Sandra Wright

Vermont-based blues and soul singer Sandra Wright began singing gospel in her indigenous Memphis at age 4. She majored in music at Tennessee Condition School and after earning a local skill competition, she got an give from the Country wide Black Opera Firm to become listed on them on the Western european tour. But she also concurrently received an provide to become listed on a Nashville R&B group, the Canned Souls. She had taken the last mentioned and became a member of them on the highway for another 3 years. The group was called Cashbox magazine’s “Beginners selected to click in 1969-70” because of their single, “Amazing.” That group split in 1971, and Wright spent another 17 years executing in clubs about Nashville. She also documented many singles for Truth Information, a subsidiary of Stax. She also sang on many radio and Television jingles throughout her amount of time in Nashville, and in 1986, she became a member of the Nashville Minstrel Players. In 1988, she performed her one-woman play/tribute to Bessie Smith on the Chattanooga Music Celebration. By 1990, she was functioning as the business lead vocalist for another Nashville R&B group, Bordello, departing for half of a calendar year to open up for Clarence “Gatemouth” Dark brown. After her touring with Dark brown, Wright produced her very own group and toured the united states. The Sandra Wright Music group documented their debut in 1992 and afterwards that season relocated to Vermont. Her 1995 record Tremble You Down can be on the Hipshake Information label. Wright is constantly on the tour with her blues and spirit group and in addition tours using a jazz trio from her house in Vermont.