Raised near Seattle, Washington in the suburb of Bellevue, Wilson began playing music as a teenager. During college, she joined her sister Ann, 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. Heart has sold over 35 million records.