Betty Wright
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The youngest of seven children, Betty Wright (born December 21st, 1953 in Miami, Florida) first went on stage at the age of two with her siblings in a gospel group called Echoes Of Joy. They sang together from the mid-1950s until the early 1960s, with Wright taking lead vocals on some recorded tracks before being signed as a solo artist to record the singles âThank You Babyâ and âParalysedâ when she was 12. It gained her much local attention and she made her first album, My First Time Around, at 14, achieving her first hit âGirls Can't Do What Guys Doâ soon afterwards. Another hit, the sensual âPure Loveâ followed when she was 16. At 17 she released âClean Up Womanâ, which became her signature song, an R&B record that achieved crossover success in the pop chart, while her trademark power vocals developed further with âBabysitterâ â her first self-written hit â followed by âLet Me Be Your Lovemakerâ, âWhere Is The Love?â, âShoorah Shoorahâ and the soul ballad âTonight Is The Nightâ. Wright subsequently diversified, duetting with Alice Cooper on âNo Tricksâ in 1978 and touring with Bob Marley; and in 1981 she had a hit with a Stevie Wonder song, âWhat Are You Gonna Do With It?â In 1985 she formed Miss B Records and became the first black woman to score a gold disc on her own label with Mother Wit â notable for the hits âNo Pain No Gainâ and âAfter The Painâ. Doubling up as one third of a prolific record production trio alongside Steve Greenberg and Michael Mangini, she laid the foundations for hits by Tom Jones, Diane Birch and Joss Stone in the early 21st century. She continued to tour and self-release records while collaborating with other artists, including Lil Wayne and Gloria Estefan and later acted as vocal coach for Joss Stone and Jennifer Lopez on the TV series Making The Band. In 2011 she released her first album in 10 years, Betty Wright: The Movie, which included collaborations with Lil Wayne, The Roots and Snoop Dogg. She died peacefully at home on May 10th, 2020 at the age of 66 following a short battle with cancer.
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- Holy Key featuring Betty Wright
- Let Me Be Your Lovemaker
- Clean Up Woman
- In The Middle Of The Game (Don't Change The Play) by The Roots
- Where Is The Love
- Tonight Is The Night
- A Sometime Kind Of Thing
- Why We Do (What We Do)
- Tribute to My Girls
- Brick Grits
- Tired
- Sweet
- U-R-A-Ho (And You Don't Know It)
- Give Me More, More, More
- Fit for a King
- That Man Of Mine
- Second Time In Love
- You Still Depend On Me
- So Long, So Wrong by The Roots
- Wonderful Baby
- If You Abuse My Love (You'll Lose My Love)
- Just Say the Word
- Somebody's Only Love
- You Can't See For Lookin'
