Michelle Wright was born on July 1,1961 and is a Canadian country music artist.
23 Facts About Michelle Wright
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Michelle Wright 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.
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In 2011, Wright was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame.
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Michelle Wright was born on July 1,1961 in Chatham, Ontario.
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Michelle Wright grew up in the small nearby town of Merlin where her parents were both local music performers.
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In 1985, while performing with her band, Michelle Wright signed a record deal with Savannah Records.
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That year, 1990, Michelle Wright was awarded Female Artist of the Year by the Canadian Country Music Association.
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When in Nashville, Michelle Wright began to record her third album, Now and Then, released in May 1992.
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Michelle Wright appeared 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.
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Also in 1993, Michelle Wright won the Fans' Choice Award from Canadian Country Music Association, which she would win in 1995.
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In 1994, Michelle Wright released the first single from her upcoming album, "One Good Man", which became her fourth number one single in Canada; but it didn't reach the top 40 in the United States.
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The album was released in Europe after a Michelle Wright completed a successful tour in mid-1994.
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In early 1995, Michelle Wright embarked on a 40-city tour in Canada, which at that time was the most extensive tour in the history of country music in Canada.
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Michelle 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".
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In 2004, Michelle Wright started her annual Christmas tour, Dreaming of a Michelle Wright Christmas.
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In June 2006, Michelle Wright returned to country music by releasing her first new album in four years, Everything and More in Canada.
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Michelle Wright released a new single, "Another Good Day," to Canadian country radio on April 24,2012.
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Michelle Wright released a new single entitled "Strong" to radio in April 2013.
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In 2015, Michelle Wright signed with Chuck Thompson, President of the Nashville-based Thompson Entertainment Group, for management.
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For 2019, Navigator released Michelle Wright's recording of the holiday classic "Silver Bells," produced by fellow Canadian Bob Funk, to launch the A Michelle Wright Christmas: 2019 with concert dates across Alberta and Ontario.
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In 2011, Michelle Wright was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame at a special gala dinner and award ceremony in Hamilton, Ontario.
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Michelle Wright has been acknowledged within the collections of the National Music Centre in Calgary, Alberta since 2014.
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Michelle Wright appeared as a country music star in an episode in Season 4 of the Canadian TV series Due South.