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Soxx and the Blue Jeans, and also had some hits under her own name. The oldest of five children, her father Joe was a Pentecostal minister and her mother Ellen was a housewife. In the Wrights moved to San Antonio after Joe was offered a church there. Ellen almost immediately went to work cleaning houses upon arriving in Texas leaving Darlene the acting head of the family.

She was the one who had to make sure everyone got to school and minded the house until Ellen returned in the evening. About a year after arriving in Texas the Wrights were having a hard time making ends meet and the children were sent to live with various relatives.

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When she wasn't in school, she was scrubbing stoves, cleaning blinds, and mopping floors. Edna who to young and to sickly finally wrote her parents "You have to come get us. They're treating Darlene like a slave. The Wailers, While attending Wheatley Junior High in San Antonio Darlene began joining glee clubs at school and a group called the Wailers that sang at school assemblies.

In the Wrights moved back to Los Angeles. Shortly after her sixteenth birthday the Wrights became members St. Paul Baptist Church where Darlene sang in the choir. It was during a choir practice that her voice caught the attention of Cora Martin the choir director. After singing a song for her, Martin asked her to come down to the Music Mart where they did some broadcasts and sing a few songs.

You might say that this was where Darlene's career began.