But it was in the 1980s that the group's distinctive electro-funk style would come to define the era's increasingly synth-heavy R&B sound. The Gap Band released its debut album, Magicians Holiday, in 1974. Ronnie would develop into an accomplished multi-instrumentalist, contributing keyboards, horns and percussion in addition to vocals on several of the band's albums. The brothers grew up with a love of music, raised by a music teacher mother and a preacher father. The name was inspired by three streets in their hometown - Greenwood, Archer and Pine - that had defined the "Black Wall Street" district destroyed in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Wilson formed The Gap Band in the early 1970s in Tulsa, Okla., with his brothers Charlie and Robert Wilson. "Ronnie Wilson was a genius with creating, producing, and playing the flugelhorn, trumpet, keyboards, and singing music, from childhood to his early seventies." "The love of my life was called home this morning," Wilson's wife, Linda Boulware-Wilson, wrote in a Nov. He was 73 years old, The Associated Press reports. It was certified 11 times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.Ronnie Wilson, founding member of the R&B group The Gap Band, has died. Nearly forty years later, “Uptown Funk” debuted as the lead single from Ronson’s fourth studio album, Uptown Special.
The song reached No.4 on the US Billboard R&B chart. “Oops Upside Your Head” was released by The Gap Band in 1979 under their album The Gap Band II.
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They are also seeking compensatory damages for the breach of contract, plus a 9% interest per year from 2015.
The heirs of the two Gap Band members claim that BMG’s breach of their 2015 agreement caused the estates in excess of $75,000 in monetary damages. “By acquiring Minder, BMG is obligated, by both law and contract, to account for and pay to Robert Wilson and Ronnie Wilson all income received from the “Uptown Funk” musical composition,” claims the lawsuit. The acquisition included Minder’s rights in The Gap Band. “īMG acquired London-based independent music publisher Minder Music and its catalog in July 2015. The lawsuit, filed in a Manhattan court on January 12, claims that BMG “has failed and refused to pay Plaintiffs or account to them for royalties they are obligated to pay Plaintiffs pursuant to a written contract as co-writers of Uptown Funk. (collectively the ‘Uptown Funk Parties’) whereby the Uptown Funk Parties assigned 3.4% of the copyright in Uptown Funk to Ronnie Wilson and 3.4% to Robert Wilson as compensation for incorporating the Original Composition into Uptown Funk”.
The lawsuit reads in part, “On March 31, 2015, Minder Music entered into a written agreement with Defendant BMG, Universal Music Corp., Sony/ATV Songs LLC, and Imagem C.V. In addition, Nicholas Williams ( Trinidad James) and Devon Gallaspy received credits for using a sample of “All Gold Everything” by Trinidad James. They joined the six co-writers already credited on the song: Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars, Jeff Bhasker and Philip Lawrence. The Gap Band brothers, Charlie, Ronnie, and Robert Wilson, wrote the 1979 song, “I Don’t Believe You Want to Get Up and Dance (Oops Upside Your Head), and were added as co-writers of “Uptown Funk,” along with producers Rudolph Taylor and Lonnie Simmons in 2015. NEW YORK (CelebrityAccess) – BMG Rights Management is being sued by heirs of The Gap Band members Robert and Ronnie Wilson over alleged unpaid royalties for the Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars’ 2014 hit song, “Uptown Funk.”
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