Rochelle Renee (Chely) Wright (born October 25 1970 in Kansas City, Missouri), is an American Country Music singer, who released her debut album in 1994. Although she received an ACM award for Top New Female Vocalist that same year, none of her initial songs made any impact on the charts; her first Top 40 country hit, "Shut Up and Drive", did not chart until 1997. Two years later, she scored her first and only Number One single with "Single White Female"; she has also won a BMI award for co-writing Clay Walker's 2003 single "I Can't Sleep". To date, Wright has recorded a total of seven studio albums, in addition to charting seventeen songs on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. Rise to fame She started singing in bands at age 11 and within a few years had formed her own band, County Line. The summer before her senior year in high school, she went to Branson, Mo., and landed a job in the Ozark Jubilee, the

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