Elder Roma Wilson was born on December 22, 1910, in Hickory Flat, Mississippi, United States and died on October 25, 2018.

He was an American gospel harmonica player and singer.

He served as a clergyman, Wilson discovered he had a degree of notability later in his life, having previously been unaware of interest in his work.

His dad was one-half Muscogee.

Wilson was a self-trained harmonica player in his initial youngsters, utilizing the disposed of instruments of his senior kin (he had five siblings and four sisters).

Wilson built up an abnormal “stifling” style, got from the trouble of requesting sounds from his well-worn instruments.

By the age of fifteen, he was dealing with the railroad.

Wilson later worked at a sawmill.

Wilson wedded at nineteen years old.

He turned into an appointed clergyman in the Pentecostal church in 1929, and he joined the so called Reverend Leon Pinson, who played the guitar, in traversing north Mississippi, both playing and lecturing.

They built up a solid church following.

Wilson moved to Michigan in 1940 and later to Detroit. He proceeded with his melodic advantages, playing on road corners.

In 1948, he played in a record store on Hastings Street in Detroit and was recorded by the shop proprietor.

The proprietor along these lines enabled the tracks to be discharged, and understudies of Wilson’s style of playing were interested.

Wilson was ignorant of the consideration.

Following the demise of his first spouse, he moved back to Mississippi.

He remarried in 1977.

By 1989, after a possible phone call, Wilson reactivated his melodic association with Pinson.

Wilson wound up mindful of worldwide enthusiasm for his chronicles, which he heard without precedent for 1991. Exploiting the prominence, he and Pinson played at music celebrations, including the Chicago Blues Festival and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

In 1994, Wilson was a beneficiary of a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, or, in other words, respect in the society and conventional expressions in the United States.

In that year he likewise recorded the heft of the music included on his presentation collection.

The greater part of tracks on his 1995 LP This Train were recorded when Wilson was in his mid-eighties. The sides contained a blend of solo endeavors, some joined by his significant other or with a congregation choir, and included “Ain’t It a Shame”, “This Train Is a Clean Train”, and “Stunning Grace”.

The collection additionally included six harmonica-ruled pieces accidentally recorded with his kids in 1948.

Wilson was all the while lecturing, singing and playing harmonica in Detroit in 2015, at 104 years old.

Wilson passed away in Detroit, Michigan, at 107 years old.