Raised in Kansas City, Missouri, Wild studied music privately from the age of four, also studying during high school with Professor Herb Six at the University of Missouri at Kansas City Conservatory of Music, and pianists Jocelyn Rector, Verna Brinkley Boyer, and Steve Miller. After four years of service in the US Navy, Wild focused on his music career, paying his dues in over a dozen blues, pop, and rock bands during the '70s and '80s.

From 1980 through 1984, Chuck played keyboards and electronic bass in the popular Capitol Records '80s group Missing Persons. From 1987 to 1991, as a staff songwriter for Lorimar Telepictures and Warner/Chappell Music, he co-wrote the song You're My One and Only with the late Marti Sharron, a #1 hit in Europe for singer Jennifer Rush.

In 1987, Wild co-composed music with Michael Hoenig for Lorimar's Emmy-winning ABC-TV series Max Headroom. In 1992, his first composition for two pianos, Los Angeles Fantasy, was premiered by Zita Carno and Gloria Cheng at the Bing Theater in Los Angeles. The same year, Chuck co-scored the Academy Award winning documentary film The Panama Deception.

Since 1988, Wild has lent his studio talents to many world class projects, among them Michael Jackson's HIStory album, Paula Abdul's Forever Your Girl, two early albums and an EP with Missing Persons, songwriting & studio work with Earth Wind & Fire's Philip Bailey, studio work for Frank Zappa, and many other artists.

Beginning in 1988, Chuck turned his efforts towards sedative ultra-slow music, designed to alleviate his own stress and help induce deep relaxation. He founded Chuck Wild Records that year, which from 1994 to 2004 distributed Liquid Mind albums. In 2004, as the label outgrew Chuck's time availability, he signed an artist and licensing agreement with his friends Terence Yallop and Karen Kael, owners of Real Music, an independent label whose mission  is to spread relaxing and healing music throughout the world. Chuck's Liquid Mind albums have charted on the Billboard new age sales charts since 2006, also charting since early 2007 on the US iTunes new age charts as well.

In 2016, Chuck and his long time friend and collaborator producer/composer/singer Seven Whitfield recorded an EP under the artist name Beautiful Music Machine, Soundtrack Of The Inner World and One True Thing. The music is cinematic, emotional, relaxing, and is available for streaming on Pandora and all major sites, and for download at Amazon.com and iTunes.