Jackie Wilson, “The Legacy” starring Bobby Wilson and featuring the talents of Elisa Latrice and Tammi Savoy.

“Jackie Wilson the Legacy” is a show about a son, Bobby Wilson, continuing the musical tradition set forth by his father, Legendary Soul R&B Artist Jackie Wilson and a continuation of that style of Soul music that began in the year of 1959!

Imagine a hot summer night in Harlem New York, Theater, the music was new and no one could stop their bodies from swaying or feet from tapping. A debonair young man in a sharp dressed shark skin tailored suit with diamond cuff links, slides to the mic stand and hit his first note of the newest hit song “Lonely Teardrops”, but wait, it’s not 1959 but today and the man isn’t Jackie Wilson, but his son Bobby Wilson. He follows up with the hits, That’s Why I Love You So, Reet Petite, To Be Loved, Baby Work Out etc… And 75 to 90 minutes later he caps the show with a finale with his dads hit “Your Love Is Lifting Me Higher”. Of course, during the show Bobby spouts out a few of his current hits like “I Get The Sweetest Feeling”, “Right Here Waiting”, and “I Can’t Love You Anymore”.

One has to pinch themselves because of the “IT” factor, this song and dance man apparently inherited from his Legendary Father. He has the moves, the swagger, and the audience in the palm of his hands as his movement through the years of music and beyond air lifts the event to “Higher and Higher”!

Not only is his father Motown Royalty but his father’s first cousin Levi Stubbs and Lawrence Patton of “The Four Tops” all grew up in the same hood, not to mention the penmanship of his songs by Berry Gordy Jr and T. Carlo which happens to be a cousin too. Bobby wasn’t handed this business with a silver spoon but instead he was doing a tribute to The R&B Hit maker, long before he ever knew he was related. His career began in the US Navy, before a medical discharge and singing in a karaoke bar when Peter Hernandez, father of Pop Star Bruno Mars, spotted Bobby and hired him to be on his “Lovenotes Doo Wop Show” in Waikiki. That’s when the bells and whistles went off for Bobby Wilson and he was never the same again.

This show is the Legacy of Jackie Wilson and Bobby Wilson combined.