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Jun 5, 2021 · By Courtney Campbell | June 5, 2021. Country singer Chely Wright was an early trailblazer for the LGBTQ community as one of the first artists in country music history to ever publicly come out ...
Chely Wright (born Richell Rene Wright; [a] October 25, 1970) [3] is an American activist, author, diversity officer and country music artist. She initially rose to fame as a commercial country recording artist with several charting singles, including the number one hit, " Single White Female ." She later became known for her role in LGBT ...
Chely Wright: Queer Country Pioneer Looks Back. By James Barker, Staff Writer. Ten years ago, after a string of commercially and critically successful albums, Chely Wright came out as gay. The impact of this courageous gesture cannot be overstated: Wright was the first established country star to come out, putting her career on the line to make ...
Apr 10, 2019 · But, no, Wright hasn’t changed. Instead, a lot of the industry has, however slowly, bit by bit. She sees peers who turned away from her just nine years ago talking about “loving everybody, and...
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Jan 11, 2011 · The Kansas City, Mo. born 39-year-old singer songwriter with the strong Christian background first garnered boot-stomping raves with her 1994 debut album Woman in the Moon, helping Wright nab the ...
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May 5, 2010 · On Monday, country star Chely Wright ("Single White Female") revealed on People.com that she's gay. As she explains in her new autobiography, Like Me, she's known about her sexuality for a long ...
Jun 11, 2001 · Chely Wright knows that Fan Fair week can be one of the most trying in a country singer’s yearly cycle, but she couldn’t be more excited about all that this year’s edition holds for her.
