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- Can I Play?
- We Suffered Much
- Too Much Soul
- Buddy the Teddy Learns the Joy of Giving
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Cynthia "Cindy" Leigh Wilson is a singer, songwriter, and a founding member of new wave rock band The B-52s. The B-52's were formed when Wilson, alongside her older brother and guitarist Ricky, organist and vocalist Kate Pierson, drummer and percussionist Keith Strickland, and vocalist Fred Schneider played an impromptu musical jam session after sharing a tropical Flaming Volcano drink at a local Chinese restaurant. They later played their first concert in 1977 at a Valentine's Day party for the
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Wilson
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Athens
- Sibling
- Ricky Wilson
- Occupation
- songwriter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- new wave
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- Cindy Wilson Lovebox.jpg
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- name in native language
- Cynthia Wilson
- date of birth
- 1957-02-28
- start of work period
- 1976-00-00
- Commons category
- Cindy Wilson
- birth name
- Cynthia Leigh Wilson
- pseudonym
- Cindy Wilson
- copyright representative
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
- member of
- The B-52's
- writing language
- English language
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