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Richell Rene "Chely" Wright is an American country singer and gay rights advocate with an estimated net worth of $9 million. The Kansas City-born singer and songwriter had a passion for music at a very young age, her love for music grew when she started taking piano lessons around nine years old. At the age of fourteen, she started her own group called "The County Line".
Upon moving to Nashville, her career flourished more when she started songwriting in the 1990s and eventually release her debut album "Woman in the Moon" in 1994. That same year, Academy of Country Music named her Top New Female Vocalist in 1995. "Shut Up and Drive" is her first Country Music hit. She has written her personal memoir in an autobiographical book called Like Me: Confessions of a Heart and Country Singer.
Earnings & Financial Data
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Date |
Category |
Description |
Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
|
2018 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the extended play Santa Will Find You (approximately 1.2 thousand copies sold) |
$1,560 |
|
2016 |
Record Sales |
First week record sales of the album I Am the Rain (approximately 4.1 thousand copies sold) |
$5,330 |
|
2010 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album Lifted Off the Ground (approximately 6 thousand copies sold) |
$7,800 |
|
2000 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album Days In Avalon with American singer and songwriter Richard Marx (approximately 32,391 copies sold) |
$42,110 |
|
1999 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album Single White Female (approximately 500 thousand copies sold) |
$650,000 |