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Bryan Andrew Wilson is an incomparable American song stylist specializing in a fusion of inspirational messages and R&B rhythms that he calls Spiritual Soul. In the USA, he's clocked a half dozen Billboard chart hits such as the piano ballad "Turning Away" and the dance track "This Time" in the last six years.
A Danville, Illinois native (birthplace to actor Dick Van Dyke and Jazz great Bobby Short), Wilson grew up singing in church. He was signed as a gospel artist to blues label Malaco Records when he was ten years old. His first big hit was his dramatic solo on the Mississippi Children's Choir's 1995 smash, "His Eye is on the Sparrow." During his tenure there, he was produced by music legends such as John P. Kee, Walter Hawkins, Kirk Franklin and Frederick Knight. He recorded the 1996 Dove and Stellar Award nominated album "Bryan's Songs" which featured the radio hits "Don't Let Me Miss Heaven" and "Blessed Assurance." After his final Malaco album, 1999's "Growing Up"; Wilson left the music business to attend college. He graduated from Claflin University and then did master's study work at Princeton Theological Seminary.
With his education completed, Wilson returned to music in 2008 and launched his own record label, Bryan's Songs. For the first-time, he wrote or co-wrote all of the material that would comprise the "A Second Coming" album. The songs "My Soul Boasts in the Lord" and "Change in Me" received the most radio airplay. He followed up with a string of stand-alone radio singles such as "Everybody Clap Your Hands" in 2010 and "Expect You Now" in 2012. His 2014 album, "The One Percent," produced four Billboard chart singles such as "Turning Away," "Faithful God," "I Put You First" and "With Every Beat of My Heart."
In 2019, Wilson had his first Top 20 Smooth Jazz radio hit with the love song, "Only You," which featured Jazz star Jacob Webb's Next Paradigm Collective. Wilson is currently working on an album of R&B love songs that he plans to release in 2021.
