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Luminous is a fine word to best describe singer, songwriter, producer, entrepreneur, music activist born Bessie Regina Norris.

But millions would come to know her as Betty Wright. She had an irrepressible presence whether in person, through her music, on the phone, anywhere really.

I was proud to call her a friend. I first met her as a teen sensation in the early 1970’s when I was a radio personality at 96.3 WHUR-FM in Washington D.C.

With a radiant smile and an Angela Davis afro like mine, Betty was soaring from her big hit, “Clean Up Woman.” I would go on to play her music (“Tonight is the Night,” “Secretary”, “Where Is the Love?”) for years as I climbed the ranks of radio.

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