From The Best Of Gap Band Genre:Funk / Soul Style:Funk, Disco The Gap Band is a U.S. disco, funk and soul music group who rose to fame during the 1970s and 1980s with their heavily-charged dance anthems and their sentimental and ethereal love songs. Comprising brothers Charlie, Ronnie and Robert Wilson, the band first formed as the Greenwood, Archer and Pine Street Band in 1967 in their hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The group shortened its name to The Gap Band. Members: Charlie Wilson, James Macon, Robert Wilson, Ronnie Wilson, Val Young