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The Gap Band

The Gap Band was an R&B and funk group formed in 1967 by Charlie (born 1953), Ronnie (born 1948), and Robert (born 1956) Wilson, the sons of a Pentecostal minister. The group first adopted the funk style indelibly associated with them in the early 1970s. Their roots were in the Greenwood, Archer & Pine Street Band, which Ronnie Wilson had formed with Tuck Andress a few years earlier before they took The Gap Band name from a Tulsa intersection. They failed to ignite much interest until LA producer Lonnie Simmons signed them to his Total Experience label and masterminded a more str...