PICKETT, WILSON
(*1941)> RHYTHM “N” BLUES SINGER
PICKETT, WILSON. Rhythm “n” blues singer (18 March 1941 in Prattville, Alabama). As a child he sang in a church choir and later he sang with local gospel groups. His family moved to Detroit, Michigan, when he was fifteen and there he began singing with a gospel group, the Violinaires. After some time he was invited to join the Falcons, a rhythm “n” blues group, with whom he sang for four years (1959-1963). By the time he left the Falcons to begin an independent career in New York he was an…