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The lackluster performance of Private Audition led to increased pressure for the band's next album, Passionworks (1983). Drugs became a factor in the band's work during this time. Wilson recalls: "Everything we did in those years had a white sheen of powder over it. There were only a few people on our crew, or band, who resisted.
The Gap Band was an American R&B and funk band that rose to fame during the 1970s and 1980s. The band consisted of three brothers: Charlie , Ronnie, and Robert Wilson, along with other members; it was named after streets (Greenwood, Archer, and Pine) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] in the historic Greenwood neighborhood in the brothers' hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma .
Wilson's first live album was also issued during this period called The Nancy Wilson Show! (1965), which made positions on the US Billboard 200 and R&B charts. Capitol released 11 more studio albums by Wilson through the 1970s, six of which made the Billboard 200.
Nancy Wilson, who rose to fame in the mid-1960s as a young jazz singer, enjoyed an incredible decades-long career. Nancy Wilson, Grammy winning ‘How Glad I Am’ singer, dies at 81 Skip to main ...
Heart — the pioneering band that melds Nancy Wilson’s shredding guitar with her sister Ann’s powerhouse vocals — is hitting the road this spring and fall for a world tour that Nancy Wilson ...
Since their inception in 1967, the Gap Band has released 16 studio albums, 12 compilation albums and 2 live albums. They released nine self-titled albums (including two of the same name). Each album does not reflect which number they released, only which point it is in the series ( Gap Band IV , for example, is actually their sixth album).
After singing lead in the Gap Band alongside his brothers Ronnie and Robert and reeling off a long string of R&B smashes in the ’70s and ’80s, Wilson spent several years in the early ’90s ...
All the proceeds from 2001's A Nancy Wilson Christmas went to support the work of MCG Jazz. [9] Wilson was the host on NPR's Jazz Profiles, [10] from 1996 to 2005. This series profiled the legends and legacy of jazz through music, interviews and commentary. Wilson and the program were the recipients of the George Foster Peabody Award in 2001. [11]