I remember meeting Bernard outside of my dads business in Queens on Sutphin Blvd., his song "who do you love" was on the radio and it was a big hit. To this day I love that song, it reminds me of my teen years, I wish more of announcement of his death was made so people could pay respects and the radio could give his song some love today.
@CordesvilleTV7 ай бұрын
I play that song on my way to work almost everyday
@sayeedharem46739 ай бұрын
i love this era there was so much musical intelligence . it would have been his birthday this week rip
@mrswright19849 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for honoring Bernard and keeping his memory alive with this video. He is truly loved and missed. 🙏🏽💜
@erniewilliams15027 ай бұрын
God rest your soul brother Wright, we really do miss you brother 😢🙏
@user-bk5xs9sh5s3 ай бұрын
I never heard of Bernard Wright before in my life, thanks to my oldest friends H. E. PHILLIPS
@wjpipkin9 ай бұрын
Bernard was my friend. He was a music mentor for me and would often spend days at a time sleeping on my couch. We would play music and take breaks to play chess. Bernard plays melodica on one track on my album with vocalist, Bettie Cager.
@ArnelleX-us9yo9 ай бұрын
Grew up in Jamaica Queens with Nard..He and my brother were very close friends...He was staying at my brother's place for awhile before he went back to Texas...And then suddenly He was gone..My brother and I and others still can't wrap our heads around it that Nard is no longer physically with us..😢 RIP BRO!!!
@kennethwills85988 ай бұрын
So much unknown Talent never knew he played the bass line on Jamaican Funk at the age of 16 he was a studio genuis his song Who do you Love is one of my favorite songs of all time
@jaythansparksmusic11 ай бұрын
RIP, Bernard Wright. Enjoyed our hang in Japan back in 95 with David Sanborn.
@HerbGrayIII-id1zg9 ай бұрын
I knew the man in his latter years living in downtown Dallas in his skyloft flat apartment just up Akard and Ervay in the bldg with the 7-11 in the back lobby. He was a big time convenience store food eater; and he was also a savant. Brilliant is an understatement - his intentionally unmedicated mental health coping mechanism wa to me the only detriment to his overall character. He was a part of ALL the good music of his own era. Literally ALL of it. Listen to the keyboard loops for Whodini's One Love and Friends (How many of us have them?). All him. Cameo in post production recordings with a full band playing above Larry Blackmon's casio keyboarded demos to hear Bernard give us his full on Van Cliburn medal winning classical piano virtuoso with the melodies of Attack Me with your Love, She's Strange and Back & Forth. Hear Bernard playing with Rufus as a synth mimic on keys to the electric guitaring on Ain't Nobody from the Breakin' sdtk. Chaka Khan is who he has been in front of me calling his muse, his mentor in music, and his auntie. I was astonished to see how well he had known Ms Khan back in her hey-day... but I doubted him a little in my head. Then bam I have a full on earshot of the speakerphone conversation with the legendary diva one night I was with my friend/later liver and Bernard's eventual manager - the late Stormie McLeod, and we both simultaneously had to drop our jaw in shock at what we were hearing. Stormie looked at me immediately and said "He knows literally everybody"... and Bernard Wright was right across the glass coffee table in front of my face as he videocalled Chaka Khan on his slightly outdated Android cellphone, like it was NOTHING, just to ask if she had heard Busta Rhymes verse on Chris Brown's "Look At Me Now"... plus what did the doctor say about her sciatica in her hip, blah blah blah. Hand to God. Bernard Wright was the unheralded greatest musician ever in Dallas history, period. UNT alums like myself should all be able to bring up his exploits and accolades to let others know what kind of music institution our alma mater is. Not just the one Nora Jones was in then got a deal with a label without winning a single award. Bernard has a full trophy case worth of first chair ratings and accompaniment for live orchestral and symphonic arts while a student in UNT Denton. He was modest about his talent (gift/annoinment). He was to me a mentor and elder who imparted wisdom on me to respect the friendship he and Stormie had when you me and her broke up... Bernard was strong defender of his own and loved the ones who stood for him when at his wildest eccentricity and mental liability - and I will never say a bad thing about the man, living or dead now. His fingers are what made him live on in music immortality
@jazzholdouts58969 ай бұрын
I had a gig at Gerald’s in Queens in 1977, and Bernard sat in .Blew the place away..He was like 12 years old. I was fortunate enough to play with Lenny White.On a gig in D.C. , there were 3 keyboard players.Myself ,Bernard ,and the real legend Don Blackmon
@Tiffany-ki4wuАй бұрын
Rih Mr.Bernard Wright. I loved his music 😔🙏🏽
@unboughtunbossed18417 ай бұрын
Mr Wright music was 🔥 🔥 🔥 I still jam Master Rocker. RIP Mr Right 🙏
@KennethBrown-gg5mj6 ай бұрын
Remember when I was in high school bumping who do u love.classic
@BettyFL4 ай бұрын
Yep. Ditto ❣🙏
@Cbb4566 ай бұрын
His memorial service was very nice. My uncle Gary Fritz was doing a remix for an upcoming album he was producing right before his spritual homecoming.
@mychalmitchell3238 ай бұрын
The first 45 I ever bought was "Music Is The Key". So glad I got to know his music.
@ronnieflood8019Ай бұрын
Rip to Mr Bernard Wright
@sevinatenine44449 ай бұрын
WOW YALL,TODAY WOULD HAVE BEEN BERNARD'S 60TH BIRTHDAY.11-16-2023.
@TexasN679 ай бұрын
What a joy to here of his life, far different from most in is class god bless
@DJDARYL9 ай бұрын
This guy was Dope!
@renstarhurst33025 ай бұрын
To all that say they knew Nard...Len, Nard 141st those were the best years...1979-1989 those who know would agree...
@SmoothVisionMedia9 ай бұрын
Never knew LL sampled his song. R.I.P 🙏🏾🕊️
@plugged17 ай бұрын
The song is called Lounging. It says "who do You Love?" in the chorus.
@sevinatenine44449 ай бұрын
R.I.P. MY BROTHA
@shodapad079 ай бұрын
Rest on well sir ❤!
@akataa9 ай бұрын
That one picture looks like Dr. Dre, not Bernard Wright.
@MisterJackson-so9lo9 ай бұрын
It is Dre
@charleswright46876 ай бұрын
My birthday is Nov 17th
@fernandosaunders566111 ай бұрын
🙏🧘🏽♂️❤️🎵
@cwagnermusic5 ай бұрын
Why did they keep showing an early pic of Dr. Dre? Surely you didn't think that was Bernard Wright? lol
@lovedaily18103 ай бұрын
Why are they showing an old pic of Dr. Dre in a dress!?🤔
@user-bk5xs9sh5s3 ай бұрын
Why did they keep showing Dr. Dres' face and not saying his name 😂😂😂