Since the mid-1980s he has worked as a programmer, keyboard player, session musician, musical arranger, and producer.

Beginning in the mid-1980s,[1] Wright played and performed in various bands and worked for a keyboard and equipment rental company in London, delivering and setting up instruments and studio gear for recording sessions.

During the 1990s, Wright set up his first recording studio in Primrose Hill in London, working with the KLF on their song "America: What Time Is Love?"

1995 saw the beginning of Wright's long working relationship with Simply Red on the album Life.

[4] The resulting album, You Had It Coming, produced the Grammy award-winning track Dirty Mind in the best rock instrumental performance category.