Chely Wright
Richell Rene "Chely" Wright (/ˈʃɛli ˈraɪt/; born October 25, 1970) is an American country music singer and 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 a 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 and 19 singles released had sold over 1,500,000 copies in the United States. In May 2010, Wright became one of the first major country music performers to publicly come out as lesbian. 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".
Podcasts:
Chely Wright
ALBUMS
- Lifted Off the Ground released: 2010
- The Ultimate Collection released: 2008
- The Definitive Collection released: 2007
- The Metropolitan Hotel released: 2005
- Never Love You Enough released: 2001
- Single White Female released: 1999
- Let Me In released: 1997
- Right in the Middle of It released: 1996
- Woman in the Moon released: 1994
- 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Chely Wright released:
The Ultimate Collection
Released 2008- Sea of Cowboy Hats
- Till I Was Loved by You
- He's a Good Ole Boy
- Till All Her Tears Are Dry
- Love That We Lost
- Listenin' to the Radio
- Alligator Purse
- Just Another Heartache
- I Already Do
- Let Me In
- Shut Up and Drive
- Feelin Single Seein Double
- Single White Female
- It Was
- Fire
- She Went Out for Cigarettes
- One Night in Las Vegas
- Deep Down Low
- Never Love You Enough
- Jezebel
The Definitive Collection
Released 2007- Shut Up and Drive
- He's a Good Ole Boy
- Till I Was Loved by You
- I Love You Enough to Let You Go
- Sea of Cowboy Hats
- Listenin' to the Radio
- The Love That We Lost
- Just Another Heartache
- I Already Do
- Feelin' Single and Seein' Double
- Single White Female
- It Was
- Picket Fences
- She Went Out for Cigarettes
- Never Love You Enough
- Jezebel
- Back of the Bottom Drawer
- The Bumper of My S.U.V.
-
by Chely Wright
Right In The Middle Of It
by: Chely WrightThey're either fallin' in or they're fallin' out
That's the only kind of love you ever hear about
But we're somewhere in between
And it oughta go down in history
'Cause love is alive with you and me
And it's a real good place to be
'Cause we're right in the middle of it
Yeah, right in the middle of it
There's no fireworks and no big bouquets
No hot romance on display
But we don't think about breakin' up
We're right in the middle of love
Yeah, all our friends wonder how we made it last
We say we're lookin' at tomorrow and not the past
No, they're never gonna make a movie 'bout us
'Cause we don't have a Hollywood love
The credits roll when a movie is through
But there ain't gonna be an end to me and you
We're just right in the middle of love