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He is a trumpeter, keyboard player and singer-songwriter
who was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
and was the son of a Pentecostal minister and the eldest brother of Charlie
and Robert Wilson. He and his
brothers learned to sing in the church from around the age of 3 or 4 and
from high school years they were performing with bands. He and his brothers formed Greenwood,
Archer and Pine Band in 1967 and released their first album in 1974. They eventually became the Gap Band
and started to see success in 1979 which carried on into the 1980s. He co-wrote the several of the bands
songs including "Party Lights". The band slowed down around 1984 but
worked on the songs for the film I'm
Gonna Get You Sucka as well as released
the album The Gap Band: Alive and
Well
in 1997.
In 1984 he became a born again Christian and became a pastor. He also appeared in the play Mama, I'm Sorry with David Peaston and Melba Moore.
Gap Band
Recordings
Baby Baba Boogie
(Lonnie Simmons/Charlie Wilson)
Party Lights
Remix (Charlie Wilson/Lonnie Simmons/Ronnie Wilson/Rudolph Taylor)
Sources:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gap_Band
- www.answers.com/Gap%20Band%20II
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