GREG WRIGHT BIO
Greg Wright is an American music producer, arranger, songwriter, and virtuoso composer. Wright has worked on and has released over 100 recordings; won five platinum and gold albums, which currently hang on his wall, as well as a “Jazz and Blues Society - Living Legend Award “. He is considered a music genius and has played thousands of concerts worldwide and has been music director for most of these artists in a career lasting more than 6 decades.
EARLY YEARS
Greg Wright was born in Los Angeles, California.
It would be Wright’s mother who would initiate his introduction and membership into The Robert Mitchell Boys’ Choir. It would be at the early age of 9, with the Robert Mitchell Boys’ Choir, Wright would begin his travels to other countries performing and eventually getting step-out roles with principal actors. Over the years more than 600 boys between the ages of approximately 8-16 passed through the choir and were cast in over 100 films and television shows, which lasted to the end of the 60s. Wright, while performing with the choir at The Vatican, in Rome, was given the opportunity to create the mass’ service music for Pope John Paul IV.
LATER YEARS
Greg Wright as Music Producer under contract for Motown Records, produced artist, like, “Marvin Gaye”,
“Natalie Cole; Thelma Houston, “Switch”, and “Diana Ross, and was music arranger and director for many of them.
His career totally locked, bolted and bona fide supports the exchange that he is known as one of the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of music production.
Through his dexterity, expertise, ability, proficiency, and know-how Wright has adopted a variety of musical directions in a six-decade career that has kept him afloat and at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in mostly the soul, jazz and neo-soul genres that encompasses the soul of music.
Wright’s cd, “A Moment of Your Time” is a compilation of masterful originals produced, written, and arranged by Greg Wright showcasing a host of remarkable musicians and makes the cd a popular choice for music enthusiasts across the globe.
Directing all his attention to gifted musicians and entertainers everywhere by helping direct the compass of music through the domain of love. Helping to shore up what it does and what it can do for those that devote themselves to it through the love of doing it. He has developed a reputation as a technically brilliant and melodically inventive producer, writer, arranger, musician, and pianist, and as so Greg Wright is known by those who know of him as the height of the musician’s musician, and the essence of what it is all about.