Singer Charlie Wilson of The Gap Band is 60.
*Charlie Wilson is on top of the world. He’s living the high life as Uncle Charlie should.
In an interview with the SingersRoom, the singer chatted about celebrating his birthday, his sixth studio album, and the future.
Entitled “Love,” the album leads with its single “My Love is All I Have,” a song that speaks to Charlie’s overall message. He says:
“I just thought I’d change it up a little bit and do a little something different as far as the groove is concerned. There’s so many records on this particular CD that could be singles, and what I did is I approached it to all my writers and producers; meaning Wirlie Morris, Gregg Pagani, Emile from The Insomniax, I told all these guys, each one of them…’we have to have a single,’ so each one of them was shooting for the single…they didn’t know if their song was making the single or not, so when I went to them and heard the songs and we were writing the songs together I was like ‘no this is not the first single’ so we just kept writing. I made everybody believe that their song…would be one of the singles and we ended up with 12 fantastic records and they all are single potential. When I tell you, every song on my album is single potential for just great R&B.”
Check out the full interview at Singersroom.
Why was Charlie’s wife cut out of the picture? LOL
I think it’s because a good number of Black women support his career. I saw him couple of years ago doing an interview and he hit the ceiling when interviewer said something about him having a white wife. He immediately launched into this tirade (which I’m paraphrasing) about “…if certain women loved me so much then why did they bring me drugs?” and how the white woman was helping him so much. I told everyone I knew and we no longer purchase his music. Aaron Neville is another one…couldn’t wait for his wife to pass to get his Becky.
Mel, really??? Wow, I thought his wife that helped him off drugs was black. You could look at Aaron Neville and tell he was an oreo!
His new CD is AWESOME all the way through.
Melody you’re right about that, I thought it was funny that his wife was excluded from the picture. May be someone wanted to save Charlie from a good ole fashion tongue lashing from his core audience……. black women. lol
Platinum, Charlie really thinks he’s slick and go as far to be seen crooning with Black female artists as a means to maintain his base. When he insinuated that it was Black women who caused him to use drugs and f*ck himself up…I was through with him. The legacies of so many Black men are controlled by whites, but you won’t find many Black men controlling the legacies of white women. The brainwashing is so complete and divisive we will never recover as a people. Once we reach the tipping point and Black women truly come to grips with this reality all thought processes will change towards the other half for sure.