Debbie Wright is aP funk vocalist .She sang on early P-Funk material in the late 1960s early 1970s with Parlet member, Mallia Franklin. Wright and Jeanette Washington became first female members of P-Funk in 1975. Wright, Franklin & Washington became Parlet in 1978. Wright was replaced by Shirley Hayden only a few months after the release of Parlet’s first album Pleasure Principle in 1978.