Гэри Малколм Райт (родился 26 апреля 1943 года) - американский певец, автор песен и музыкант, известный cвоими хитами 1976 года "Dream Weaver" & "Love Is Alive" а также своей ролью в обеспечении синтезатора в качестве ведущего инструмента в рок и поп музыке. Его первый альбом, Dream Weaver (1975), пришел после того, как он провел семь лет в Лондоне, будучи членом британской рок группы Spooky Tooth и сольным артистом на A&M Records. В то время как в Англии, он играл на клавишных в альбоме бывшего Beatle Джорджа Харрисона All Things Must Pass (1970), завязалось начало дружбы, которая вдохновила Райта на индийские религиозные темы присущие его последующим песням. Его работы, начиная с конца 1980-х годов были интересными, хотя ни один его пост-1976-релизов не обрели популярности Dream Weaver.
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There is more than one artist using the name Gary Wright.
1) Australian electronic musician contributing to the compilation album Electronic Music University of Melbourne in 1980, on the EMI sublabel EMI Custom Records.
2) Gary Wright (born April 26, 1943 in Creskill, New Jersey, USA) is an American pop and rock singer-songwriter, most famous for his song "Dream Weaver". He was also a member of 'Spooky Tooth' and has worked with 'Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band'.
Gary Wright, a friend of George Harrison, appeared in a TV show at the age of 7. Later he came to Europe to continue studying psychology. In 1967 he joined the band Spooky Tooth as singer and keyboardist. After Spooky Tooth's split in 1974, he continued his solo career culminating in "Dream Weaver". The single peaked at #2 for 3 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1976, and went gold. It was also featured in the Wayne's World film and soundtrack. Later that year, his follow-up single "Love Is Alive" also reached #2 (for 2 weeks). Ronnie Montrose played guitar on the Gary Wright song "Power Of Love" from the Dream Weaver album.
This would be the last significant success Wright would achieve on the pop chart until 1981, when he returned with "Really Wanna Know You, a bouncy, bass-heavy pop song that hit #16. His 1981 song "Comin' Apart" was sampled by Armand van Helden in the 2004 club music anthem "My, My, My".
On June 8, 2010, Gary Wright released Connected, his first new pop/rock album in over 20 years. The album's lead single "Satisfied" has special guest appearances by Ringo Starr on drums, with both Joe Walsh and Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter on guitar. Wright continues to tour, most recently as a member of the supergroup 'Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band'.
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