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Lead singer Johnnie Wilder Jr had a tragic story.
Wilder died Saturday, May 13, 2006 at his Dayton, Ohio area home at age 56. The cause of death is unknown.
In 1979, shortly after achieving fame, a car accident left him a quadriplegic. In 1994, Wilder started teaching students about the music industry at Ohio’s Central State University.
Wilder and his brother Keith Wilder were both U.S. Army soldiers stationed in West Germany when they began performing in clubs and bars. After their discharge from the military, they ended up in the UK and hooked up with songwriter/keyboardist Rod Temperton.
Heatwave, as they began calling themselves, toured London clubs while fine-tuning their sound, which mixed the era’s disco music with R&B/funk grooves. The hybrid soon caught the ear of GTO (Epic Records) in 1976, where they were signed and released their first album, “Too Hot to Handle” in the fall.
The album bore their first hit single, “Boogie Nights,” which in turn birthed a popular handjive game among young girls in urban neighborhoods. The album also saw the release of the ultimate slow jam, “Always & Forever.”
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