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Personal life. Wright married his first wife, Juliette Gale, in 1964. She had been a singer in one of the early bands that evolved into Pink Floyd. They had two children and divorced in 1982. Wright's second marriage, to Franka, lasted from 1984 to 1994.
24 de abr. de 2024 · African American. race relations. Richard Wright (born September 4, 1908, near Natchez, Mississippi, U.S.—died November 28, 1960, Paris, France) was a novelist and short-story writer who was among the first African American writers to protest white treatment of Blacks, notably in his novel Native Son (1940) and his autobiography ...
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Richard Nathaniel Wright was born in Natchez, Mississippi, on September 4, 1908. His mother was a country school teacher and his father an illiterate (a person who is unable to read or write) sharecropper, a poor farmer who shares land with other farmers.
Wright married his third wife Mildred “Millie” Hobbs (to whom he dedicated his second solo album Broken China) in 1995, with whom he had a son, Ben. Their marriage ended in 2007. In 1996, Wright’s daughter Gala married Guy Pratt, a session musician who has played bass for Pink Floyd and bandmate David Gilmour since Roger Waters’ exit.
He was 65. The cause was cancer, said his publicist, Claire Singers. Mr. Wright was a founding member of Pink Floyd, and his spacious, somber, enveloping keyboards, backing vocals and eerie ...
Richard Wright was an English musician, songwriter and singer, best known as the keyboardist of the rock band, ‘Pink Floyd’. Read this biography to learn more about his childhood, profile, life and timeline.
15 de set. de 2008 · Robert Booth. Mon 15 Sep 2008 19.01 EDT. Richard Wright, keyboard player and founding member of Pink Floyd, died yesterday at the age of 65 of cancer. Wright's most famous composition was...
