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Charlie Wilson | |
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Birth name | Charles Kent Wilson |
Also known as | Uncle Charlie |
Born | Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S. | January 29, 1953
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Years active | 1972–present |
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Website | charliewilsonmusic |
Charles Kent Wilson (born January 29, 1953), also known as Uncle Charlie, is an American singer, musician, songwriter, and the former lead vocalist of The Gap Band. As a solo artist Wilson has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards and 11 NAACP Image Awards (including two wins), received a 2009 Soul Train Icon Award, and was a recipient of a BMI Icon Award in 2005. In 2009 and 2020, he was named Billboard magazine's No. 1 Adult R&B Artist, and his song "There Goes My Baby"[1] was named the No. 1 Urban Adult Song for 2009 in Billboard.
On June 30, 2013, BET honored Wilson with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Wilson is the national spokesman of the Prostate Cancer Foundation, where there is a Creativity Award in his name. The organization donates hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to cancer research across the United States.
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