Disney
United States
Samuel E. Wright
![Listen to The Little Mermaid (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Special Edition] by Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, Jodi Benson, Samuel E. Wright & Pat Carroll](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music126/v4/a5/a6/57/a5a6573e-95b1-ce8b-7107-db581074cc4c/06PNDIM00543.rgb.jpg/1380x1380bb.webp "Listen to The Little Mermaid (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Special Edition] by Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, Jodi Benson, Samuel E. Wright & Pat Carroll")
About Samuel E. Wright
Hometown
Camden, SC, United States
Born
November 20, 1946
Genre
Disney
American stage and film actor Samuel E. Wright is best known for voicing Sebastian the Crab in the 1989 animated film The Little Mermaid.
∙ Wright got his first big break in 1972, when he took over for Ben Vereen as the lead in the Broadway production of Pippin.
∙ In 1973, he recorded a soul single, “There’s Something Funny Going On,” for Paramount Records.
∙ Playing jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie, he made his film debut in 1988’s Bird.
∙ “Under the Sea,” one of several songs he performed in The Little Mermaid, won an Academy Award for Best Original Song.
∙ The 1990 album Disney’s Sebastian from the Little Mermaid featured various reggae and calypso songs sung by Wright in the Sebastian voice.
∙ He starred as Mufasa in the original 1997 Broadway production of The Lion King.
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