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BIO
Since her 1990 Arista/Nashville self-titled debut CD, Michelle
Wright has been drawing rave reviews for her powerful voice and her
distinctive style. Over the subsequent 15 years, she has sold nearly
2 million albums in the United States and Canada and enjoyed an
international career, one that has seen her grace concert stages
across North America and appear in Europe, Africa, South America,
Australia and Asia. Michelle has amassed a total of twenty-five Top
Ten hits in her homeland of Canada and walked to podiums in music
centers like Los Angeles and Toronto to accept more than 30 major
awards. She is the first Canadian-born artist in the modern era of
country music to have a Top Ten hit in America (Take It Like A
Man, 1992) and a Number One video on CMT-USA (Take It Like
A Man, 1992), and to win a major U.S. music industry award
(Academy of Country Music Top New Female Artist, 1993).
Growing up in Merlin, Ontario, a small Canadian farming community, Michelle heard the rhythm & blues and Motown hits coming out of Detroit, just 45 minutes away. But especially she heard the strains of country music, since her parents were both country performers. "My earliest memories of music are singing in the car, or spending the weekend with my father after my parents separated and watching him put on a rhinestone-studded suit to perform in." As a young girl, she tagged along on countless jobs. "We never were a family band, but I got a lot of inspiration and encouragement from my mother. That's where my love of country music really began." After a year of college, studying counseling for the mentally disadvantaged, Michelle set off to tour North America, and by 1988, she had released an album in Canada, DO RIGHT BY ME, on Savannah Records.
The Academy of Country Music named Michelle its Top New Female Vocalist in May, 1993. Michelle catapulted to superstardom in Canada the same year, receiving a total of twelve music industry awards, including the Canadian Country Music Association's Fans' Choice Entertainer Of The Year award and double platinum honours for NOW & THEN. The momentum generated by her next release, THE REASONS WHY (1994), enabled Michelle to headline a triumphant 40-city Canadian concert tour during the first quarter of 1995, at that time the most extensive tour in the history of the country music business in Canada. She hosted the 1995 Canadian Country Music Awards and finished the evening in grand style, receiving her second award as the CCMA's Fans' Choice Entertainer Of The Year.
From her professional beginnings as a teenager to the present
day, Michelle has steadily grown into an entertainer of the
highest rank and has collected a trophy room full of awards to
prove it. Her career is such that opportunity continually
blesses her. Highlights of her recent touring calendar include
her first Australian concerts in 2004, a trip to Afghanistan in
2006 to perform for the Canadian and NATO troops serving there,
and an annual Christmas tour (I’m Dreaming of a Wright
Christmas, now in its fifth year) that is fast becoming a
North American seasonal tradition. Michelle’s songwriting
activity continues to grow: she signed her first writer’s deal
with BMG Music Publishing in Los Angeles in 2001; that same year
she received her first songwriting award (presented by SOCAN to
mark the multi-format Canadian success of her single, I
Surrender); and since then she has co-written many of her
recent hits. The new decade has seen three new CDs from Michelle
generating more sales and more hits: SHUT UP AND
KISS ME, released by Sony/BMG in June, 2002; her
first Christmas album, A WRIGHT CHRISTMAS,
released in Canada on Icon Records in October, 2005 and around
the rest of the world on Savannah Music in November, 2008; and
her first full album of country material in ten years,
EVERYTHING AND MORE, released in Canada on
Icon Records in July, 2006 and around the rest of the world on
Savannah Music in early 2008. Michelle has also begun to
establish herself as a radio personality, launching her first
syndicated radio show, The Women of Country with Michelle
Wright, in April, 2005, and as an author, releasing her
first book, A Year In The Life: The Journals of Michelle
Wright, in May, 2005.
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Tickets
Tickets for the Michelle Wright Concert are $38. No additional taxes or surcharges.
Tickets are availabe at the Bragg Creek Centre Office or by calling 403-949-4277.
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