Kai Wright

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819 appearances 18 recordings 7 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 6 Jul

Kai Wright’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 18 in all, peaking in May 2026 with 13.

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And he starts heading down this road.

So, 1963, he moves to New York City with $10 in his pocket.

He's got a dollar and a dream.

And he starts performing in the Greenwich Village scene.

And I don't know how much you know about that scene from the early 60s.

That's right.

It's this intimate place.

And, you know, Bob Dylan, Woody Allen, Miles Davis, like John Coltrane, all these people are performing in these little clubs.

The Village Gate is like one of the big ones.

So Richard Pryor gets booked at the Village Gate on one of his first nights.

He's opening for Nina Simone.

Wow.

I love thinking of, like, young Richard Pryor through Nina Simone's eyes.

She's talking about he is so scared, right?

Like, to get up on that stage that apparently, she says, he shook like he had malaria.

Right, right.

That the man shook like he had malaria.

So she says to get him up on stage, she would rock him like a baby.

Like, put her arms around him and just rock him till he calmed down.

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