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Tom Wright has established himself as one of Georgia’s finest engineers and producers. The former studio owner is considered an industry jack-of-all-trades who knows the music business like the back of his hand and has the credits to prove it. Wright has been involved with recording projects for artists as diverse as Peabo Bryson, Prince, Cameo, Black Sabbath, Sheila E. and the Georgia Satellites.

As a teenager, Wright left Atlanta and began his career on the road for a Memphis-based drummer. He returned to Atlanta’s club scene, booking bands on a part-time basis while he worked in other professions. But music called, and in the early ‘60s he built Atlanta’s first 16 track studio in a music store at North DeKalb Shopping Center (one of three he owned) and began working with names such as Bill Lowery, Ray Whitley and the Tams.

Several years later he sold the stores and moved to the Cheshire Sound studio on Faulkner Road and expanded it to 24 tracks. In the early ‘70s he added a second 24 track room, making Cheshire the first dual 24 track facility in the Southeast. Wright has also worked with Mick Jagger, Robert Plant and the Police on their albums recorded live at Atlanta’s now defunct Omni, as well as with L.A. Reid at LaFace Records. Most recently, Wright has been the Director of Operations for National Events in Atlanta. This Washington, D.C.-based company which opened in 1980 supplies sound and lighting equipment for performers around the world.

This inventive Georgian has two other distinctions. First, his musical “sound alikes,” which are hit records recorded by musicians other than the original artists that are strikingly similar in sound. In a five-year span he cut over 3,500 such songs. Second, the Wright Microphone is the underground favorite of recording artists. Wright has designed microphones for some of the biggest names in broadcasting including Turner and ABC.

For the past five years Tom Wright has been responsible for the sound, staging, and lighting for the Georgy Award Show attended by nearly 1,500 people and broadcast to over 400,000 homes on Georgia Public Television.

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