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By Jordan Moreau
Betty Wright, a soul and R&B singer best known for her ’70s hit “Clean Up Woman,” has died. She was 66.
Wright died at her Miami home on Sunday from cancer, according to Billboard.
Born Bessie Regina Norris, Wright adopted her stage name when she was just a kid. With her siblings, she began singing in a gospel group, called the Echoes of Joy, at just two years old. They released an album in 1956, when she was three.
Wright switched from gospel to R&B at 11 years old and began
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Betty Wright, a Grammy-winning soul singer and songwriter known for influential hits such as "Clean Up Woman" and "Where is the Love," died at age 66 at her home in Miami on Sunday. Steve Greenberg of S-Curve Records told the New York Times Wright had been diagnosed with cancer in the fall.
Betty Wright passes away at 66.
In her nearly 50-year chart career, R&B legend Betty Wright stretched across generations with a soul, funk and disco catalog that made her one of the genre's most consistent hitmakers in the 1970s and early 1980s, and, in later years, as a frequently sampled presence in hits by Beyoncé, DJ Khaled and others.The singer-songwriter, born Bessie Norris, died at age 66 of cancer in Miami.Wright's Billboard chart career began on Aug.