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Chely Wright Delivers Twin Boys - They're over a month early, but Chely Wright's twins are "thriving" after being delivered on Saturday (May 18) in New York City. Wright and wife Lauren Blitzer weren't expecting until July, but had… Read More

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Chely Wright Expecting Twin Boys

Mar 21, 2013

Country singer Chely Wright revealed that the identical twins she is carrying…

Chely Wright Twins: Singer Reveals Sex of Babies

Mar 15, 2013

Chely Wright will become a first-time mom to identical twin boys.

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Feb 13, 2013

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Chely Wright Is Pregnant With Twins

Jan 31, 2013

Country singer Chely Wright is pregnant with identical twins.

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Richell Rene "Chely" Wright ( born October 25, 1970) is an American country music artist and gay rights activist. On the strength of her debut album in 1994, the Academy of Country Music (ACM) named her Top New Female Vocalist in 1995. Wright's first Top 40 country hit came in 1997 with "Shut Up and Drive". Two years later, her fourth album yielded her first number one single, the title track, "Single White Female". Overall, Wright has released seven studio albums on various labels, and has charted more than fifteen singles on the country charts. As of May 2010, Wright's previous eight albums had sold over 1,000,000 copies in the United States. In May 2010, Wright became the first major country music performer to publicly come out as gay. In television appearances and an autobiography, she cited among her reasons for publicizing her homosexuality a concern with bullying and hate crimes toward gays, particularly gay teenagers, and the damage to her life caused by "lying and hiding". As a songwriter she has written songs that have been recorded by Brad Paisley, Richard Marx, Indigo Girls, Mindy Smith and Clay Walker, among them Walker's top ten hit, "I Can't Sleep" that won her a BMI award. On May 4, 2010, Wright released both her memoir of being a closeted lesbian, ''Like Me'', and her first album of new songs since 2005, ''Lifted Off the Ground''.

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