Michelle Wright

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Michelle Wright (born July 1, 1961 in Chatham, Ontario) is a Canadian country music artist. She is one of the country’s most widely recognized and awarded female country singers of the ’90s, winning the Canadian Country Music Awards (CCMA) Fans’ Choice Entertainer Of The Year Award twice in 1993 & 1995.
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 “Take It Like a Man” at #10 and “He Would Be Sixteen” at #31.
Michelle Wright began recording her debut album, Do Right By Me in 1985. She released it in 1988 on Savannah Records. The same year, Reba McEntire recorded the title track and included it on her self-titled album, Reba, along with the songs “I Wish I Were Only Lonely” and “New Fool At An Old Game.” Reba’s version of “New Fool At An Old Game” reached #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. Michelle also recorded “Rock Me Gently,” originally written and recorded by Andy Kim in 1974, and included it on her debut album. Signed to Arista Records in 1990, Michelle had her first American country top 40 hit with “New Kind of Love” from her second album, Michelle Wright.She followed up with her most successful album, Now and Then, in 1992. The first single, “Take It Like a Man,” was her first Billboard top 10 hit and the video reached #1 on Country Music Television (CMT).

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  • cbecrad

    Not sure why I've never listened to her before. I definitely remember her name, but I guess I just never checked her out for whatever reason. Very nice deep, smooth voice. Kind of a combination of Anne Murray and k.d. Lang (also both Canadian hmmm) and maybe even a little bit of Cher.

    9 Mar 2012 Reply
  • LarkCGN

    Wonderful singer with a great husky voice!

    27 Apr 2007 Reply