Michelle Wright
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Michelle Wright is a Canadian country music
artist. She is one of the country's most widely recognized and awarded female country singers of the 1990s, winning the Canadian Country Music Association
's Fans' Choice Award twice (1993 and 1995). Brian Ferriman
of Savannah Records
has been her manager for over 20 years.
Wright's primary success has been in her native Canada, where she has charted more than twenty-five singles, including the Number One hits "Take It Like a Man
", "One Time Around
", "Guitar Talk
", "One Good Man
", "Nobody's Girl
" and "Crank My Tractor
". She also had chart success in the United States in the early 1990s, landing in the Top 40 on the Billboard
Hot Country Songs
charts with "New Kind of Love" at #32, "Take It Like a Man" at #10 and "He Would Be Sixteen" at #31.
. Wright grew up in the small Canadian town of Merlin, Ontario
where she took after her parents, who were both local performers. By 1980, when Wright was in college studying counseling for the mentally disadvantaged, she joined a local band with whom she performed until 1983 when she started her own band. She would perform with her own band until 1988. In 1985, while performing with her band, Wright signed a record deal with Savannah Records
. The next year she released her debut single, "I Want to Count on You", which peaked at #48 on the Canadian RPM
Country Tracks chart. Wright's debut album, Do Right By Me
, was issued in 1988 and produced seven more singles including Wright's cover of the 1974 Andy Kim
hit, "Rock Me Gently", which reached #7 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart. The album's success in Canada led to a record contract with Arista Nashville
, becoming one of the label's flagship artists.
chart in the United States. Her second album, Michelle Wright
, was released in July 1990. To support the album, Wright was added as an opening act to Kenny Rogers
1991 tour. The album became a success in Canada and led Wright to be awarded Female Artist of the Year by the Canadian Country Music Association
in 1990. The following year she was awarded Album of the Year for Michelle Wright, Single of the Year for "New Kind of Love", and Female Artist of the Year again by the Canadian Country Music Association.
The failure of the follow-up singles to "New Kind of Love" forced Wright to relocate to Nashville, Tennessee
in 1991 to spend more advancing her career. When in Nashville, Wright began to record her third album, Now and Then
, released in May 1992. The album's first single, "Take It Like a Man
", became an instant hit, reaching #1 in Canada on the RPM Country Tracks chart and #10 in the United States on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. In Canada, the song also crossed over to the adult contemporary charts, peaking at #18. The song received the Single of the Year award from the Canadian Country Music Association in late 1992.
In 1993, the album gave Wright the award for Top New Female Vocalist from the Academy of Country Music
and an appearance on the CBS
television special, Women of Country, where she performed "Take It Like a Man" and the Mary Chapin Carpenter
song "The Hard Way" with several other artists including Carpenter. Now and Then went on to produce six more singles including the Canadian number one hits "One Time Around
" and "Guitar Talk
". The album also contained the single "He Would Be Sixteen", which reached #31 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and #3 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart and was awarded Single of the Year by the Canadian Country Music Association in 1993. Also in 1993, Wright won the Fans' Choice Award from Canadian Country Music Association, which she would also win in 1995.
", which became her fourth number one single in Canada, however it failed to reach the top 40 in the United States. Wright's fourth album, The Reasons Why
, was released in September 1994 in Canada only. The album was also released in Europe after a Wright completed a successful tour in mid-1994. In early 1995, Wright embarked on a 40-city tour in Canada, which at that time the most extensive tour in the history of the country music business in Canada.
In August 1996, Wright released her fifth album, For Me It's You
, following the release of the first single "Nobody's Girl
", which reached #1 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks and #57 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. The album marked Wright's first album to be released in the American market in four years. The album went on to be successful in Canada, producing three top five singles with "Crank My Tractor
", "The Answer Is Yes", and "What Love Looks Like". The album, however, was not a success in the United States and in a 1997 interview with Jam!
, Wright admitted that she was "very disappointed" and "not happy with what they [U.S. radio] did with this album".
During 1997, Wright was awarded the C.F. Martin Humanitarian Award by the Canadian Country Music Association for her international work with the Special Olympics
, her successful fundraising efforts for St. Joseph's Hospital in Chatham, Ontario, the hospital where she was born, and her support for the Manitoba
flood relief fund.
In 1999, U.S. radio welcomed Wright back when her 1997 duet with pianist Jim Brickman
was released to radio. The song, "Your Love", failed at country radio, but gave Wright her only American adult contemporary hit when the song peaked at #19 on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks
chart. Despite the song's success at AC radio, it would be Wright's last charting single in the United States.
In October 1999, Wright's first greatest hits album, The Greatest Hits Collection
, in Canada. The album included two new songs, "I Surrender" and "When I Found You", both of which were top ten hits on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart. In 2000, Arista Nashville released the American version
of her 1999 greatest hits album in the United States. The album contained a different tracklist than the Canadian version.
/ViK. Recordings
, where she returned after a six year hiatus from releasing a new studio album to release her sixth studio album, Shut Up and Kiss Me
, in June 2002. The album took Wright towards a more pop driven direction than her previous work. Wright co-wrote eight of the album's twelve songs and recorded songs by successful songwriters such as Shelly Peiken
, who wrote pop singer Christina Aguilera
's 1999 hit, "What a Girl Wants
". Shut Up and Kiss Me also contained a more pop-oriented version of her 2000 single "I Surrender", this version had been used for the song's music video and pop radio release.
In 2004, Wright started her annual Christmas
tour, Dreaming of a Wright Christmas. A year later Wright signed with Icon Records
and in October 2005, she released her first Christmas album, A Wright Christmas
in Canada. The album featured covers of eleven Christmas song and one new song, "I Know Santa's Been Here", written by Canadian country singer Patricia Conroy
. The song was issued as the album's first single in December 2005. A Wright Christmas was released digitally in the United States 2007 and Europe in 2008.
In June 2006, Wright returned to country music by releasing her first new album in four years, Everything and More
in Canada. In 2007, Everything and More was made available digitally in United States.
In 2011, Michelle will release a 17 track live acoustic album, "The Wright Songs: An Acoustic Evening with Michelle Wright" on November 22. The album features her greatest hits.
. The episode, entitled "Mountie Sings the Blues," centres on the Mountie's attempts to protect Wright's character, Tracy Jenkins, from a stalker. She sings "Nobody's Girl" at the conclusion of the episode.
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
artist. She is one of the country's most widely recognized and awarded female country singers of the 1990s, winning the Canadian Country Music Association
Canadian Country Music Association
The Canadian Country Music Association was founded in 1976 as the Academy of Country Music Entertainment to organize, promote and develop a Canadian country music industry. The association changed its name to the Canadian Country Music Association in 1987.-Awards:The CCMA held the first Canadian...
's Fans' Choice Award twice (1993 and 1995). Brian Ferriman
Brian Ferriman
Brian Ferriman is an artist manager and the president of Savannah Music. His artist roster has included such artists as Michelle Wright, Brenn Hill, The Good Brothers, R.W. Hampton, Gary Fjellgaard, Matt Minglewood, Terry Carisse, One Horse Blue, Anita Perras and Tim Taylor...
of Savannah Records
Savannah Records
Savannah Records, in association with WEA Canada, was a Canadian country music record label established by Brian Ferriman in Toronto, Ontario in 1983.-Artists Who Recorded for Savannah:* Terry Carisse* Gary Fjellgaard* The Good Brothers* Matt Minglewood...
has been her manager for over 20 years.
Wright's primary success has been in her native Canada, where she has charted more than twenty-five singles, including the Number One hits "Take It Like a Man
Take It Like a Man
The Take It Like a Man EP was recorded by rock/blues singer/songwriter Shannon Curfman, and released, for Purdy Records label, in early 2006, as a heads up to her second album, which was due for release in 2007...
", "One Time Around
One Time Around
"One Time Around" is a single by Canadian country music artist Michelle Wright. Released in 1992, it was the second single from her album Now and Then. The song reached #1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in October 1992.-Chart performance:...
", "Guitar Talk
Guitar Talk
"Guitar Talk" is a single by Canadian country music artist Michelle Wright. Released in 1993, it was the sixth single from her album Now and Then. The song reached #1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in January 1994.-Chart performance:...
", "One Good Man
One Good Man
"One Good Man" is a single by Canadian country music artist Michelle Wright. Released in 1994, it was the first single from her album The Reasons Why. The song reached #1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in October 1994.-Chart performance:...
", "Nobody's Girl
Nobody's Girl (song)
"Nobody's Girl" is a single by Canadian country music artist Michelle Wright. Released in 1996, it was the first single from her album For Me It's You. The song reached #1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in August 1996.-Chart performance:...
" and "Crank My Tractor
Crank My Tractor
"Crank My Tractor" is a single by Canadian country music artist Michelle Wright. Released in 1996, it was the second single from her album For Me It's You. The song reached #1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in December 1996.-Chart performance:...
". She also had chart success in the United States in the early 1990s, landing in the Top 40 on the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...
charts with "New Kind of Love" at #32, "Take It Like a Man" at #10 and "He Would Be Sixteen" at #31.
Early life
Michelle Wright was born on July 1, 1961 in Chatham, OntarioChatham, Ontario
Chatham is the largest community in the municipality of Chatham-Kent, Ontario. Formerly serving as the seat of Kent County, the governments of the former city of Chatham, the county of Kent, and its townships were merged into one entity known as the Municipality of Chatham-Kent in 1998.Located on...
. Wright grew up in the small Canadian town of Merlin, Ontario
Merlin, Ontario
Merlin is a small farming community inhabited by 750 residents located in Southwestern Ontario. It lies five kilometres due north off the shores of Lake Erie in the municipality of Chatham-Kent.Merlin is the hometown of country music singer Michelle Wright....
where she took after her parents, who were both local performers. By 1980, when Wright was in college studying counseling for the mentally disadvantaged, she joined a local band with whom she performed until 1983 when she started her own band. She would perform with her own band until 1988. In 1985, while performing with her band, Wright signed a record deal with Savannah Records
Savannah Records
Savannah Records, in association with WEA Canada, was a Canadian country music record label established by Brian Ferriman in Toronto, Ontario in 1983.-Artists Who Recorded for Savannah:* Terry Carisse* Gary Fjellgaard* The Good Brothers* Matt Minglewood...
. The next year she released her debut single, "I Want to Count on You", which peaked at #48 on the Canadian RPM
RPM (magazine)
RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,...
Country Tracks chart. Wright's debut album, Do Right By Me
Do Right By Me
Do Right By Me is the first studio album by Canadian country music artist Michelle Wright, and was released in 1988 on Savannah Records. Three songs from the album, "Do Right By Me," "Wish I Were Only Lonely" and "New Fool At An Old Game", were later recorded by Reba McEntire on her 1988 album Reba...
, was issued in 1988 and produced seven more singles including Wright's cover of the 1974 Andy Kim
Andy Kim
Andrew Youakim, performing as Andy Kim, is a Lebanese Canadian pop rock singer and songwriter. He grew up in Montreal, Quebec in Canada. Kim is known for a number of hit singles that he released in the late 1960s and early 1970s such as "Rock Me Gently", which topped the US singles charts. In 1968,...
hit, "Rock Me Gently", which reached #7 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart. The album's success in Canada led to a record contract with Arista Nashville
Arista Nashville
Arista Nashville is an American record label that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment, operated under the Sony Music Nashville division. Founded in 1989, the label specializes in country music artists, including Alan Jackson, Brooks & Dunn, Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood...
, becoming one of the label's flagship artists.
1990–1993: Breakthrough success
In April 1990, Wright's first American single, "New Kind of Love", was issued and became her first top five hit in Canada, in addition to peaking at #32 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & TracksHot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...
chart in the United States. Her second album, Michelle Wright
Michelle Wright (album)
Michelle Wright is the second studio album by Canadian country music artist Michelle Wright, and was released on July 17, 1990 on Savannah Records...
, was released in July 1990. To support the album, Wright was added as an opening act to Kenny Rogers
Kenny Rogers
Kenneth Donald "Kenny" Rogers is an American singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur...
1991 tour. The album became a success in Canada and led Wright to be awarded Female Artist of the Year by the Canadian Country Music Association
Canadian Country Music Association
The Canadian Country Music Association was founded in 1976 as the Academy of Country Music Entertainment to organize, promote and develop a Canadian country music industry. The association changed its name to the Canadian Country Music Association in 1987.-Awards:The CCMA held the first Canadian...
in 1990. The following year she was awarded Album of the Year for Michelle Wright, Single of the Year for "New Kind of Love", and Female Artist of the Year again by the Canadian Country Music Association.
The failure of the follow-up singles to "New Kind of Love" forced Wright to relocate to Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
in 1991 to spend more advancing her career. When in Nashville, Wright began to record her third album, Now and Then
Now and Then (Michelle Wright album)
Now and Then is the third studio album by Canadian country music artist Michelle Wright, and was released on May 22, 1992 on Arista Records. "Take It Like a Man" is her highest-charting US single at #10 on Hot Country Singles & Tracks.- Track listing :...
, released in May 1992. The album's first single, "Take It Like a Man
Take It Like a Man
The Take It Like a Man EP was recorded by rock/blues singer/songwriter Shannon Curfman, and released, for Purdy Records label, in early 2006, as a heads up to her second album, which was due for release in 2007...
", became an instant hit, reaching #1 in Canada on the RPM Country Tracks chart and #10 in the United States on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. In Canada, the song also crossed over to the adult contemporary charts, peaking at #18. The song received the Single of the Year award from the Canadian Country Music Association in late 1992.
In 1993, the album gave Wright the award for Top New Female Vocalist from the Academy of Country Music
Academy of Country Music
The Academy of Country Music was founded in 1964 in Los Angeles, California as the Country & Western Music Academy. Whereas the Country Music Association, founded in 1958, was based in Nashville, the Academy sought to promote country music in the western states. Among those involved in the...
and an appearance on the CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
television special, Women of Country, where she performed "Take It Like a Man" and the Mary Chapin Carpenter
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Mary Chapin Carpenter is an American folk and country music artist. Carpenter spent several years singing in Washington, D.C. clubs before signing in the late 1980s with Columbia Records, who marketed her as a country singer...
song "The Hard Way" with several other artists including Carpenter. Now and Then went on to produce six more singles including the Canadian number one hits "One Time Around
One Time Around
"One Time Around" is a single by Canadian country music artist Michelle Wright. Released in 1992, it was the second single from her album Now and Then. The song reached #1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in October 1992.-Chart performance:...
" and "Guitar Talk
Guitar Talk
"Guitar Talk" is a single by Canadian country music artist Michelle Wright. Released in 1993, it was the sixth single from her album Now and Then. The song reached #1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in January 1994.-Chart performance:...
". The album also contained the single "He Would Be Sixteen", which reached #31 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and #3 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart and was awarded Single of the Year by the Canadian Country Music Association in 1993. Also in 1993, Wright won the Fans' Choice Award from Canadian Country Music Association, which she would also win in 1995.
1994–1999: Further success
In 1994, Wright released the first single from her upcoming album, "One Good ManOne Good Man
"One Good Man" is a single by Canadian country music artist Michelle Wright. Released in 1994, it was the first single from her album The Reasons Why. The song reached #1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in October 1994.-Chart performance:...
", which became her fourth number one single in Canada, however it failed to reach the top 40 in the United States. Wright's fourth album, The Reasons Why
The Reasons Why (Michelle Wright album)
The Reasons Why is the fourth studio album by Canadian country music singer/songwriter Michelle Wright, and was released on September 1, 1994 on Arista Records...
, was released in September 1994 in Canada only. The album was also released in Europe after a Wright completed a successful tour in mid-1994. In early 1995, Wright embarked on a 40-city tour in Canada, which at that time the most extensive tour in the history of the country music business in Canada.
In August 1996, Wright released her fifth album, For Me It's You
For Me It's You
For Me It's You is the fifth studio album by Canadian country music singer/songwriter Michelle Wright, and was released on August 27, 1996 on Arista Nashville...
, following the release of the first single "Nobody's Girl
Nobody's Girl (song)
"Nobody's Girl" is a single by Canadian country music artist Michelle Wright. Released in 1996, it was the first single from her album For Me It's You. The song reached #1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in August 1996.-Chart performance:...
", which reached #1 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks and #57 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. The album marked Wright's first album to be released in the American market in four years. The album went on to be successful in Canada, producing three top five singles with "Crank My Tractor
Crank My Tractor
"Crank My Tractor" is a single by Canadian country music artist Michelle Wright. Released in 1996, it was the second single from her album For Me It's You. The song reached #1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in December 1996.-Chart performance:...
", "The Answer Is Yes", and "What Love Looks Like". The album, however, was not a success in the United States and in a 1997 interview with Jam!
Jam!
Jam! is a Canadian website, which covers entertainment news. It is part of the CANOE online portal, owned and operated by Quebecor through its Sun Media division....
, Wright admitted that she was "very disappointed" and "not happy with what they [U.S. radio] did with this album".
During 1997, Wright was awarded the C.F. Martin Humanitarian Award by the Canadian Country Music Association for her international work with the Special Olympics
Special Olympics
Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, providing year-round training and competitions to more than 3.1 million athletes in 175 countries....
, her successful fundraising efforts for St. Joseph's Hospital in Chatham, Ontario, the hospital where she was born, and her support for the Manitoba
Manitoba
Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...
flood relief fund.
In 1999, U.S. radio welcomed Wright back when her 1997 duet with pianist Jim Brickman
Jim Brickman
Jim Brickman is an American songwriter and pianist. He has been named the most charted male Adult Contemporary artist to date, with six of his albums receiving Gold and Platinum status. He is known for his solo piano compositions, pop-style instrumentals, and vocal collaborations with artists...
was released to radio. The song, "Your Love", failed at country radio, but gave Wright her only American adult contemporary hit when the song peaked at #19 on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks
Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks
The Adult Contemporary chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States...
chart. Despite the song's success at AC radio, it would be Wright's last charting single in the United States.
In October 1999, Wright's first greatest hits album, The Greatest Hits Collection
The Greatest Hits Collection (Michelle Wright album)
The Greatest Hits Collection is the first greatest hits album by Canadian country music singer/songwriter Michelle Wright, and was released in Canada on November 2, 1999 on Arista Nashville.-Track listing:...
, in Canada. The album included two new songs, "I Surrender" and "When I Found You", both of which were top ten hits on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart. In 2000, Arista Nashville released the American version
Greatest Hits (Michelle Wright album)
Greatest Hits is the greatest hits album released by Canadian country music singer/songwriter Michelle Wright in the United States on January 25, 2000 on Arista Nashville.-Track listing:# "Take It Like a Man" - 3:57...
of her 1999 greatest hits album in the United States. The album contained a different tracklist than the Canadian version.
2000 – present: Success today
In 2002, Wright was transferred to RCA RecordsRCA Records
RCA Records is one of the flagship labels of Sony Music Entertainment. The RCA initials stand for Radio Corporation of America , which was the parent corporation from 1929 to 1985 and a partner from 1985 to 1986.RCA's Canadian unit is Sony's oldest label...
/ViK. Recordings
ViK. Recordings
ViK. Recordings was a Canadian record label that was wholly owned subsidiary of Sony BMG. It began shortly after 1998, when Lisa Zbitnew became president of its owner of BMG in Canada. Its notable artists included: Tom Green, Treble Charger, Jacksoul, Shawn Desman,Rascalz and Keshia Chante...
, where she returned after a six year hiatus from releasing a new studio album to release her sixth studio album, Shut Up and Kiss Me
Shut Up and Kiss Me (album)
Shut Up and Kiss Me is the sixth studio album by Canadian country music singer/songwriter Michelle Wright, and was released on May 28, 2002 on Arista Nashville...
, in June 2002. The album took Wright towards a more pop driven direction than her previous work. Wright co-wrote eight of the album's twelve songs and recorded songs by successful songwriters such as Shelly Peiken
Shelly Peiken
Shelly Peiken is a multi-platinum Grammy nominated songwriter who is best known for her #1 hits "What a Girl Wants" and "Come on Over Baby ".Shelly and Meredith Brooks earned a Grammy nomination for Brooks's hit song "Bitch"....
, who wrote pop singer Christina Aguilera
Christina Aguilera
Christina María Aguilera is an American recording artist and actress. Aguilera first appeared on national television in 1990 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The Mickey Mouse Club from 1993–1994...
's 1999 hit, "What a Girl Wants
What a Girl Wants (song)
"What a Girl Wants" is the second single performed by Christina Aguilera from her self-titled debut album. The song was released on November 28, 1999, which was ten days after Aguilera's nineteenth birthday. The song peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on January 15, 2000 for two weeks,...
". Shut Up and Kiss Me also contained a more pop-oriented version of her 2000 single "I Surrender", this version had been used for the song's music video and pop radio release.
In 2004, Wright started her annual Christmas
Christmas
Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...
tour, Dreaming of a Wright Christmas. A year later Wright signed with Icon Records
Icon Records
Icon Records, in association with Universal Music Group, is a Canadian record label established by Rui Da Silva in 2006 and distributed through Fontana Distribution.-Artists:* Jason Blaine* Mike Callan* Joelle* John Landry* George Jones...
and in October 2005, she released her first Christmas album, A Wright Christmas
A Wright Christmas
A Wright Christmas is the first Christmas album by Canadian country music singer/songwriter Michelle Wright, and was released on October 25, 2005 on Icon Records.-Track listing:...
in Canada. The album featured covers of eleven Christmas song and one new song, "I Know Santa's Been Here", written by Canadian country singer Patricia Conroy
Patricia Conroy
Patricia Conroy is a Canadian country music singer. In her career, she has released five studio albums and a one compilation album. Several of her singles have charted on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart, most notably her number one hits "Somebody's Leavin'" and "What Else Can I Do" from 1994...
. The song was issued as the album's first single in December 2005. A Wright Christmas was released digitally in the United States 2007 and Europe in 2008.
In June 2006, Wright returned to country music by releasing her first new album in four years, Everything and More
Everything and More (Michelle Wright album)
Everything and More is the seventh studio album by Canadian singer Michelle Wright, and was released on July 4, 2006 on Icon Records. The album includes the singles "Everything and More", "Love Me Anyway" and "I've Forgotten You", which was previously a single for American bluegrass singer Rhonda...
in Canada. In 2007, Everything and More was made available digitally in United States.
In 2011, Michelle will release a 17 track live acoustic album, "The Wright Songs: An Acoustic Evening with Michelle Wright" on November 22. The album features her greatest hits.
Other work
Wright appeared as a country music star in an episode in Season 4 of the Canadian TV series Due SouthDue South
Due South is a Canadian crime drama series with elements of comedy. The series was created by Paul Haggis, produced by Alliance Communications, and stars Paul Gross, David Marciano, and latterly Callum Keith Rennie...
. The episode, entitled "Mountie Sings the Blues," centres on the Mountie's attempts to protect Wright's character, Tracy Jenkins, from a stalker. She sings "Nobody's Girl" at the conclusion of the episode.