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Charles Wright’s music is a million dollars worth of memories.With the uprising of hip hop in the 80’s many rap acts lifted chunks of funk from Charles Wright’s wax, including N.W.A., Brand Nubian, Naughty By Nature, Silk Da’ Shocker, A Tribe Called Quest, Gang Starr, and Sean “P. Diddy” Combs.
Express Yourself sold Bit Burger Beer and Algida Ice Cream across the European continent. Basketballs, Los Angeles Lakers showcased Express Yourself at their start-up games, and the NBA featured the soul classic in its 2004 “I Love This Game” television campaign. Kinkos uses Express Yourself in its international marketing strategy; Kohl’s Clothing Stores chose Express Yourself for its “Spring Fashion” theme for an entire season as well. “The Jenny Jones Show” copped it as a theme for an entire season. Express Yourself also provided the theme for both the Democratic National Convention and the 2004 Olympic Games Celebration.
Charles also lays claim to some impressive motion picture soundtrack credits from the pioneering ‘70’s “blaxploitation” classic “Cotton Comes to Harlem” to Queen Latifah’s directorial debut, “The Cookout.” Whenever a film calls for an instantly recognizable slice of the late ‘60’s/early ‘70’s period music, Charles Wright classics have been utilized in pictures such as “Panther” and “The People vs. Larry Flint.” His song "Do Your Thing" set the stage for a chilling plot turn in director Paul Thomas Anderson’s study of the ‘70’s adult film industry, “Boogie Nights.” Most of time, Wright’s Music is used because it just makes audiences feel good. in everything from action movies and comedies like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” to family films like the remake of “The Shaggy Dog” and the Steve Martin series “Cheaper By the Dozen.”
Most recently, Charles Wright has issued the CDs “Going To The Party,” “Music for the Times
We Live In” and his debut Blues album “High Maintenance Woman” on his own A Million $
Worth of Memories Record Label.
