Macy Gray

Macy Gray ( born September 6, 1967 in Canton, Ohio; actually Natalie McIntyre ) is an American singer from the field of Contemporary R & B with distinctive, " smoky " voice, which was primarily known for her single I Try.

Biography

Growing up is Macy Gray in Ohio. After attending Western Reserve Academy in Hudson ( Ohio) Macy in 1998 moved back to Los Angeles, California and started her career. Your first commercial appearance was as a guest vocalist on the song Love Will not Wait published in 1998 the debut album Behind the Front of The Black Eyed Peas. Your Career in Germany began in 1999 with SWR3 to. After several radio recordings has SWR3 invited her to New Pop Festival.

2001 Macy Gray won one of the coveted Grammy Awards in the category Best Female Vocal Performance - Pop ( Best Female Pop Vocal Performance ) for their success Title I Try, who was also nominated for Single of the Year and in another category. She then worked with Fatboy Slim, the Black Eyed Peas, and Slick Rick on the play The World Is Yours, which appeared on the soundtrack to Rush Hour 2. In the film Training Day, she made ​​her first appearance as an actress.

When her into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2001 meanwhile accounted for the text while singing the U.S. national anthem The Star- Spangled Banner, Gray was booed. Your published in the same year album The Id was perhaps because of this incident a commercial failure, but may also cause the attacks of September 11, as the album after that came on the market just a week. The extraction Sweet Baby, cooperated in the John Frusciante and Erykah Badu, but reached number 11 in the U.S. charts.

After that, she appeared briefly in the Sam Raimi film Spider - Man (2002 ) and In 80 days around the world with Jackie Chan, Scary Movie 3 and Training Day on. In Spider -Man, she played herself in an appearance at the World Unity Festival fictitious.

She worked in 2002 on Santana's Shaman and it published in their third album, The Trouble with Being Myself. A report based on her childhood cartoon was not published.

Gray was married from 1996 to 1998 with Tracy Hinds, with whom she has three children. Opened in 2005, the Macy Gray Music Academy.

To date, Macy has released six studio albums, plus a best-of and a live album. Her most recent work Covered appeared in March 2012.

Discography

Studio albums

Compilations

Other albums:

• 2005: Live in Las Vegas
• 2012: Covered
• 2012: Talking Book

Singles

As a guest musician

Filmography (selection)

• 2001: Training Day
• 2002: Spider -Man
• 2003: Scary Movie 3
• 2004: In 80 days around the world ( Around the World in 80 Days )
• 2005: The Crow - Wicked Prayer ( The Crow: Wicked Prayer )
• 2005: Domino
• 2006: Idlewild
• 2006: Déjà Vu - Race Against Time ( Déjà Vu )
• 2012: The Paperboy