| Birthday: September 9, 1970 Birth Place: Canton, Ohio (USA) Birth Name: Natalie McIntyre ( YOU CAN MINIMIZE THE BANNERS (CLOSE) AT BOTTOM) Crew Credits As Told By Ginger - Music (Current Theme Singer) Movie Credits 2001 - Baby Boy - Music 2001 - Rush Hour 2 - Music Acting Appearances Guest Starring Roles Saturday Night Live - Herself - Drew Barrymore/Macy Gray (2001) Saturday Night Live - Herself - Freddie Prinze Jr./Macy Gray (2000) Movie/Mini-Series/Special Roles 2001 - Training Day - Sandman's Wife 2002 - Spider-Man - Herself "You could either go the traditional way or the other way. I went the other way." -Macy Gray, on her adolescence Written by Dharma (Planet Macy Feb.-2000) Natalie McIntyre was born in Canton,Ohio 31 years ago. Macy says " I always had like a funny voice, I still do. I wouldn't really talk alot around people I didn't know,so people thought I was shy, but I was really just a little self conscience about my voice." Natalie acquired the name Macy Gray from a friend of her fathers. Singing was not what she had in mind when she first started out in the business. Natalie was a writer, a screenwriter . She attended the University of California. She told Vibe magazine she wrote some lyrics for some musician friends of hers and "when it came time to record the lyrics,the singer didn't show up so I sang instead." Macy sang background on Encounter's (Joe Solo) and in 1998 for Black Eye Peas (Behind the Front) After college she started a jam club with her friends in L.A.,called The We Ours Club. From what had to be endless groove sessions and brain storms, came the collaborative effort album called "On How Life Is." They were signed in April 1999 to Epic and they were in the studio two months later. All of Macy's band members are outstanding in their own rights. She has 3 children that are home with grandma, worrying about school and not touring. I saw them perform at the Numbers night club in Houston,Texas on Jan.22,2000, and they all turned it out! I must say it was the best show I've ever seen. The whole show was like watching an intimate look into someones life story. Each member of the band with their own part in the tale. But then Macy reaches in and makes you feel it , if only for two hours. She's an instinctual songwriter and I do believe we've only just begun to hear about Ms.Macy Gray! Anyway, take heed and go buy Macy's album and support them by going to see them when they come your way! Be prepared to be taken on a ride to her/your very soul when this sultry, deep thinkin',nappy headed, groovy chick takes the mic. "[Macy Gray] has unintentionally created a brand of music that could be dubbed spaceship soul." - Pitch Weekly Written by John Metzger If you already have an opinion about Macy Gray, her sophomore effort The Id will do little to change it. Much like her stunning debut, the disc draws heavily from the early '70s R&B scene, while folding in shades of both the psychedelic '60s and the hip-hop '90s. Under the guidance of producer Rick Rubin (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tom Petty, Mick Jagger, Johnny Cash), she incorporates both surf guitar, theremin, and trippy Zeppelin effects into Relating to a Psychopath; delivers Oblivion as a strange urban, klezmer polka; and conveys Sweet Baby as a cross between Janis Joplin and Marvin Gaye. For those who find her raspy, gravelly voice a tad grueling -- all I can say is you don't know what you're missing. Aptly titled The Id, the disc finds Gray once again yielding to her impulsive side. She clings to a lover despite his abuse (Boo) and stalks another who refuses her advances (Gimme All Your Lovin' or I Will Kill You). She gets her disco-freak on during Sexual Revolution and spews social commentary on Slick Rick's Hey Young World Part 2. Gray admits her manic despressive state of mind on Relating to a Psychopath, telling her fans, "Your role model is in therapy/You must be real far gone." But the truth of the matter is that Gray is saner than most. She's unquestionably a free-spirit, able to relate her uninhibited emotions to the world with sometimes alarming, sometimes touching, but always passionate clarity. Even at her most frightening, she displays a quiet vulnerability that undercuts her anger, revealing a lonely woman searching for a meaningful relationship amidst a life filled with sex and drugs. Following the mammoth success of I Try has not been simple for Gray. Her subsequent singles haven't fared nearly as well, and it's doubtful that much of The Id will blast her star back into the stratosphere. That, however, is in no way Gray's fault and says more about the fickle music industry than her level of talent. After all, with The Id, Gray surely did her part, following the same formula without sounding formulaic, thereby soundly defeating the sophomore curse and creating another masterpiece. |
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