Michelle Wright Biography, Age, Height & Husband

Michelle Wright Biography (Age, Height, Weight, Husband, Family, Career & More)

Michelle Wright (born July 1, 1961) is a Canadian country music performer. She is one of the nation’s most highly known and honoured female country singers of the 1990s, having twice won the Canadian Country Music Association’s Fans’ Choice Award (1993 and 1995). Wright was inducted into Canada’s Country Music Hall of Fame in 2011.

Wright’s primary success has come from her native Canada, where she has charted more than twenty-five singles, including six Number One hits: “Take It Like a Man,” “One Time Around,” “Guitar Talk,” “One Good Man,” “Nobody’s Girl,” and “Crank My Tractor.”

She had also commercial success in the United States in the 1990s, reaching the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts with “Take It Like a Man” at No. 10, “He Would Be Sixteen” at No. 31, and “New Kind of Love” at No. 32.

Personal Details

Physical Appearance

Personal Life (Family, Friends, Boyfriends, Children)

Early Life

Michelle Wright was born in Chatham, Ontario on July 1, 1961. Wright grew up in the nearby town of Merlin, where her parents were both musicians. He joined a local band in 1980, when she was in college studying counselling for the mentally ill, and performed with them until 1983.

Wright formed her own band that year. Until 1988, she performed with her own band. Wright signed a record deal with Savannah Records in 1985 while performing with her band. The following year, she released her debut single, “I Want to Count on You,” which charted at No. 48 on Canada’s RPM Country Tracks.

Do Right by Me, Wright’s debut album, was released in 1988 and yielded seven more singles, including Wright’s cover of Andy Kim’s 1974 hit “Rock Me Gently,” which peaked at No. 7 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart. The success of the album in Canada led to a record deal with Arista Nashville. Wright rose to prominence as one of the label’s marquee artists.

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Career

Wright’s debut American song, “New Kind of Love,” was released in April 1990 and became her first “Top Five” success in Canada, as well as reaching at No. 32 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks list in the United States. Michelle Wright, her second studio album, was released in July 1990. Wright was recruited as an opening act on Kenny Rogers’ 1991 tour to promote the record. In Canada, the album was a big hit.

The Canadian Country Music Association named Wright Female Artist of the Year in 1990. The Canadian Country Music Association honoured her the following year with Album of the Year for Michelle Wright, Single of the Year for “New Kind of Love,” and Female Artist of the Year.

Wright moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1991 to focus more on her profession after the success of her album Michelle Wright and hit “New Kind of Love.” While in Nashville, Wright started work on her third album, Now and Then, which was released in May 1992.

The album’s first single, “Take It Like a Man,” became an immediate smash, hitting No. 1 on the RPM Country Tracks list in Canada and No. 10 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in the United States. In Canada, the song reached No. 18 on the adult contemporary charts. In late 1992, the Canadian Country Music Association named the song “Single of the Year.”

The album garnered Wright the Academy of Country Music’s Top New Female Vocalist award in 1993. She sang “Take It Like a Man” and the Mary Chapin Carpenter song “The Hard Way” alongside numerous other performers, including Carpenter, on the CBS television show Women of Country.

Now and Then went on to release six additional songs, including the Canadian chart-topping singles “One Time Around” and “Guitar Talk.” The album also included the track “He Would Be Sixteen,” which charted at No. 31 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks list in the United States and No. 3 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart. The Canadian Country Music Association named it Single of the Year in 1993.

Wright also received the Canadian Country Music Association’s Fans’ Choice Award in 1993, which she would repeat in 1995.

In 1994, Wright released the first single from her new album, “One Good Man,” which earned her fourth number one song in Canada but did not chart in the United States. Wright’s fourth album, The Reasons Why, was released in Canada in September 1994.

The album’s release in the United States was postponed and finally cancelled. The CD was also released in Europe after Wright’s successful tour in mid-1994. Wright went on a 40-city tour in Canada in early 1995, which was the most comprehensive tour in Canadian country music history at the time.

Wright released her fifth album, For Me It’s You, in August 1996, after the release of the first single, “Nobody’s Girl,” which hit No. 1 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks list and No. 57 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. Wright’s first album to be released in the United States in four years.

The album went on to be a hit in Canada, with three Top Five singles: “Crank My Tractor,” “The Answer Is Yes,” and “What Love Looks Like.” In the United States, the album was a flop. Wright remarked in a 1997 interview with Jam! that she was “extremely upset” and “not thrilled with what [US radio] did with this album.”

Wright received the C.F. Martin Humanitarian Award from the Canadian Country Music Association in 1997 for her international work with the Special Olympics, her successful fundraising efforts for St. Joseph’s Hospital in Chatham, Ontario, where she was born, and her support for the Manitoba flood relief fund.

Wright returned to US radio in 1999, when her 1997 duet with pianist Jim Brickman was broadcast. The song, “Your Love,” flopped at country radio but delivered Wright her first American adult contemporary success, peaking at No. 19 on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks list. Despite the song’s popularity on AC radio, it would be Wright’s last charting single in the United States.

Wright’s first greatest hits CD, The Greatest Hits Collection, was released in Canada in October 1999. The album includes two new songs, “I Surrender” and “When I Found You,” both of which charted in the Top Ten on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks list. Arista Nashville published the American version of her 1999 greatest hits CD in the United States in 2000. The album’s track listing differed from the Canadian version. Wright’s last album with Arista Nashville.

Wright was signed to RCA Records/ViK. Recordings in 2002. Shut Up and Kiss Me, her sixth studio album, was released in June 2002. The album featured Wright in a more pop-oriented approach than her prior efforts. Wright co-authored eight of the album’s twelve tracks and recorded songs by popular composers such as Shelly Peiken, who composed pop artist Christina Aguilera’s 1999 smash “What a Girl Wants.” Shut Up and Kiss Me also included a more pop-oriented version of her 2000 song “I Surrender.” This version was utilised for the song’s music video and pop radio release.

Wright launched her annual Christmas tour, Dreaming of a Wright Christmas, in 2004. A year later, Wright signed with Icon Records, and in October 2005, she released her debut Christmas album, A Wright Christmas in Canada. The album included eleven Christmas song covers and one new song, “I Know Santa’s Been Here,” penned by Canadian country singer Patricia Conroy. The song was released as the album’s first single in December 2005. A Wright Christmas was published digitally in the United States in 2007 and in Europe in 2008.

Facts

• Michelle Wright was born in the country of Canada.
• Michelle Wright was born under the sign of Cancer.
• In 2011, she was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame.
• Her father was a member of a country band, and her mother sang with the Reflections.

Michelle Wright Biography (Age, Height, Weight, Husband, Family, Career & More)