He's the only man in music history to have played with the two biggest record sellers of all time! Michael Jackson and Mick Fleetwood both saw Gregg Wright's guitar genius and quickly hired him for their tours and albums. Audiences from Monterey to Serbia have witnessed him bring that same skill and intensity to his live shows as leader of the awesomely tight Gregg Wright Blues Band. But Wright says he is hungry for more . . . "I've always wanted my own band. I put every ounce of my musical soul and experience into putting on a show no one will forget!"

Gregg Wright got his first guitar while attending junior high school in Wichita Falls, Texas. He began playing in bands in high school around the Washington, D.C. area, where his father, a career military man, was stationed. He began his professional career on the U.S. Southern circuit in the mid-1970's, playing years of one-nighters.

Opening shows for Blues legends Albert King, Freddie King and many others, Wright learned the Blues game from the Masters. “I worked around greatness!” says Gregg. “Albert and Freddie encouraged me to keep pushing and I learned a helluva lot from watching and listening to them!” Following 1980's move to Los Angeles, Wright become a top session guitarist winning awards, doing albums and tours with many of Pop music's elite.

Blues Matters magazine says of Wright's latest CD "King of the Rockin’ Blues!"; "This album places Gregg Wright in the top echelons of the great blues guitarists!" Outstanding live performances have earned him critical raves and an international audience. Gregg Wright is rapidly becoming this era's great Blues guitar star, consolidating his reputation

(photo: Gregg Wright @ the Monterey Bay Blues Festival, by Michael M. Cohen/hustlepix.com)