| Summary: | Music director and conductor Benjamin Wright was born on July 11, 1946 in Greenville, Mississippi. Wright attended the Chicago Conservatory of Music and received his Ph.D. from the Pentecostal Bible College in Tuskegee, Alabama. After high school, Wright embarked on his first major musical tour with rhythm and blues icon Ted Taylor until he was drafted into the U.S. Air Force. After Wright's honorable discharge from the military, he worked for several years with Bobby Moore and the Rhythm Aces. In 1969, Wright worked for musical arrangers like Charles Stepney, Gene Barge, Donny Hathaway, and Richard Evans. In 1975, Wright moved to Los Angeles and became the musical director for The Temptations, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Aretha Franklin, and Barry White, and in 1979, he acted as the string arranger for Michael Jackson's solo album, Off the Wall. Wright did arrangements on Outkast and Justin Timberlake's Grammy-winning albums Speakerboxxx/The Love Below and Justified respectively.
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