Anthony “Child Hole” Walker, a member of the long-running sibling R&B/funk act The Hole Band, has reportedly died at 60.
TMZ, which broke the information, claims the artist died from “issues from a neck surgical procedure.”
Walker had been performing with the group GapX, comprised of former Hole Band members. “The Band will miss our pal, brother, and band mate Anthony ‘Child Hole’ Walker,” reads a submit from GapX. “Gone too quickly. We’ll always remember you!!!”
Fashioned in 1967 by brothers Ronnie, Charlie and Robert in Tulsa, Okla., The Hole Band scored a collection of Billboard R&B hits over a 40-year profession throughout which they launched 15 albums and such beloved singles equivalent to “Shake,” “I Don’t Consider You Need to Get Up and Dance (Oops Up Aspect Your Head),” “Early within the Morning,” “Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Harm Me)” and one in every of their highest-charting single, 1982’s No. 31 Scorching 100 funk quantity “You Dropped a Bomb on Me.”
The bros initially named their group the Greenwood Archer Pine Avenue Band, for the three streets within the Black a part of Tulsa that had been attacked by a white mob throughout the 1921 Tulsa Race Bloodbath.
The complete-length debut, Magicians Vacation, arrived in 1974, however they needed to wait till 1979 for a breakthrough with their self-titled album, which featured R&B hits “Shake” and “I’m in Love.” Additionally that 12 months, the group had their first platinum album with Hole Band III, which peaked at No. 16 on the Billboard 200 and yielded the singles “Humpin’” and “Burn Rubber.”
It was at the moment when Wilson joined the group, for which he contributed as a performer, songwriter dancer and choreographer for 23 years.
Anthony joined forces with Charlie Wilson and bandmate Billy Younger on the 1985 venture Billy & Child Hole, and, over time, he collaborated with the likes of Rick James and George Clinton.
Although the Hole Band’s chart success started to wane by the late Eighties and Nineties, their funky songs gained a strong second life throughout that interval once they had been closely sampled and lined by everybody from Snoop Dogg, Nas and Ice Dice to Tyler, the Creator and Mary J. Blige.
Robert Wilson died of a coronary heart assault in 2010, Ronnie died following a stroke in 2021.
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