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Famed record executive Tim Dubois was filling the roster for the Arista/Nashville label he was slated to launch when he took notice of Canadian Michelle Wright’s musical appeal and her burgeoning success in her home country. Dubois signed her, brought her to Nashville, and, in 1990, they released her first U.S. album, Michelle Wright. American audiences responded immediately and enthusiastically to "that girl singer from up north with the snow in her videos," and her first single, "New Kind Of Love," became her first Top Thirty American hit.

In 1992, Arista released Now & Then, which produced a total of six singles, including "One Time Around," "Guitar Talk," "He Would Be Sixteen," and the song that changed everything, "Take It Like A Man." "Take It Like A Man" was released in February of 1992. In less than a year, Michelle became the first Canadian‐born artist in the modern era of country music to have a Top Ten hit in America, a Number One video on CMT‐USA (also for "Take It Like A Man"), and to win a major U.S. music industry award (the Academy of Country Music Top New Female Vocalist award in 1992). The song also catapulted Michelle to superstardom, earning 12 music industry awards, including the 1993 Canadian Country Music Association Fans' Choice Entertainer Of The Year and double-platinum status for Now & Then that same year.

The career that followed is one that many artists dream of having. She has walked to podiums in music centers like Los Angeles and Toronto to accept more than forty major awards, including her 2011 induction into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame. A total of twelve album releases have sold millions of copies and produced twenty‐five Top Ten radio hits. Michelle enjoys an international career that has seen her grace concert stages across North America, Europe, Africa, South America, Australia, and Asia.

In August 2022, BFD/Audium Nashville released Wright’s tenth studio project, Milestone. Working with producer Bob Funk (the husband of one of the newest inductees into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame, Patricia Conroy), she recorded nine brand new songs, including the autobiographical lead single, “Small Town.” The follow-up single, co-written with her friend Adam Wakefield (who also appears in the song’s music video), lays bare the misery of surviving the end of a relationship. Wright first met Wakefield when he joined her road band before he moved on to pursue his own musical career.

Milestone showcases the distinctive musical style that has been the hallmark of Wright’s career. One of the highlights of the new release is her new recording of the classic “Take It Like A Man.” Calls went out to the studio players from the original session. Drummer Lonnie Wilson, guitar players Brent Mason and Biff Watson, and Bruce Bouton, who created the signature guitar lick on his Weissenborn, returned to the studio for the new recording.
In response to overwhelming fan demand, BFD/Audium Nashville reissued a series of remastered Michelle Wright recordings, each originally released on the Savannah Records imprint, back into the marketplace. The first in the series, The Wright Songs: An Acoustic Evening With Michelle Wright, which includes 17 songs recorded live on tour, was released on December 8, 2023. Remastered versions of Do Right By Me, Everything And More, and Strong followed. The final release in the series hit stores in time for the 2024 holiday season. A Wright Christmas & More featured three newly recorded songs added to the original 12 tracks on A Wright Christmas.

Michelle continues to perform an average of 65 live shows each year, and beginning in late 2023, she crisscrossed Canada, co-headlining The Great Canadian Roadtrip with fellow member of the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame, Jason McCoy, and multi-award-winning country artists Doc Walker. The tour continued through the fall of 2025, with shows and special events, including singing the classic “Snowbird” on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry House at a recent concert honoring the great Anne Murray, which rounded out the schedule. 2025 ended with the release of “Let’s Make Memories For Christmas,” co-written with Victoria Shaw and the late Jeannie Seely. The track received heavy airplay on terrestrial radio and multiple streaming platforms throughout the holiday season. With plans for more touring with her own band, including bringing back her fan favorite Christmas concert series, more dates on The Great Canadian Roadtrip, and returning to the studio with producer Bob Funk to work on a new project, Michelle Wright is not slowing down. “I love what I do. Singing, songwriting, touring, the fans, the excitement, the adventure, the camaraderie with the musician and crew, and everything in between. 2026 is shaping up to be another year full of all of the above…or full of all of this and more. I can’t wait.”