Born in New Zealand to a Samoan family, Wilson was raised in the Seventh Day Adventist faith in which song was a part of daily life.
[4] He won the Symphony prize in the 2015 IFAC Australian Singing Competition, which gave him a year's free tuition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London starting in 2016.
[1] With Bloomsbury Opera he performed Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro and Guglielmo in Così fan tutte.
[7] His first roles with English National Opera were Schaunard in La bohème and John Shears in the Benjamin Britten operetta Paul Bunyan.
[6] In an April 25 (Anzac Day) 2021 recital at Leeds Town Hall entitled "Maumaraha" (Remembrance), Wilson included two arrangements of the traditional Māori songs Oriori!