The Wilsons (country duo)

The Wilsons was a Canadian husband and wife Dave and Kortney Wilson, who were country musicians and television personalities in Nashville, Tennessee.^[1] They are now TV presenters on the HGTV program Masters of Flip, having given up their music careers. They operate a business that flips (buys, renovates and sells) houses, the basis for the television program.^{[2][3][2][4][5]}

History

Dave from Ottawa, Ontario and Kortney from Ayr, Ontario before moving to the US, separately relocated to Nashville and signed solo deals with Lyric Street Records.^[6][7] While neither artist released an album for Lyric Street, Kortney charted two singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in the United States as Kortney Kayle. Kortney also made several appearances on the soap opera One Life to Live.^[6][8]

The pair met and started a family after they were each released from the label in 2003.^[9] They began performing together as The Wilsons in 2006. In 2009, they became the stars of Meet the Wilsons, an eight-part half-hour series directed and edited by Bill Filipiak airing on CMT in Canada.^[10][11] Partial episodes of the show are still airing on YouTube.^[12] The show debuted in the United States in December on CMT with a four episode marathon.

The duo's first single, "Stick Together", was released in August 2009. The Wilsons released their first album, The Wilsons for Open Road Recordings in June 2010.^[10] They later lost their recording deal and turned to renovating and flipping houses in Nashville, and this led to them starring in the reality television series Masters of Flip.^[13][14] The series runs on HGTV in North America but is also shown in numerous other countries.^[15]

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