Nancy Wilson's guitar work shaped the fabric of Heart's music and influenced the trajectory of the band's career and staying power. However, her career wasn't a given, as Wilson had to work hard to ignore the outside noise that tried to deter her from playing guitar in the first place.
“Our parents saw how consumed we were, so they were very encouraging. It was the neighbors, the Joneses, that said: ‘Don’t let Nancy play guitar, it’ll ruin her fingernails,’” Wilson recently told Louder.
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