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TROUBLE WITH BEING MYSELF
GRAY,MACY
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Thanks for looking! All items listed on this site are new and either in
stock or special orders. *Default release country is USA, ask if
unsure!*
Macy Gray parlayed an utterly unique voice
and an outlandish sense of style into R&B stardom at the turn of the
millennium, appealing to audiences of all colors in search of a fresh
alternative to mainstream soul. Gray was actually born Natalie McIntyre
in Canton, OH, in 1970, and grew up a shy, awkward youngster who was
frequently teased about her odd-sounding voice. She studied classical
piano for seven years, but also soaked up the music of soul legends
like Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, and Aretha Franklin, not to mention
old-school hip-hop; at boarding school as a teenager, she was exposed
to a variety of white rock & roll as well. She moved to Los Angeles to
enroll in USC's screenwriting program, where one day she agreed to
write lyrics for a musician friend's original songs. A demo session was
scheduled to get the songs on tape, and when the singer failed to show
up, Gray having adopted the full name of an elderly neighbor in Canton
as her creative alias wound up singing on the recordings herself, in
spite of her distaste for her own voice. One of the songs was never
overdubbed with another vocal, and when the tapes started making the
rounds of the local music scene, Gray's raspy growl attracted a lot of
attention, much to her surprise. She was offered a job singing jazz and
pop standards with a band that performed in hotels around Los Angeles,
and her continued work as a demo singer created a buzz around the
unlikely diva.
Gray organized an after-hours club
called the We Ours, which took place in a small coffeehouse; in
addition to welcoming open-mike acts, Gray and her jazz group performed
there regularly. She signed with Atlantic Records, who declined to
release the album she recorded for them; devastated by this rejection
and the breakup of her marriage (her third child was on the way at the
time), Gray retreated to Canton. However, her demo tape continued to
make the rounds, and she returned to L.A. to accept a publishing deal
with Zomba. This in turn helped lead to a new record contract with Epic
in April 1998, and Gray spent the next year recording what was to
become her debut album, On How Life Is. Released in the summer of 1999,
On How Life Is won glowing reviews and word-of-mouth, but in spite of
all that plus a moderate hit single in "Do Something" the record was
slow to catch on at first. That all changed early the next year, when
Gray received two 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" proved to be an enormous hit, and On How Life Is suddenly sold
like hotcakes, entering the Top Ten and going triple platinum by the
end of 2000. Gray scored a smaller follow-up hit with "Why Don't You
Call Me," and also raised eyebrows with the album track "I've Committed
Murder," in which the protagonist gets away with her crime.
Although Gray lost out her first time at the Grammys, she
was nominated again the following year for Best Female Pop Vocal thanks
to "I Try," and this time won (although the song lost out on Record of
the Year and Song of the Year honors). In late 2000, Gray contributed
two vocal tracks to Fatboy Slim's Halfway Between the Gutter and the
Stars album; she subsequently recorded with the Black-Eyed Peas, cut a
duet with rap legend Slick Rick for the Rush Hour 2 soundtrack ("The
World Is Yours"), and made her screen acting debut in the Denzel
Washington police drama Training Day. By the time she set about
readying her second album, Gray was developing a reputation for surreal
public appearances and interviews, culminating in an August 2001
incident in which she was booed for apparently stumbling over the
lyrics to the national anthem. Released the following month, The Id was
a determined effort to play up the crazy side of Gray's image; it
entered the charts at number 11 and quickly went gold on the strength
of lead single "Sweet Baby." However, in spite of guest appearances by
Erykah Badu and the Red Hot Chili Peppers' John Frusciante, among
others, its sales stalled much sooner than expected. In 2002, Gray
appeared as herself in the blockbuster film Spider-Man, and guested on
Santana's new album Shaman. One year later, her third album The Trouble
With Being Myself arrived on the shelves in mid-July.
Tracks include:
When I see
you
It ain't the money (feat pharoahe monch)
She ain't right for you
Things that made me change
Come together
She don't write songs about you
Jesus for a day
My fondest childhood
memories
Happiness
Speechless
Screamin'
Every now and then
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| | Price: | | $10.16 | |
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| | Category: | | POP | |
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| | Media: | | CD | |
| | Records in set: | | 1 | |
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| | Label: | | EPIC | |
| | Release Number: | | EK 86535 | |
| | Manufactured: | | CA | CANADA |
| | Release Date: | | 1/1/02 | |
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| | Condition: | | NEW | (not used) |
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| | Availability: | | ONE IN STOCK | |
| | Last Updated: | | 4/1/09 | |
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| | Seller Item Ref #: | | MACYGRAYTROUBLEWIEPICEK86535CD | |
| | GEMM Reference #: | | GML1419470366 | |
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