![]() ![]() However, he worked through, perhaps, the lowest chapter in his life to pull it back together. There was this down period when he battled drug and alcohol addiction. This is the biggest R&B tour that’s out and we are having a lot of fun.”Īt one point in Wilson’s life and singing career, the word fun wasn’t in his vocabulary. ![]() I enjoy sharing the stage with my two talented friends, KEM and Joe. “It’s going to be a special night for all the ladies that will join me and my special guests. “I am so glad to be on the road once again and to bring my show to so many cities across the country,” said Wilson. Wilson is currently headlining his own national tour called “Forever Charlie,” which features recording artists KEM and Joe. It was Snoop Dogg who gave Wilson the nickname, “Uncle Charlie.” Charlie Wilson performs onstage at Barclays Center of Brooklyn on Main New York City Many of these younger artists have musically collaborated with their “Uncle Charlie”, to include Shaggy, Snoop Dogg, and Kanye West. His latest album is entitled, “ Forever Charlie,” which contains the hit songs, “Goodnight Kisses” and “Touched by an Angel.” Wilson is also affectionally called “Uncle Charlie” by his younger fans, as well as dozens of younger recording artists, including the one’s that call themselves his famous nephews. Today, Wilson, 62, records and performs as a solo artist. What followed was a string of mega hits, inclusive of “Early in the Morning,” “Outstanding,” “Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me?).” Other chart-toppers were, “I Don’t Believe You Want to Get Up and Dance (Oops, Upside Your Head)” “You Dropped a Bomb on Me,” “Party Train,” “Yearning for Your Love,” and many more. ![]() All they had to do was look at the top of any R&B music chart, where they would find such hit songs as “Shake,” the group’s first hit and a top-ten tune. Music listeners didn’t need a GPS to find the GAP Band. The group, which he co-founded, consisted of three brothers from Tulsa, Oklahoma: Charlie (lead vocals, keyboards), Ronnie (horns, keyboards, background vocals) and Robert (bass, background vocals). After all, from the 1970s into the 1990s, he was the front man for The GAP Band, one of the hottest R&B ensembles on the planet. The band produced a number of hit songs, including "You Dropped a Bomb on Me," "Burn Rubber on Me (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)" and "Outstanding.*R&B singing legend, Charlie Wilson, is used to the lime-light, which has illuminated his long and storied career in music for decades. But it was in the 1980s that the group's distinctive electro-funk style would come to define the era's increasingly synth-heavy R&B sound. ![]() The Gap Band released its debut album, Magicians Holiday, in 1974. Ronnie would develop into an accomplished multi-instrumentalist, contributing keyboards, horns and percussion in addition to vocals on several of the band's albums. The brothers grew up with a love of music, raised by a music teacher mother and a preacher father. The name was inspired by three streets in their hometown - Greenwood, Archer and Pine - that had defined the "Black Wall Street" district destroyed in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Wilson formed The Gap Band in the early 1970s in Tulsa, Okla., with his brothers Charlie and Robert Wilson. "Ronnie Wilson was a genius with creating, producing, and playing the flugelhorn, trumpet, keyboards, and singing music, from childhood to his early seventies." "The love of my life was called home this morning," Wilson's wife, Linda Boulware-Wilson, wrote in a Nov. He was 73 years old, The Associated Press reports. Ronnie Wilson, founding member of the R&B group The Gap Band, has died. ![]()
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