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CHELY WRIGHT
Richell Rene "Chely" Wright (born October 25, 1970) is an American country music artist and, starting in 2010, gay rights activist. On the strength of her debut album in 1994, the Academy of Country Music (ACM) named her Top New Female Vocalist in 1995. Wright's first Top 40 country hit came in 1997 with "Shut Up and Drive". Two years later, her fourth album yielded her first number one single, the title track, "Single White Female". Overall, Wright has released seven studio albums on various labels, and has charted more than fifteen singles on the country charts. As of May 2010, Wright's previous eight albums had sold over 1,000,000 copies in the United States. In May 2010, Wright became the first major country music performer to publicly come out as gay. In television appearances and an autobiography, she cited among her reasons for publicizing her homosexuality a concern with bullying and hate crimes toward gays, particularly gay teenagers, and the damage to her life caused by "lying and hiding".
As a songwriter she has written songs that have been recorded by Brad Paisley, Richard Marx, Indigo Girls, Mindy Smith and Clay Walker, among them Walker's top ten hit, "I Can't Sleep" that she won a BMI Award for. On May 4, 2010, Wright released both her memoir of being a closeted lesbian, Like Me, and her first album of new songs since 2005, Lifted Off the Ground.
Track Listing: 1. Back of the Bottom Drawer, 2. Everything, 3. Love Lets Go - (Home Studio Demo), 4. Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll - (Studio Demo), 5. If I Were Jackie - (Home Studio Demo), 6. Scars - (Home Studio Demo)
Disc 0: No track list available Disc 1: Broken Heavenly Days Hang Out in Your Heart Notes to the Coroner Snow Globe Like Me That Train Damn Liar Wish Me Away Object of Your Rejection Shadows of Doubt
Track Listing: Never Love You Enough Horoscope Not As In Love Deep Down Low Jezebel One Night In Las Vegas While I Was Waiting What If We Fly Wouldn't It Be Cool Her Love Didn't Listen For The Long Run
Country music artist Chely Wright dropped a bomb in May 2010: simultaneously she released a new record, LIFTED OFF THE GROUND; published this memoir; and publicly came out in People Magazine. There are very few publicly gay celebrities, particularly in Nashville, but in LIKE ME, Wright admits to years of in-the-closet lies, to herself and to her long-term boyfriend Brad Paisley. Wright, however, also discusses her musical career, from her early days at the Grand Ole Opry, to winning awards, hitting the top of the charts, and crafting countless cherished songs for herself and other singers.
Chely Wright, singer, songwriter, country music star, writes in this moving, telling memoir about her life and her career; about growing up in America's heartland, the youngest of three children; about barely remembering a time when she didn't know she was different. She writes about her parents, putting down roots in their twenties in the farming town of Wellsville, Kansas, Old Glory flying atop the poles on the town's manicured lawns, and being raised to believe that hard work, honesty, and determination would take her far. She writes of making up her mind at a young age to become a country music star, knowing then that her feelings and crushes on girls were "sinful" and hoping and praying that she would somehow be "fixed." ("Dear God, please don't let me be gay. I promise not to lie. I promise not to steal. I promise to always believe in you. Please take it away.") We see her, high school homecoming queen, heading out on her own at seventeen and landing a job as a featured vocalist on the Ozark Jubilee (the show that started Brenda Lee, Red Foley, and Porter Wagoner), being cast in Country Music U.S.A, doing four live shows a day, and-after only a few months in Nashville-her dream coming true, performing on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry. She describes writing and singing her own songs for producers who'd discovered and recorded the likes of Reba McEntire, Shania Twain, and Toby Keith, who heard in her music something special and signed her to a record contract, releasing her first album and sending her out on the road on her first bus tour. She writes of sacrificing all for a shot at success that would come a couple of years later with her first hit single, "Shut Up And Drive" . her songs (from her fourth album, Single White Female ) climbing the Billboard chart for twenty-nine weeks, hitting the #1 spot. She writes about the friends she made along the way-Vince Gill, Brad Paisley, and others-writing songs, recording and touring together, some of the friendships developing into romantic attachments that did not end happily. Keeping the truth of who she was clutched deep inside, trying to ignore it in a world she longed to be a part of-and now was-a world in which country music stars had never been, could not be, openly gay. She writes of the very real prospect of losing everything she'd worked so hard to create. doing her best to have a real life-her best not good enough. And in the face of everything she did to keep herself afloat, she writes about how the vortex of success and hiding who she was took its toll: her life, a tangled mess she didn't see coming, didn't want to; and, finally, finding the guts to untangle herself from the image of the country music star she'd become, an image
Track Listing: 1. Single White Female, 2. She Went Out for Cigarettes, 3. It Was, 4. Unknown, 5. Love That We Lost, The, 6. Fire, The, 7. Picket Fences, 8. Some Kind of Somethin', 9. Rubbin' It In, 10. Why Do I Still Want You
Track Listing: 1. Shut Up and Drive, 2. He's a Good Ole Boy, 3. Till I Was Loved by You, 4. I Love You Enough to Let You Go, 5. Sea of Cowboy Hats, 6. Listenin' to the Radio, 7. Love That We Lost, The, 8. Just Another Heartache, 9. I Already Do, 10. Feelin' Single and Seein' Double, 11. Single White Female, 12. It Was, 13. Picket Fences, 14. She Went out for Cigarettes, 15. Never Love You Enough, 16. Jezebel, 17. Back of the Bottom Drawer, 18. Bumper of My S.U.V, The
Track Listing: 1. Listenin' to the Radio, 2. Love That We Lost, The, 3. Heart Shaped World, 4. Love He Left Behind, The, 5. Right in the Middle of It, 6. What I Learned From Loving You, 7. Alligator Purse, 8. Other Woman, The, 9. Day One, 10. It's Not Too Late, 11. Gotta Get Good at Givin' Again
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