Australian blues and roots legend Chris Wilson has lost his battle with pancreatic cancer at the age of 62.
Chris announced that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in July 2018.
Chris Wilson is a stalwart of the Australian music scene. One of Chris’ early bands was Sole Twisters with Barry Palmer, who later would join Hunters & Collectors.
Over the years he has contributed to Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls ‘Gossip’, then joined the band for ‘Under The Sun’. Chris guested on Hunters & Collectors ‘What’s A Few Men’, he fronted his own band Crown of Thorns, collaborated with Diesel on the ‘Short Cool Ones’ project and released his solo records.
Wilson Diesel reunited in 2013 for a performance of ‘Short Cool Ones’ at the Sydney Blues & Roots Festival.
Chris was recently immortalised in the documentary ‘Chris Wilson Live at the Continental 23 Years on’, a film by Chris Franklin.
In his life away from the stage, Chris is a school teacher, teaching English to Melbourne’s secondary students.
Chris Wilson performs at Memo Music Hall in St Kilda as part of BOBfest on Friday 22 May 2015
photo by Ros O’Gorman
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