Out country music singer-songwriter
Chely Wright was recently asked by Rolling Stone Country
whether her upcoming album will be gay.
The 44-year-old Wright, who is raising
twin boys George Samuel and Everett Joseph with her wife, Lauren
Blitzer-Wright, turned to Kickstarter to fund her next project.
Wright raised $250,000 during the
45-day campaign, enough money to produce a new album and a music
video.
“It went gangbusters,” Wright
said. “It was the sixth most successful music campaign in
Kickstarter's history and the number one most successful campaign in
country music in Kickstarter history. I say that, really, to just
brag on my fans and the enthusiasm they have.”
“I was blown away [by the support],”
she said.
When asked whether the record will be
gay, Wright explained that “it will be gay by nature that I am gay.
But I won't be singing about anything different than I've ever sung
about before. The way I made records and wrote songs was perhaps the
only way I ever felt authentic in my life. Even through being
closeted, when I sang Single White Female … I'm trying to
tell a great story.”
“Most of us in America in country
music, whether we're gay, straight or bisexual, we really are about
family and faith and country,” she added.