Charlie
Wilson
received
his
star
on
the
Hollywood
Walk
of
Fame,
with
collaborators
like
Snoop
Dogg
attending
the
ceremony
honoring
him.
For
Charlie
Wilson,
the
road
to
being
an
R&B
legend
has
been
a
long
and
eventful
one.
Another
milestone
in
that
journey
occurred
on
Monday
(January
29)
as
he
was
honored
with
a
star
on
the
Hollywood
Walk
of
Fame.
The
71-year-old
lead
singer
of
The
Gap
Band
reminisced
over
a
moment
in
his
past
when
he
first
arrived
in
Los
Angeles
while
addressing
the
crowd
at
the
ceremony.
“But
I
was
walking
in
front
of
Grauman’s
Chinese
Theatre,
and
I
was
trying
to
put
my
hands
in
the
hands
on
the
sidewalk.
I
was
like,
‘Wow,
what
if
I
can
get
this
one
day?’,
Wilson
said.
“Some
woman
walking
by
said,
‘That’s
not
impossible.’
I
said,
‘But
I’m
talking
about
me.’
She
said,
‘Yeah,
and
I’m
telling
you
it’s
not
impossible.
It
might
be
improbable,
but
not
impossible.’
And
now,
here
it
is
—
so
many
years
later,
and
I’m
getting
that
star
on
Hollywood
Boulevard.”
Snoop
Dogg,
a
frequent
collaborator
of
Wilson’s,
praised
the
singer
for
being
a
vault
of
knowledge
for
him.
“That’s
the
treasure
to
me.
because
when
we
get
in
this
industry,
we
don’t
really
have
people
who
we
can
count
on,
who
we
can
go
to.
We
get
so
far
in
this
industry
that
you
lose
contact,”
said
the
rapper.
“So,
to
have
somebody
like
you
to
stay
in
my
life
and
to
be
there
for
me
and
my
family
means
the
world
to
me,
Charlie.”
Charlie
Wilson
underwent
the
highs
of
fame
and
the
lows
–
after
the
success
of
The
Gap
Band,
he
struggled
with
addiction
and
homelessness
for
most
of
the
1990s.
That
decade,
however,
would
see
him
revitalized
through
being
featured
on
numerous
tracks
by
Hip-Hop
artists
and
a
solo
career.
He’d
earn
13
Grammy
Award
nominations,
a
BET
Lifetime
Achievement
Award,
and
a
Soul
Train
Icon
award.
Wilson
also
successfully
overcame
prostate
cancer
in
2008
and
is
now
a
Prostate
Cancer
Foundation
spokesperson.
“I’m
still
here
to
be
able
to
tell
my
story
and
be
able
to
dance
and
sing
and
have
a
good
time
on
the
stage,”
said
Wilson.
“All
the
things
I’ve
ever
prayed
for,
they
all
came
to
pass.
I
really
sort
of
am
Superman
—
I’m
faster
than
all
of
the
speeding
bullets
that
came
after
me.”
—
Photo:
Getty
