Charlie wilson biography gap band
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American singer, songwriter, and producer, Charles Kent Wilson, best known as Charlie Wilson, was born on January 29, 1953 to Reverend Oscar and Lucy Wilson in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His father was a Church of God in Christ minister. His mother was a pianist and minister of music in western Oklahoma for 45 years. Wilson has seven siblings: Ronnie, Robert, Claven, Loretta, Darla, Tawana, and Sharaun.
In his youth, Wilson often sang in church before his father’s Sunday sermons. In the fourth grade, he sang Tony Bennett’s signature song “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” to an auditorium of his elementary school peers. When he completed the last note of the song, he was stampeded by screaming girls and after recovering from the initial scare he realized he liked the attention. Wilson attended Dunbar Elementary School and Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He enrolled at Langston University (Langston, Oklahoma) and while there became a drum major for the Langston University Marching Pride. In 1967 Wilson, along with his brothers Ronnie and Robert, formed the Greenwood, Archer, and Pine Street Band, named for prominent streets in Tulsa’s Black Wall Street area. The band’s name was later shortened to the GAP Band. Wilson, as the band’s frontman, released several hit son
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Charlie Wilson (singer)
American singer
For other people named Charles Wilson, see Charles Wilson (disambiguation).
Musical artist
Charles Kent Wilson (born January 29, 1953), also known as Uncle Charlie, is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer who served lead vocalist for the Gap Band from its 1967 formation until its 2010 disbandment. As a solo act, Wilson has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards and 11 NAACP Image Awards (including two wins), received a 2009 Soul Train Icon Award, and was a recipient of a BMI Icon Award in 2005. In 2009 and 2020, he was named Billboard magazine's No. 1 Adult R&B Artist, and his song "There Goes My Baby"[1] was named the No. 1 Urban Adult Song for 2009 in Billboard.
On June 30, 2013, BET honored Wilson with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Wilson is the national spokesman of the Prostate Cancer Foundation, where there is a Creativity Award in his name. The organization donates hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to cancer research across the United States.
Early life
[edit]Charles Kent Wilson was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on January 29, 1953; he is the son of the Reverend Oscar Wilson, a minister in the Church of God in Christ. With his older brother Ronnie and younger brother Robert, Wilson o
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The Gap Band
American R&B survive funk necessitate (1967–2010)
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The Take a breather Band collective 1983 | |
| Origin | Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Genres | Funk, blues, electro-funk, R&B, soul, disco |
| Years active | 1967–2010 |
| Labels | Shelter Records, Tattoo/RCA, Hydrargyrum, Total Not remember, Capitol |
| Past members | |
| Website | www.gapband.com |
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