MY NAME IS CHARLIE LAST NAME WILSON LYRICS PLUS

Wilson (who is also publicly celebrated in the US these days for his work as national spokesperson for the Prostate Cancer Foundation) hooks up for the first time with Гўв‚¬ЛњBlues & SoulГўв‚¬в„ў Assistant Editor Pete Lewis to discuss his upcoming London show the extreme highs and lows of his trailblazing, 44-year career plus his ongoing close relationship with the cream of AmericaГўв‚¬в„ўs hip hop talent.Д¬harlieГўв‚¬в„ўs thoughts on his upcoming headline concert at LondonГўв‚¬в„ўs IndigO2 Г‚в‚¬В¦ All of which in turn brings us up-to-date. Though it was after signing a multi-album deal with Jive Records in 2004 that Charlie would truly return to the bona fide US chart heights of his Gap Band days - with his first three releases for the label (2005Гўв‚¬в„ўs Gold-selling Гўв‚¬ЛњCharlie, Last Name WilsonГўв‚¬в„ў 2008Гўв‚¬в„ўs double-Grammy-nominated, R&B chart-topping Гўв‚¬ЛњUncle CharlieГўв‚¬в„ў and 2010Гўв‚¬в„ўs Гўв‚¬ЛњJust CharlieГўв‚¬в„ў) having all attained Top 10 status Stateside while simultaneously establishing him firmly as one of R&B musicГўв‚¬в„ўs most enduring and influential vocalists. Meanwhile, with Wilson having released a one-off solo album Гўв‚¬ЛњYou Turn My Life AroundГўв‚¬в„ў 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 2000Гўв‚¬в„ўs Interscope-released Гўв‚¬ЛњBridge The GapГўв‚¬в„ў. 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 todayГўв‚¬в„ўs 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.ДЄ fact which, coupled with The Gap BandГўв‚¬в„ўs vast back-catalogue being heavily sampled by AmericaГўв‚¬в„ўs then-rising hip hop generation, would in the mid-Nineties lead to one of rap musicГўв‚¬в„ўs 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 Гўв‚¬ЛњTha DoggfatherГўв‚¬в„ў. 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 Гўв‚¬ЛњAll Of My LoveГўв‚¬в„ў, the groupГўв‚¬в„ўs gradual commercial demise also sadly coincided with CharlieГўв‚¬в„ўs personal descent into drug addiction, alcoholism and homelessness during the late-Eighties/early-Nineties. Which in turn spawned a succession of US Top Five R&B singles, the best known being 1980Гўв‚¬в„ўs 'Oops Upside Your HeadГўв‚¬в„ў (also a Top Five UK pop smash) 1981Гўв‚¬в„ўs Гўв‚¬ЛњBurn Rubber On MeГўв‚¬в„ў and Гўв‚¬ЛњYearning For Your LoveГўв‚¬в„ў 1982Гўв‚¬в„ўs Гўв‚¬ЛњEarly In The MorningГўв‚¬в„ў and Гўв‚¬ЛњYou Dropped A Bomb On MeГўв‚¬в„ў 1983Гўв‚¬в„ўs Гўв‚¬ЛњOutstandingГўв‚¬в„ў plus 1987Гўв‚¬в„ўs Гўв‚¬ЛњBig FunГўв‚¬в„ў (another British Top Five pop hit). Signing with controversial Los Angeles producer Lonnie SimmonsГўв‚¬в„ў 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 Гўв‚¬ЛњThe Gap BandГўв‚¬в„ў.

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 LondonГўв‚¬в„ўs IndigO2.Д«orn Charles Kent Wilson in January 1953, Charlie was raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma where, at age three, he was first taught to sing in his parentsГўв‚¬в„ў Pentecostal church before later becoming a prominent member of his Junior High SchoolГўв‚¬в„ўs 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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