Charlie Wilson is an American R&B/soul music legend who has been nominated for seven Grammy Awards, including Best R&B Album for “Uncle Charlie” and Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for “There Goes My Baby.” Sober for nineteen years, Wilson signed with Jive in 2004 after landing his first No. 1 Billboard Urban AC hit in 2000, “Without You.” Recently he has released songs such as “All of My Love,” which features Smokey Robinson, as well as “Forever Valentine.” Wilson averages seventy-five to one hundred shows a year between concert tours, festivals, and private events, while also devoting his time to charity work as a spokesperson for the Prostate Cancer Foundation. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife.
I can still remember first hearing the music of Uncle Charlie and
The GAP Band as a kid in Long Beach, California. When I started
taking my rapping seriously, he was someone that I always wanted to
work with. I was lucky enough to make that happen when he got down
with me on my album Tha Doggfather. It's been nearly two decades
since that record dropped and Charlie and I have been family the
whole time. We've made hit records together, rocked the Live 8
stage, and I even got to honor him at the BET Awards when he got
the Lifetime Achievement Award. He's been an inspiration, mentor
and a big role model to me as a father and a husband. He taught me
how to love my wife and kids first and my career after. He’s been
there for me when I needed him the most and I hope I have been the
same to him and his lovely wife and son Michael “Pesci” Paran. We
are family. He’s my uncle by love not by blood. First name Charlie
last name Wilson.
*Snoop Dogg*
Wilson's engaging story frames the excess of a life in pop-culture
music while illustrating the way that faith, love, [and]
determination can overcome even major obstacles.
*Publisher's Weekly*
A moving, powerful story of survival and redemption—like The Gap
Band would say, outstanding!
*author of Let's Go Crazy: Prince and the Making of Purple Rain*
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