“Ronnie Wilson was a genius with creating, producing, and playing the flugelhorn, Trumpet, keyboards, and singing music,” Wilson’s widow writes
Ronnie Wilson, one of the founding members of R&B and funk group The Gap Band, has died. He was 73 years old. The news was confirmed by Wilson’s wife, Linda Boulware-Wilson on Facebook on Tuesday, with a series of photos and a loving tribute to her husband, one of three Wilson brothers who headed the group in the 1970s and ’80s and produced hits like “You Dropped a Bomb on Me.