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Chuck Wansley

Chuck Wansley
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About

Chuck Wansley is a New York-born singer and drummer who started out touring the world at 18 with Up With People, then spent years on the Northeast club circuit before a chance NYC recording session made him a founding member of the electro-hip hop group Warp-9 (Prism Records / Motown). After more than two decades leading his 13-piece L.A. R&B band Chuck Wansley After Hours, he relocated to Prague in 2015, where he now fronts the Czech-American funk outfit The Mother Funkers and appears as a guest vocalist with jazz orchestras across Europe.

2
album with Warp-9 (Prism Records / Motown)
6
hit singles with Warp-9
1.1M+
playback of single "Nunk" on Spotify
20+
work as a conductor in Los Angeles (Chuck Wansley After Hours)

What's new

  • 2026-01

    Chuck Wansley & The Mother Funkers performed on New Year's Eve at the Prague Jazz Dock.

  • 2024-09

    The band Chuck Wansley & The Mother Funkers performed at Jazz Dock in September 2024.

  • 2024-04

    Chuck Wansley & The Mother Funkers performed a concert at Jazz Dock in April 2024.

  • 2018

    Chuck Wansley performed as a solo vocal guest at the St. Petersburg Jazz Festival.

  • 2015

    After more than twenty years in Los Angeles, Wansley moved to Prague, where he focuses on jazz and big band.

Tour

Praha

Tracks

Nunk (New Wave Funk)first single by Warp-9 (1982), breakthrough electro-hip hop hit on Prism Records
Light Years Awaysecond single by Warp-9 (1983), called by Guardian a 'cornerstone of early 80s beatbox afrofuturism'
No Man Is an Islandsingle by Warp-9 for Motown, part of the album Fade In, Fade Out (1986)
It's a Beat Wavedebut album by Warp-9 (1983, Island Records / Prism), sci-fi electro-funk album
Fade In, Fade Outsecond album by Warp-9 (1986, Motown), soul and R&B oriented project

Upcoming · 1

Where they play · 1

Jazz Dock

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