Gary Wright, the singer and keyboardist recognized for the Seventies synthesizer-driven hits “Dream Weaver” and “Love Is Alive,” has died. He was 80.
Wright died Monday at his residence in Palos Verdes Estates, his son Justin Wright instructed TMZ.
Born on April 26, 1943, in New Jersey, Wright labored as a baby actor and at age 7 appeared on the 1949 TV collection Captain Video and His Video Rangers. He additionally labored on TV commercials and starred within the 1954 Broadway musical Fanny.
Wright went to school in New York to check psychology earlier than shifting to Germany to finish his research. In Europe, he met Island Data founder Chris Blackwell, who launched him to musician Mike Harrison within the late ’60s. They fashioned the British rock band Spooky Tooth, which disbanded in 1970.
Wright recorded solo for A&M Data, fashioned the band Wonderwheel and collaborated with different artists, together with enjoying keyboard on George Harrison’s All Issues Should Cross album, launched in 1970. In 1973, Spooky Tooth reunited briefly.
Wright recorded 10 albums throughout his profession, together with The Dream Weaver in 1975, which featured “Dream Weaver” and “Love Is Alive.”
Singer-songwriter Stephen Bishop was amongst those that took to social media to recollect the musician, writing that “Gary’s vibrant character and distinctive expertise made each second collectively really pleasurable. … His legacy will stay on for a few years to return.”
