The youngest of seven children, Betty Wright (born December 21st, 1953 in Miami,
Florida) first went on stage at the age of two with her siblings in a gospel
group called Echoes Of Joy. They sang together from the mid-1950s until the
early 1960s, with Wright taking lead vocals on some recorded tracks before being
signed as a solo artist to record the singles “Thank You Baby” and “Paralysed”
when she was 12. It gained her much local attention and she made her first
album, My First Time Around, at 14, achieving her first hit “Girls Can't Do What
Guys Do” soon afterwards. Another hi...