.

In July 2015, the single "C'est Irreparable" was released, premiering live at the BlueNote Milan on 5 July.

In 2016, TV Channel La7 hosted Greta for over 20 episodes as a musical guest on the TV show L'aria che tira conducted by Myrta Merlino. The same year, she co-wrote the single Let The Children with Gegè Telesforo and Ben Sidran that eventually became the UNICEF testimonial song.

In October 2016 Greta released the album "Shattered/Sgretolata". Recorded between Rome and NYC, the album features many guests: Claudio "Greg" Gregori, drummer Mauricio Zottarelli and bassist Itaiguara Brandao from New York City and jazz guitarist Francesco Diodati. NYC visual artist Jennie Booth wrote the lyrics for the single I'm in Love.

In 2017 and 2018 Greta toured Russia, China and Europe, with the Shattered/Sgretolata Tour. She was also featured as a special guest vocalist on Brazilian guitarist and songwriter Toquinho spring and summer

 Italian Tour.

Salvador Santana feat. Juanes & Asdru Sierra from Ozomatli - Molina

 Salvador Santana (nacido el 22 de mayo de 1983) es un músico y compositor estadounidense, reconocido por ser el hijo del famoso guitarrista mexicano Carlos Santana​ y de la autora y activista Deborah Santana.​ Su abuelo materno, Saunders King, es un ícono del blues estadounidense, y su abuelo paterno, José Santana, fue un reconocido violinista y mariachi. Santana empezó a tocar los teclados a la edad de cinco años, instruido por Marcia Miget. Luego estudió música en la Escuela de Artes de San Francisco. En 1999 con su padre en la composición de la canción ganadora de un premio Grammy "El Farol", perteneciente al premiado álbum Supernatural.

Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez (Medellín, 9 de agosto de 1972), conocido por su nombre artístico Juanes, es un cantante colombiano de pop latino y rock en español que combina diversos ritmos musicales, compositor, músico y diseñador industrial. Ha sido premiado con 26 Grammy Latinos a lo largo de su trayectoria musical. Este es el mayor récord logrado por un cantante colombiano​ y el artista solista con más Grammy ganados. Además, ha vendido más de 16 millones de álbumes a nivel mundial, siendo el quinto cantante colombiano con más discos vendidos.

Ozomatli is an American rock band, formed in 1995 in Los Angeles. They are known both for their vocal activist viewpoints and incorporating a wide array of musical styles – including salsa, jazz, funk, reggae, hip hop, and others.^[4] The group formed in 1995 and has since released seven studio albums. The group is also known for advocating for farm-workers' rights and immigration reform. The band has performed in various countries all over the world, including China, Tunisia, Jordan, Cuba, and Burma. Although the band has had many member changes over the years and has sometimes had as many as ten members, the current six members have been in the band since its debut album.

In 1998, Ozomatli released its self-titled debut album, and soon after opened for Santana on their Supernatural Tour. The group released Embrace the Chaos in 2001, followed by Street Signs in 2004. Don't Mess with the Dragon followed in 2007, which saw the band experimenting with a more diverse array of musical styles. The group composed music for Happy Feet 2 and recorded Ozomatli Presents Ozokidz, a family-friendly album. From 2011 to 2014, Ozomatli also served as the house band for stand-up comedian Gabriel Iglesias' television show, Gabriel Iglesias Presents Stand Up Revolution.

Robert Palmer - All Shook Up

 Robert Allen Palmer (Batley, 19 de enero de 1949-París, 26 de septiembre de 2003) fue un músico, productor, compositor y multinstrumentista inglés. Considerado como un cantante de rock, a lo largo de su carrera interpretó una variedad de géneros musicales como blue-eyed soul, funk, blues, jazz, reggae, new wave, synth pop, rhythm and blues, dance-rock, bossa nova y calypso, entre otros.

Inició su carrera con quince años en la banda The Mandrakes, con quienes teloneó los conciertos de artistas como Jimi Hendrix, Fleetwood Mac y The Who. Después de un período con el grupo The Alan Bown Set (1969-1970), se unió a la agrupación de jazz rock Dada, que en 1971 se reestructuró para formar Vinegar Joe. Con dicha banda grabó tres álbumes de estudio hasta que optaron por separarse en 1974. En ese mismo año, comenzó su carrera solista con el disco Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley, grabado con el apoyo de los músicos de The Meters y el guitarrista de Little Feat, Lowell George. Durante la segunda parte de la década de 1970, publicó cuatro producciones con las que obtuvo un parcial éxito comercial en el Reino Unido y los Estados Unidos. Después del lanzamiento de Clues (1980) y Pride (1983), participó en el supergrupo The Power Station que en 1985 editó su álbum debut homónimo. Su repentina popularidad los llevó a organizar una gira de conciertos, pero Palmer renunció días antes de que iniciara para enfocarse nuevamente en su carrera solista. En la segunda parte de la década de 1980 consiguió un importante éxito comercial en varios países con los discos Riptide (1985) y Heavy Nova (1988). Gracias a sus respectivos sencillos «Addicted to Love» y «Simply Irresistible», ganó en dos ocasiones el premio Grammy a la mejor interpretación vocal de rock masculina y recibió tres nominaciones en los Brit Awards.

Sin embargo, paulatinamente este éxito decayó en la década siguiente en donde lanzó cuatro trabajos de estudio, con los que incursionó en otros estilos musicales tales como el hard rock, worldbeat o la música africana. De ellos destacó Ridin' High (1992) considerado por el propio cantante como su único álbum conceptual. En 2001, participó en un disco tributo a Robert Johnson y trabajó como compositor para la banda sonora de la película The Yellow Bird, hechos que lo inspiraron para registrar un álbum orientado al blues titulado Drive (2003), que se convirtió inesperadamente en su última producción.

Robert Palmer falleció el 26 de septiembre de 2003 a causa de un infarto agudo de miocardio en París (Francia), mientras estaba hospedado en el hotel Warwick. Respetado por la crítica, pero relativamente poco comercial, Palmer también fue conocido por su elegante forma de vestir, ya que a diferencia de otros artistas de rock usaba trajes de diseñadores italianos. Debido a ello, la prensa británica lo apodó «The Hairdresser», el esteticista en español, e incluso la revista Rolling Stone lo nombró como el artista masculino mejor vestido en 1990.

Nancy Wilson featuring Liv Warfield - Dreams

 Nancy Wilson (born March 16, 1954) is an American musician. She rose to fame alongside her older sister Ann as a guitarist, backing and occasional lead vocalist in the rock band Heart.

Raised in Bellevue, Washington, Wilson began playing music as a teenager. During college, she joined her sister who had recently become the singer of Heart. The first hard rock band fronted by women, Heart released numerous albums throughout the late 1970s and 1980s; the albums Dreamboat Annie (1975), and Little Queen (1977) generated chart singles such as "Magic Man", "Crazy on You", and "Barracuda". The band also had commercial success with their eighth, ninth and tenth studio albums, Heart, Bad Animals and Brigade, which were released in 1985, 1987, and 1990 respectively. Heart has sold over 35 million records.

Wilson has been lauded for her guitar playing, noted for its blending elements of flamenco and classical guitar styles with hard rock. In 2016, Gibson ranked Wilson the eighth-greatest female guitarist of all time. She is also an accomplished singer in her own right, being the lead vocalist in the song "These Dreams", which became Heart's first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2013, Wilson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Heart.

Two of the Wilson sisters' friends joined them to form the Wilsons' first music group, The Viewpoints. The Viewpoints were a four-part harmony vocal group. Later that year, Ann purchased her first guitar, a Kent acoustic, with money given to her by her grandmother. Wilson's parents soon bought Nancy a smaller guitar, but since it would not stay in tune, she began playing Ann's Kent guitar. The Viewpoints' first public show was a folk festival on Vashon Island in 1967. In Wilson's words, "We didn't get paid, but since there were people sitting in folding chairs, we considered it a professional gig." The band played at venues such as drive-ins, auto shows, and church socials.

The Wilsons' public debut as a duo took place on Mother's Day at their church. Later at a church Youth Day event, the duo performed "The Great Mandala (The Wheel of Life)" by Peter, Paul and Mary, Elvis Presley's "Crying in the Chapel", and The Doors' "When the Music's Over". The anti-war sentiment, and the irreverence for the venue in some of the lyrics, offended a number of people. By the time they finished, more than half had walked out. Wilson felt some guilt over the event, but "it lit a bonfire under us because we saw for the first time that what we did on stage could have an impact on an audience."

While still a senior in high school, Ann joined a band whose drummer knew a country songwriter who needed a backing band to play on his songwriting demos; Wilson and sister Ann entered a recording studio in Seattle to record the demos. During the session, the engineer allowed them to record the song "Through Eyes and Glass", which Nancy and Ann had written. The engineer had his own record label, and liked their songs enough that he offered to make up 500 copies "for a few bucks". Nancy and Ann's first single appeared on the B-side of the country track titled "I'm Gonna Drink My Hurt Away". It was credited to Ann Wilson and the Daybreaks, which was not the name of the band, and it omitted Nancy as co-songwriter. Later, the sisters were returned 250 unsold copies of the record.

During college, Wilson played solo acoustic shows at student unions, performing covers of Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon songs, as well as occasional originals.

Wilson's sister, Ann was an acquaintance of guitarist Roger Fisher and bass player Steve Fossen (of the local band The Army) when she answered their advertisement seeking a drummer and a singer. She impressed them with her vocal skills. Within an hour of meeting them, Ann joined the group, which was called Hocus Pocus.

The group shortly reformed as Heart. Pressed by her sister, Nancy joined the band and relocated to West Vancouver. Wilson recalls that "some of the guys" in the band were initially resistant to her joining, and insisted she audition by sitting in periodically. She was given the assignment to work up the introduction to the Yes song "Clap" (from The Yes Album). She learned it, and the next night after playing it with the band at a tavern, was officially made a member of the band.

The band had recorded a demo with Mushroom Records some time before, and producer Mike Flicker remembered them. Flicker saw Nancy as a "diamond in the rough", but was intrigued by the idea of a female rock guitarist.

Mushroom Records released "Magic Man" as a single before Heart's debut album, Dreamboat Annie, had been completed. The song received airplay in and around Vancouver. Portrait Records released the band's second official studio album, Little Queen, in May 1977. The album spawned the track "Barracuda", which reached number 11 on the Billboard charts. The band's third official release, Magazine, was released pre-emptively by Mushroom the following year, and contained eight tracks, some of which had been unfinished; the band sought an injunction and Magazine was recalled after 50,000 copies had already been sold. The dispute over the record lasted nearly two years.

Wilson and the group traveled to Berkeley, California, where her friend, Sue Ennis, was studying to receive a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. Ennis became a writing partner on the group's fourth release, Dog & Butterfly, which they wrote together over the course of a single day. The album was released in October 1978, selling a million copies within the first month. It remained on the album charts for the better part of a year and went on to become a triple-platinum album. It was the band's fourth million-selling album in a row.

During their tour to support Dog & Butterfly, Wilson and Fisher, who were a couple at the time, became estranged. After discovering Fisher had cheated on her, Wilson began dating Michael Derosier. This resulted in tension between the band members, ending with Fisher destroying a guitar onstage and throwing part of it at Wilson in a dressing room. In October 1979, the group voted to oust Fisher from the band;^[36] this change allowed Wilson the opportunity to play more lead guitar.

Heart's fifth album, Bébé le Strange, was released on Valentine's Day 1980. The band's sixth album, Private Audition, was released in June 1982 and sold only 400,000 copies; it peaked at number 25 on Billboard. After their series of platinum and gold albums, this was considered a flop. However, Heart continued to do well with concert sales, and had the eighth-highest-grossing tour of the year. During this time, tensions between Wilson and drummer Derosier had increased after several breakups, and both bassist Fossen and he decided to leave the band. Over the next year, they were replaced by bassist Mark Andes and drummer Denny Carmassi.

The lackluster performance of Private Audition led to increased pressure for the band's next album, Passionworks (1983). Drugs became a factor in the band's work during this time. Wilson recalls: "Everything we did in those years had a white sheen of powder over it. There were only a few people on our crew, or band, who resisted. Cocaine was sprinkled over the albums, the videos, and our lives. Cocaine stripped all the humor out of our music. The videos we made were completely without intentional comedy, but were so serious they had an almost comedic feel." After the release of Passionworks, CBS dropped the band due to lackluster sales.

The self-titled Heart (1985) became the band's first number-one album. "What About Love" was released as a single ahead of the album; it became a hit, and crossed over into the pop charts. The album remained on the charts for 78 weeks and went on to be certified five-times platinum. The album had five hit singles, including "These Dreams", a single that featured Nancy Wilson on lead vocals. "These Dreams" had been submitted to the band after Stevie Nicks had turned it down. Though she had not written it, Wilson loved the song from the start. She had to fight to sing it because some band members thought it "did not sound like a Heart song." During the taping session, they received a letter from Sharon Hess, a 22-year-old fan who was dying of leukemia. One of her wishes was to meet Nancy and Ann, and she arrived the same day as the recording of Nancy's vocals for "These Dreams". Sharon loved the song and Wilson dedicated it to her in the album notes. Sharon died just a few days after the final mixes were finished. "These Dreams" became Heart's first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 on March 22, 1986.

The album Bad Animals (1987) was preceded by the single "Alone"; it became the band's second number-one hit, and the second-biggest single for the year. This gave them something they had not had with the Heart album: a number-one single before the tour started or the album was released. "We were following on success, not building to it," Wilson recalled. The Bad Animals tour was to start in May 1987 in Europe, and all the dates were sellouts, including three dates at Wembley Arena. During the tour, Ann began to have moments of panic and stage fright. Nancy would have to step forward and play an unscheduled guitar solo, or other ploys, to buy time for Ann to compose herself. Work began on the following album, Brigade, in 1989.

Around 1990, Wilson and sister Ann were approached to play a Red Cross benefit for the troops during the Gulf War. The promoter wanted Heart to play, but most of the band had been let go after the Brigade tour. Nancy and Ann coaxed Sue Ennis to join and play for the one-time event, along with another friend, Frank Cox. The band's name, Lovemongers, emerged as a counter to war-mongering sentiment surrounding the Gulf War. Since the band lacked a drummer, Ennis programmed a rhythm track into her keyboard and they brought a cardboard cutout of Ringo Starr on stage as a joke. The group played a wrap party for Singles (1992)--a film directed by Wilson's husband, Cameron Crowe—with a local Seattle band called Mookie Blaylock (the band was later renamed Pearl Jam). A four-song EP, which included a live version of Led Zeppelin's "The Battle of Evermore" and an updated version of the Heart standard "Crazy On You", came out in late 1992. A cover of "The Battle of Evermore" also appeared on the original soundtrack for the 1992 film Singles.

In October 1991, Heart released Rock the House Live!, which chronicled songs played on the Brigade tour in 1990. Grunge had taken a firm hold on music by this time, and combined with the lack of big hits the album peaked at only 107 on the Billboard charts.

The album Desire Walks On was released in November 1993 and peaked on Billboard at number 48. It was far from a flop – it received gold certification in August 1995 – but also far from the multiplatinum status their string of 1980s albums had been.

Heart owed Capitol records one more album. Since their Lovemongers shows had received such a positive response, they decided to record an "unplugged" album. They recruited many rock notables to contribute to the record, titled The Road Home. John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin served as producer; Layne Staley of Alice in Chains and Chris Cornell of Soundgarden both contributed. The album only reached number 87 on the U.S. Billboard 200, and the group was dropped by Capitol.

In 1995, Wilson requested that Heart go on hiatus. Wilson explained that she wanted to spend more time working with husband Cameron Crowe on film scores and start a family. At the time, Wilson was 41 and undergoing fertility treatments, which were difficult to schedule around a rock tour and appearances.

Wilson had played "Beautiful Girl in Car" in Crowe's Fast Times at Ridgemont High, then had a small speaking part in The Wild Life. She also contributed some guitar recordings for Crowe's 1989 film Say Anything... and the original song "All For Love". Wilson became more involved in Jerry Maguire, Crowe's new film, and decided that she would write the film score.

During her hiatus from Heart, Wilson was not entirely dormant as a performer; she played the occasional Lovemongers benefit, though she noted that her fertility treatments made performing increasingly difficult. In 1996, Wilson performed her first solo acoustic show in 30 years. Kelly Curtis arranged to have a recording of that show released as an album, Live from McCabe's Guitar Shop, in 1999. The music on the album is a mix of Heart songs, covers (including songs by Peter Gabriel, Joni Mitchell, and Paul Simon), and original new material. In November 1997, Nancy and Ann set out on a 12-date tour travelling by van on what they called the "Don't Blink" tour (joking that, "if you blinked, you missed it.")

The Lovemongers released a full-length album titled Whirlygig in 1997 and a collection of mostly self-penned Christmas songs titled Here is Christmas in 1998. Here is Christmas was re-released as a Heart album with the title Heart Presents a Lovemongers' Christmas in 2001.

For Crowe's 2000 film Almost Famous, Wilson composed the theme and produced two original songs: "Fever Dog" and "Lucky Trumble". She also helped as a technical consultant, coaching the actors on how to look and act like musicians on stage. Wilson was nominated for a Sierra Award for Best Score, a PFCS Award for Best Original Score, and an Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music.

In 2002, Heart embarked on a tour. The tour became a family affair, with four children and their nannies added to the mix of musicians, technical staff, and roadies. It was an eight-week tour and ended what had been a 10-year hiatus from touring for Wilson. The Summer of Love tour concluded in Seattle and that performance was released as the Alive in Seattle DVD, which achieved gold status without an associated album.

Wilson provided the score for the films Vanilla Sky (2001) and Elizabethtown (2005). She was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Music for her work in Vanilla Sky as well as a Critics Choice Award for Best Composer for Elizabethtown.

The sisters decided to record a new Heart studio album, Jupiters Darling, the first since 1993. Wilson was co-producer, along with guitarist Craig Bartock, who had just joined the band. They wrote all the songs for the album except one. To enhance the guitar parts, Wilson got friends Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam's Mike McCready to contribute. The album, released by Sovereign Records, charted on the Billboard Top 100, but sold only 100,000 copies.

In 2009, Wilson released Baby Guitars, a solo album aimed at children, composed of instrumental lullabies written and recorded with Craig Bartock. On that same year, after completing a tour with Journey and Cheap Trick, Wilson began recording Heart's 14th studio album, Red Velvet Car, with Ann. The album was released in 2010 and included two singles by Nancy: "Hey You", which reached the top 40 on the Hot Adult Contemporary chart; and "Sunflower", which Nancy wrote for Ann's 60th birthday. The album peaked at number 10 on the Billboard 200 chart and three on the Rock Albums chart. With Nancy now aged 56, and Ann about to become a grandmother, the sisters had managed to have albums make it onto top-10 charts in four different decades. The band's subsequent tour sold out and charted on Billboard just behind those of Lady Gaga and Rihanna.

After completing an international tour with Def Leppard in 2011, Heart was nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. On December 11, 2012, Heart was announced to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2013, along with Rush, Albert King, Randy Newman, Donna Summer, Public Enemy, Quincy Jones, and Lou Adler. Nancy and Ann also received a star for Heart on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in September 2012.

Heart released its 15th studio album, Fanatic, in October 2012; it debuted at number 24 on the Billboard 200, and hit number 10 on Billboard's Rock Album chart.

Simultaneously, Wilson began assisting in compiling the band's first boxed set, Strange Euphoria (taken from the name of their music publishing company).

In 2016, Heart released their 16th studio album, titled Beautiful Broken, which features Wilson singing lead vocals on the tracks "Two" and "One Word". At an August 26, 2016, show in Auburn, Washington, Wilson's teenaged sons were reportedly assaulted by Ann's husband, Dean Wetter.^[2] After the incident, Ann confirmed that Heart was on an "indefinite" hiatus.

In late 2016, Wilson formed a band called Roadcase Royale with former Prince band member and R&B singer Liv Warfield, lead guitarist Ryan Waters (the musical director for Liv's solo work and Prince protégé), Heart keyboardist Chris Joyner, bassist Dan Rothchild, and drummer Ben Smith. They released their first single, "Get Loud", in January 2017. The band signed with Loud and Proud Records in July 2017 and released their debut full-length album First Things First on September 22, 2017.

In February 2019, Heart announced that its hiatus had ended and that the band would embark on the Love Alive tour in the summer of 2019.

In 2021, she released her first solo studio rock album, You and Me.

Liv Warfield is an American R&B singer-songwriter from Peoria, Illinois. She was part of Prince's New Power Generation and as of 2016 is with Roadcase Royale, a band formed with Nancy Wilson and members of Heart.

Warfield grew up the daughter of a Pentecostal deacon, listening to gospel music, in a strict background that didn't allow her to listen to secular music; she used to sing Whitney Houston songs to herself when her parents weren't around. She graduated from Peoria Notre Dame High School in 1997. Warfield later moved from Peoria to go to college in Portland, Oregon on a track scholarship at Portland State University. Her interest in public singing started at a karaoke club but she was so nervous on her first try that she sang with her back facing the audience. Eventually she became obsessed with performing to the point that she would attend daily and progressed to wearing wigs and costumes. At another establishment, she watched Linda Hornbuckle, who brought her onstage to sing, and again due to nervousness, Warfield sang with her back to the crowd. When she decided to pursue singing as a career, she dropped out of school and slept in her car.^[5] Her mother was initially upset to discover Warfield was singing and wanted to bring her back home, but eventually changed her mind and became supportive.^[3] In 2006, Warfield self-released her first album Embrace Me – a collection of strong ballads. She did performances and sold her cds at a local market.

Warfield's music career took off in 2009 after being selected as the newest member of Prince's New Power Generation two months after he took interest in a submitted video of her performing The Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter", and she subsequently auditioned for him. He mentored her, helping hone her stage presence and studio arrangement of her music. She toured with the band for five years. Warfield is featured on his album Lotusflow3r. Her second solo album, The Unexpected was released early 2014 with Prince as its Executive Producer and the New Power Generation providing horns; Prince also wrote the single under the same name for the album. After Prince died, Warfield performed at Celebration 2017, a multi-day tribute to his life and legacy held a year after his death, at Paisley Park.^[9] She said "I, personally, have a hard time dealing with loss. But this time for me, I felt at peace. I felt peaceful. That was my hope. That was my intention — please let us see the light, despite all this other stuff going on."

In 2015, Warfield was chosen to be the opening act for Heart's Hollywood Bowl concert after Nancy Wilson had seen her on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and was impressed with her performance of "Why Do You Lie?". As a fan of the band's work, Warfield was excited to meet them and after the end of the show, she met up with Nancy Wilson. Wilson expressed an interest in Warfield's sound and later the women bonded over different songs they tried out together. The duo teamed up to form a new group called Roadcase Royale in 2016. Its style is rock, R&B and ballads reflecting the sounds of both their respective bands. Lead guitarist Ryan Waters (the musical director for Warfield's solo work and Prince protégé), Heart keyboardist Chris Joyner, bassist Dan Rothchild, and drummer Ben Smith complete the band's membership. They released their first single, "Get Loud", in January 2017 and signed with Loud and Proud Records in July 2017. Their debut full-length album First Things First was released on September 22, 2017. The band was scheduled to open for Bob Seger on his 2017 Runaway Train tour for a number of appearances, but due to Seger's medical issues the original tour was cancelled. The postponed shows will again feature Roadcase Royale as the opening act on select dates.