The Gap Band

The Gap BandThe Gap Band was founded by Ronnie Wilson in 1967 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and comprised of multi-instrumentalist brothers Ronnie Wilson s Pentecostal church in Tulsa. There, their mother was the churchs pianist, and the boys sang every Sunday before their fathers sermon. Ronnie, the oldest, started the group when he was fourteen and eventually recruited his younger brothers to play in the band, which they named after streets in the heart of Tulsas historic African American business distr...