{"id":803577,"date":"2020-01-29T03:14:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T10:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=944773"},"modified":"2020-01-29T03:14:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T10:14:17","slug":"watch-charlie-wilson-perform-forever-valentine-on-kimmel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-charlie-wilson-perform-forever-valentine-on-kimmel\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Charlie Wilson Perform \u2018Forever Valentine\u2019 on \u2018Kimmel\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-29-at-10.13.14-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/charlie-wilson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_charlie-wilson\" data-tag=\"charlie-wilson\">Charlie Wilson<\/a> appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jimmy-kimmel-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jimmy-kimmel-live\" data-tag=\"jimmy-kimmel-live\">Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/a> to perform his new single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bruno-mars-charlie-wilson-forever-valentine-song-938755\/\">\u201cForever Valentine.\u201d<\/a> The soulful performance featured two back-up dancers and some moody, romance-themed lighting, with Wilson taking the stage without his collaborator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bruno-mars\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bruno-mars\" data-tag=\"bruno-mars\">Bruno Mars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson and Mars teamed up for the sultry R&amp;B number earlier this month. Mars provided back-up vocals and co-produced the song with his production team the Stereotypes and D\u2019Mile. The team co-wrote the song with Wilson, Micah Powell and Seth Reger, and James Fauntleroy lent his voice to the track as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForever Valentine\u201d marks Wilson\u2019s first new solo music since the release of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/rb-veteran-charlie-wilson-talks-four-decades-of-chart-success-109901\/\">2017 album,&nbsp;<i>In It To Win It<\/i><\/a>. Over the past few years, the singer has teamed up with numerous artists, including Snoop Dogg, Kanye West and Tyler, the Creator.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/record-labels\/8547971\/charlie-wilson-bruno-mars-love-letter-fans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><i>Billboard<\/i><\/a>, Wilson discussed joining forces with Mars, noting \u201cWe talked about the song\u2019s vibe for a while, put a chorus down and then didn\u2019t see each other for a while. Then we ended up on the road together. We\u2019d sing every day at lunch time as we further hashed out the song.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wilson also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/grammys-2020-tyler-the-creator-charlie-wilson-941383\/\">performed at the Grammys<\/a> on Sunday night alongside Tyler, the Creator and Boyz II Men.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/charlie-wilson-forever-valentine-kimmel-944773\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Wilson appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to perform his new single \u201cForever Valentine.\u201d The soulful performance featured two back-up dancers and some moody, romance-themed lighting, with Wilson taking the stage without his collaborator Bruno Mars. Wilson and Mars teamed up for the sultry R&amp;B number earlier this month. Mars provided back-up vocals and co-produced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-24 08:44:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}