Three years ago, Lizz Wright got her big break during a tribute to Billie Holiday. "She walked on stage a virtual unknown," wrote the LA Times critic,"15 minutes later, she walked off a star."
She was signed to Holiday's old label shortly after, made a widely-selling debut CD, and Lizz Wright's star continues to rise. Her new CD "Dreaming Wide Awake" is on the recommended rack at Starbucks and she's being touted as the next Norah Jones.
It's a long way for the daughter of a Holiness Minister and a church organist from Hahira, Georgia. What Lizz Wright learned in the church choir and heard on the radio when her parents were at Bible study have given her a range that keeps expanding. Today, that includes simmering, and spiritual reprisals of songs by Neil Young and Herb Alpert.
