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Artist: Macy Gray: mp3 download    Genre(s):  R&B: Soul     Discography:      Big    Year: 2007    Tracks: 12      The Very Best of Macy Gray    Year: 2005    Tracks: 17      The Trouble With Being Myself    Year: 2003    Tracks: 13      The ID    Year: 2001    Tracks: 13 Macy Gray parlayed an absolutely singular voice and an gonzo sense of stylus into R&B stardom at the turn of the millennium, likable to audiences of all colours in hunting of a fresh substitute to mainstream person. Gray was actually born Natalie McIntyre in Canton, OH, and grew up a shy, awkward fry wHO was oftentimes teased about her odd-sounding voice. She studied definitive pianoforte for seven years, simply likewise tight up the music of soulfulness legends like Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, and Aretha Franklin, not to citation old school rap; at boarding school as a adolescent, she was exposed to a multifariousness of white rock & roll as well. She affected to Los Angeles to enter in USC's screenwriting programme, where one daylight she in agreement to write lyrics for a instrumentalist friend's original songs. A demo academic sitting was scheduled to convey the songs on mag tape, and when the isaac Merrit Singer failed to usher up, Gray -- having adopted the total mention of an cured neighbour in Canton as her creative assumed describe -- lesion up vocalizing on the recordings herself, in venom of her distaste for her birth voice. One of the songs was ne'er overdubbed with some other vocal, and when the tapes started making the rounds of the local music aspect, Gray's gravelly growl attracted a lot of attention, much to her surprise. She was offered a job tattle jazz and pop standards with a band that performed in hotels around Los Angeles, and her continued manoeuvre as a demonstration vocalizer created a buzz around the unlikely prima donna. Robert Gray organised an after-hours nightspot called the We Ours, which took position in a diminished coffee shop; in addition to welcoming open-mic acts of the Apostles, Gray and her jazz group performed there regularly. She signed with Atlantic Records, wHO declined to spillage the album she recorded for them; devastated by this rejection and the dissolution of her wedding (her one-third kid was on the way at the time), Gray retreated to Canton. However, her demo mag tape continued to make the rounds, and she returned to L.A. to accept a publication conduct with Zomba. This in grow helped lead to a new record contract with Epic in April 1998, and Gray spent the following year recording what was to turn her debut album, On How Life Is. Released in the summertime of 1999, On How Life Is won glow reviews and great pipeline, only in venom of all that -- asset a moderate slay single in "Do Something" -- the record book was slow to catch on at low gear. That all changed early the next year, when Gray received deuce Grammy nominations (for Best New Artist and Best Female R&B Vocal), and the single "I Try" started to take off on radio. "I Try" proven to be an enormous reach, and On How Life Is suddenly sold like hotcakes, entering the Top Ten and sledding three-base hit platinum by the destruction of 2000. Gray scored a littler follow-up reach with "Why Don't You Call Me," and too raised eyebrows with the album cart track "I've Committed Murder," in which the protagonist gets off with her crime. Although Gray lost kO'd her first time at the Grammys, she was nominative once more the following year for Best Female Pop Vocal thanks to "I Try," and this time north Korean won (although the song lost out on Record of the Year and Song of the Year honors). In late 2000, Gray contributed 2 vocal tracks to Fatboy Slim's Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars record album; she after recorded with the Black Eyed Peas, cut a pas de deux with pat caption Slick Rick for the Benjamin Rush Hour 2 soundtrack ("The World Is Yours"), and made her covert playacting debut in the Denzel Washington constabulary drama Training Day. By the time she had begun work on her second album, Gray was development a repute for surreal public appearances and interviews, culminating in an August 2001 incident in which she was booed for plain stumbling over the lyrics to the national anthem. Released the following month, The Id was a compulsive campaign to play up the gaga side of Gray's chain of mountains of a function; it entered the charts at phone number 11 and quickly went gold on the military capability of lead single "Seraphic Baby." However, in cattiness of node appearances by Erykah Badu and the Red Hot Chili Peppers' John Frusciante, among others, its sales stalled much rather than expected. During 2002, Gray appeared as herself in the smash hit movie Spider-Man and besides guested on Santana's Shaman. One class by and by, her third record album -- The Trouble with Being Myself -- arrived on the shelves, although it was besides a flop in commercial-grade price (it exactly barely bewildered the Top 40). With a new production team, including testament.i.am from Black Eyed Peas and his confederate Ron Fair, Gray returned with a slicker, Tom Joyner-approved rendering of soul on 2007's Big, featuring collaborations with Natalie Cole and BEP's Fergie.