Carl Wilson Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Carl Wilson Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Carl Dean Wilson (December 21, 1946 â€" February 6, 1998) was an

American musician, singer, and songwriter who co-founded the Beach

Boys. He is best remembered as their lead guitarist, as the younger

brother of bandmates Brian and Dennis Wilson, and as the group's de

facto leader in the early 1970s. He was also the band's musical

director on stage from 1965 until his death.Influenced by the guitar

playing of Chuck Berry and the Ventures, Wilson's initial role in the

group was that of lead guitarist and backing vocals, but he performed

lead vocals on several of their later hits, including "God Only Knows"

(1966), "Good Vibrations" (1966), and "Kokomo" (1988). Unlike other

members of the band, he often played alongside the studio musicians

employed during the group's critical and commercial peak in the mid

1960s. After Brian's reduced involvement with the group, Carl produced

the bulk of their albums between 20/20 (1969) and Holland (1973),

where the production was nominally credited to "the Beach Boys".

Concurrently, he spent several years challenging his draft status as a

conscientious objector.During the 1980s, Wilson attempted to launch a

solo career, releasing the albums Carl Wilson (1981) and Young Blood

(1983). In the 1990s, he recorded material with Gerry Beckley and

Robert Lamm, later released for the posthumous album Like a Brother

(2000). He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a

member of the Beach Boys in 1988. Wilson was also a member of the

Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness, a religious corporation. He

died, aged 51, of lung cancer in 1998.Carl Dean Wilson was born the

youngest of the three Wilson boys in Hawthorne, California, the

youngest son of Audree Neva (née Korthof) and Murry Gage Wilson. From

his pre-teens he practiced harmony vocals under the guidance of his

brother Brian, who often sang in the family music room with his mother

and brothers. Inspired by country star Spade Cooley, at the age of 12,

Carl asked his parents to buy him a guitar, for which he took some

lessons. In 1982, Carl remembered from this time: "The kid across the

street, David Marks, was taking guitar lessons from John Maus, so I

started, too. David and I were about 12 and John was only three years

older, but we thought he was a shit-hot guitarist. John and his sister

Judy did fraternity gigs together as a duo. Later John moved to

England and became one of the Walker Brothers. ... He showed me some

fingerpicking techniques and strumming stuff that I still use. When I

play a solo, he's still there." While Brian perfected the band's vocal

style and keyboard base, Carl's Chuck Berry-esque guitar became an

early Beach Boys trademark. While in high school, Carl also studied

saxophone.
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