"Dance and soul music has Wilson Pickett to thank for much of the progression that happened during the 1960s. Pickett released songs like ""Mustang Sally,"" ""In the Midnight Hour"" and ""Land of 1,000 Dances,"" and performed them with such energy and enthusiasm that he could hardly be equaled as a live act. He was born on March 18, 1941 in Prattville, Alabama with 10 older siblings. He started singing in the church at a young age and also took in the musical influence that comes from living in the South. His family moved to Detroit when Pickett was in his teens, which would end up launching his career.Once in the Motor City, Pickett started performing anywhere he could get the chance from multiple groups to street corners. With the group the Falcons, Pickett found his first success in 1962 with a song he wrote, ""I Found a Love."" Two years later, he had a record deal with Atlantic Records. He started recording with Booker T. & the MG's, which would eventually lead to the hit ""In the Midnight Hour."" The song led to a staggering nine albums released in five years, which were filled with some of the most well-known tracks by Pickett.He saw more successes as the 1970s rolled around, but his last major hit of the era was ""Fire and Water,"" which was released in 1972. He continued touring after that into the 1980s, but his legendary attitude starting catching up with him. He was arrested for threatening the major of Englewood, New Jersey, also his neighbor, in the early 1990s and also put on probation for injuring an octogenarian while driving under the influence. Other arrests from this era include cocaine possession and domestic violence. He turned his life around by the late 1990s and even released a new album in 1999. He died in early 2006 from a heart attack."