Meanwhile, with Wilson having released a one-off solo album ‘You Turn My Life Around’ for the MCA label back in 1992, the Noughties - thanks largely to his new-found acceptance from the modern-day hip hop/R&B generation - finally saw him launching his solo career permanently, via 2000’s Interscope-released ‘Bridge The Gap’. Kelly Jay-Z Justin Timberlake Jamie Foxx and T-Pain. All of which in turn has since led to Charlie becoming a regular collaborator-of-choice for many of today’s leading hip hop/R&B artists - including (in addition to his still-ongoing friendship and working relationship with Snoop) such globally-acclaimed names as Kanye West R. Kelly.Ī fact which, coupled with The Gap Band’s vast back-catalogue being heavily sampled by America’s then-rising hip hop generation, would in the mid-Nineties lead to one of rap music’s biggest stars - multi-million-selling West Coast rhymesmith Snoop Dogg - first hooking-up with a by-now sober-and-rehabilitated Wilson for several tracks on his 1996 international hit album ‘Tha Doggfather’. During which time his musical influence was still nevertheless being strongly felt and resounding in the gritty, powerful vocal stylings of a whole new generation of chart-topping New Jack Swing/R&B vocalists - most notably Aaron Hall and R. Nevertheless, with The Gap Band scoring the last of their four US R&B Number One singles in 1989 with ‘All Of My Love’, the group’s gradual commercial demise also sadly coincided with Charlie’s personal descent into drug addiction, alcoholism and homelessness during the late-Eighties/early-Nineties.
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Which in turn spawned a succession of US Top Five R&B singles, the best known being 1980’s 'Oops Upside Your Head’ (also a Top Five UK pop smash) 1981’s ‘Burn Rubber On Me’ and ‘Yearning For Your Love’ 1982’s ‘Early In The Morning’ and ‘You Dropped A Bomb On Me’ 1983’s ‘Outstanding’ plus 1987’s ‘Big Fun’ (another British Top Five pop hit).
Signing with controversial Los Angeles producer Lonnie Simmons’ Mercury-affiliated Total Experience Records in 1979, the trio would - over the ensuing eight years - go on to help define and popularise an infectious and enduring form of upbeat funk (alongside soulful quiet storm ballads) on the nine consecutive hit albums they recorded for the label.
Whose name in 1973 would become shortened to ‘The Gap Band’. Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS).Iconic, four-times-Grammy-nominated funk/R&B vocalist Charlie Wilson - best known globally as former lead-singer with internationally-successful Eighties R&B chart-toppers The Gap Band - returns to the UK on September16 for a one-off headline show at London’s IndigO2.īorn Charles Kent Wilson in January 1953, Charlie was raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma where, at age three, he was first taught to sing in his parents’ Pentecostal church before later becoming a prominent member of his Junior High School’s choir and, in 1967, joining-up with his brothers Ronnie and Robert Wilson to form The Greenwood, Archer & Pine Street Band.
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Get the embed code Charlie Wilson - Charlie, Last Name Wilson Album Lyrics1.Charlie, Last Name Wilson2.Cry No More3.Let's Guarantee6.No Words7.Thru It All8.What If I'm The OneCharlie Wilson Lyrics provided by Just you took your time to say what's on your mind The letters you wrote, even the simple notes The way you look at me, with such sincerity If anything it takes me right back to youįrom your warm embrace to how your kisses taste You make my heart just skip a beat, let me count the waysīut that doesn't mean our love will stray You make my heart just skip a beat in so many ways We've been through it all a lot of nights, girl But I don't think it will hurt to hear it again
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