Nigel Wright (musician)

Nigel Wright
Nigel Wright live at Radio DRS-Virus Switzerland
Background information
Birth name	Nigel Wright
Born
Origin	Burnt Mountain, Georgia
Genres	Folk, indie pop, open folk
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter
Instrument(s)	Vocals, guitar, piano, percussion
Labels	www.butterfly-collectors.com
Members	Nigel Wright, Clay Dean, Jamey Merritt
Website	www.nigel-wright-music.com

Nigel Wright (born 14 September 1993) is an American singer-songwriter and musician and who plays guitar, piano and percussion.

At ten years of age, Nigel Wright returned to his birthplace moving from the murky rivers and steamy marshland of the Georgia low county, to a cool, misty mountaintop in the Blueridge North Georgia, United States of America and began his musical career at the age of 16 writing folk music.

Early life

Nigel was born to Whittier and Erin Wright and raised in Jasper Georgia U.S.A.

Biography

The wavey milfoil aquatic plants in his mountain lake struck him as an inversion of the treetops filled with Spanish moss from the coast. Not crediting his observation – milfoil and moss, swaying in currents of water and air, both remote, both beautiful – Nigel felt there was nothing special in gathering the raw material of poetry. After all, having been born into a surround of professional artists, writers, and musicians, Nigel knew an aptitude for the arts alone could not give him a personal outline. Passing over his talent for painting, recoiling from the snap, snap, snap from the fingers of his piano teacher, Nigel still had to admit that he must create something, just so long as it was unique. When he finally, almost reluctantly, picked up his father’s guitar, it was with determination to avoid obvious progressions, standard tunings, and plain chords. If that ambition was too strenuous to start with, his first compositions did show the sixteen-year-old’s exploratory grasp of fresh, solid musical structures. The resulting album, MILLFOIL, Wright recorded at a home studio in 2010. His lyrics, delivered in a voice both resonant and pure, hover in abstraction with an uncanny power to evoke. Finding the distinct and honest in his own voice, Nigel makes his link. Butterfly Collectors discovered Nigel Wright’s work completely by surprise. The Berlin/Haldern label partnered with him for a remastered version of MILLFOIL, released April 2012. The stylistic influences of the singer songwriter are evident in his single “Anna,” but Nigel’s work embodies a larger musical arc. “Clear Eyed Plans,” on the flip side, is his studied leap into bold contrasts and layered voicings.

His lyrics, delivered in a voice both resonant and pure, hover in abstraction with an uncanny power to evoke. The songs flow between dualisms – dynamic and static, sheltered and open, light and dark – while covering feelings linked to growing up and finding a place in the world. This album can be seen as a time capsule of fragility and first impressions for a voice that is now moved on to a new stage.

2012

Nigel played his European premiere at the Haldern Pop Bar, supporting Nada Surf for the occasion of the 20 years anniversary of the German INTRO magazine and he played the One Of A Million Festival at Baden/Switzerland.

In 2012 his debut album Millfoil which he wrote when he was 16 was released by the German independent record label Butterfly Collectors. His single "Anna" was presented as iTunes single of the week in Switzerland.

Nigel Wright will perform at several festivals in Europe, i.e. the "Best Small Festival!" in Europe - Haldern Pop Festival.
In fall he is planning a 5 week headliner show with concerts through Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, BeNeLux, Austria, Switzerland, France and the UK.

Video clips of Nigel Wright are screened on VIVA, MTV and alsotape.tv, Putpat.

Discography

Albums

• Millfoil (2010)
• Millfoil (2012)

Singles

• Anna/Clear Eyed Plans (2012)

External links

• Official website
• Nigel Wright on Facebook
• Label website: Nigel Wright
• DRS Virus,Tina Nägeli
• Radio3FACH

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