After a stint working as an impersonator at Opryland, Nashville’s country music theme park, Chely Wright got her break when she signed with Mercury/Polygram. The singer had grown up in the Midwest loving country and was fronting the regional act County Line by the time she was in her early teens.
Wright released two albums in the early and mid-nineties through her first label. They produced an Academy of Country Music award for best new female artist, but did little in the way of sales. She moved to MCA Nashville for her third album, 1997’s Let Me In, which started a trend of growing sales figures for the singer. She left MCA after 2001 and gained publicity as an outspoken supporter of military families with “The Bumper of my S.U.V.” The song was released by Dualtone on 2005’s The Metropolitan Hotel.
1994: Woman in the Moon
1996: Right In the Middle of It
1997: Let Me In
1999: Single White Female
2001: Never Love You Enough
2005: The Metropolitan Hotel
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