After making her hit music in the late 80’s and early 90’s, Wright moved to Nashville, Tennessee, which was a big dream for the Country singer fulfilled and where she has lived over the past 20 years.   “Please allow me to say if I may that America coming to Nashville as a Canadian was a big dream of mine and I really appreciated being embraced by Americans and having the chance to have the kind of career that I have had.  When Take It like a Man became a big hit here in America that was pretty awesome,  it was a pretty amazing time.” 

Although Wright grew up in Canada, she lived near Detroit and was influenced by Motown and worked her way through the club scene.  “I came up in the clubs.  I played clubs for ten years, six nights a week from strip joints to chicken wired stages to some wonderful clubs; you name it, right across the spectrum, so there is no doubt that after slugging it out after about ten years that I would be getting the opportunity to record down here in Nashville.  It was fantastic.  I am lucky, lucky, lucky.”

Wright looks ahead to the remainder of the year in support of her new album and touring which is something she does every year.   “For me, the goal would be to support my singes off of my new project, the new album.  Get that album out there and celebrate that and put this tour together and I am doing some summer time touring, some song writer events that I am really excited to be a part of, and doing exactly what it is I do, write songs, record songs, and tour.  I do that every year, you know?”

Wright will be touring Canada from coast to coast with Songs From The Halls.
We will be going coast to coast.  It looks like it is continuing to evolve.  You put a concert tour out there and you find out what venues are available, and who is interested in having a show, and that is sort of an evolving process.  I think we have about 20 dates booked and we hope to book about 40, and the tour is called “Songs from the Halls”. 
The concept is, what I just love, is that my agent and my manager approached me about this in January or so, that since I am the current Hall of Fame member of the Canadian Country Music Awards up in Canada, what about a tour that you could do all of the great hits that I have had through the years and that I also do songs from other artists that are in the Hall of Fame, any hall of fame that has inspired me, and anyone from Anne Murray to Aretha Franklin, and from Merle Haggard to Michael Jackson if I want, you know, so I am really excited about the idea of being able to sing the song “Snowbird” by Anne Murray, oh my gosh, you know. And sing Respect by Aretha Franklin.  I used to do that song when I played the clubs.  So it is going to be called “songs from the halls” and it is going to be all of my hits and this massive hall of fame artists and some from them too, you know? 

Wright is extremely proud of achieving induction into the Hall of Fame, although it was something that she never set out to do.  “There is no doubt that being inducted into the hall of fame is really just so cool and wasn’t something that I had necessarily set my sights on, and I feel to imagine my peers in the industry would want to  vote me into that category really feels good, you know?  That they would respect you enough to choose you, so there is something really that makes you feel good to that your peers respect you enough to do that and it is important enough for some reason that I carry myself in a way that is respectable.  That is what I appreciate.  That has been quite a crowning achievement that it is not that one of the first artists of the modern era I think it was Anne Murray that won top new artist of the year some time ago, and then I came along some 30 years later like that and to win top new artist of the year in America it was thrilling to look out into the audience and Garth Brooks sitting there, And Reba Macintyre and people like that while I was on the stage, it was pretty amazing.  I think it was interesting because I explained something that happened in the beginning of my career as a beautiful moment in something happening, some years later in the Hall of Fame those two moments are very special to me.”

As an artist Wright says the challenges she faces are like everyone else.   “Well, the turf is like everybody, the challenges that I have is staying healthy, and working out and taking care of myself, and taking care of my marriage, you know?  Making sure that I take time to value that relationship, and I also run the household so I have to make sure that the things that need to be taken care of in the home are taken care of.  I sort of have the everyday stresses and demands that anybody else has, you know, and I have to make sure that I take care of those and confront those and don’t procrastinate and then on my professional front my challenges are to make a great record and put a single out that will hopefully do well that will have the repercussions of me being able to continue to make music and continue to tour and sell concert tickets and without a successful record on radio it is hard sometimes to continue with a career.  I mean, I have a fan base that supports me regardless of what is going on, but in order to really continue to keep the fire under this career of mine I face all of those challenges that any artist does where you have to, you know?”

There is no better place to be than in Nashville for Country Music?

I love it.  There is a certain skill that comes with, in order to be a mainstream Country artist there is a certain skill that is required.  You need to recognize what the audience wants to hear.  You can be all kinds of artsy and artistic and be left of the format and that is one thing for a record but I think it is really important to recognize and find your place as an artist how do I communicate because my job is to communicate with the listener and how do I communicate with them in a way that will interest them?   For me quite frankly it is all being authentic, true and being that it is that I am, and trying to express it honestly, but doing it within a certain framework. 

You were involved in doing work in social work?

I did go to college to study social work and work with the socially challenged.  That was my sort of my B plan.  I was at least wise enough to realize there had to be a B plan.  I went on to college and was fascinated by human beings and by our behavior and I was also fascinated by the young adults and the children that I worked with that were mentally challenged, there capacity to learn and love was really beautiful.  I could teach a young girl or boy or adult who had very limited mental skills, I could teach them something and if it was just to throw a ball and throw it back to me, and there would be laughter and fun in that, so that was sort of a chosen career that I had had, and that was sort of my B plan.  As soon as I finished college I went on the road.

Wright enjoys keeping in touch with her fans and communicates through her Facebook page regularly.  You can find her Facebook page at the following link and also keep track of the release of her new album and tour dates.