Macy Gray was born in the Ohio but she moved to California when she was about 20 years to start singing. Her first album On How Life Is in 1999 got her a Grammy Award for a single I Try. All her albums that followed also were successful. Besides singing, she also acted in different movies such as the Paperboy where she played together with Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron and Mathew McConaughey. Macy Gray, full name is Natalie Renee MacIntyre and she attended a private college for her high school but she did not finish there, but finished at a local public school in the California University. She started singing while attending University of California.
Her first album, How Life Is was released in 1999 and it was her debut album which became a success instantly. Her Grammy award was for the Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for a song known as I Try. It was nominated to be the Song of the Year. Her following albums, The Trouble with Being Myself and the ID failed to do well in America but were successful in Great Britain. Her fourth album, Very Best of Macy Gray become an instant hit in 2004 and in 2005, she did a live album.
For her sixth album, she collaborated with Natalie Cole, Fergie and Justin Timberlake. Big was considered as a comeback album and it got too much praise. In 2007, she tried to rebrand herself with the Slap a Bitch single but her effort did not yield the results since it faded away after sometime.
Macy Gray is known to be addicted towards the bad men and one of her boyfriends is Dallas Austin. She says that he gave her one of her treasured possession, a bracelet made in large chrome hearts. When it comes to a perfect soul mate, she says that she does not believe in it especially because people changes and they grow out of a relationship. When it comes to changing, she had to change from time to time, from her name and changing places. Her father was an insurance broker and the mother was a teacher but her father left the family when she was a baby. At six, her father remarried her second husband, a retired steelworker. When she went to boarding school, she was bullied because of being a squeaker and tall. She did filmmaking and she got bored and she started to sign and changed her names.
She got married to her then boyfriend, Tracy Hinds who was working as mortgage broker. She got her first recording chance when she was pregnant with her first child. She got a divorce from her husband when she was pregnant with their third child.
Macy Gray says that she was closer to her step-father than her own father. She was diagnosed to suffer bipolar disorder. Macy Gray has a net worth of 20 million dollars but it is hard to know where she made most of her money because she is an actress, record producer, musician, songwriter and soul singer. She got her first salary working as a cashier in California where she met producer Joe Solo.
| Birth Date: | 6 Sep, 1967 |
| Age: | 52 yrs |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | Canton |
| Education: | University of Southern California USC School of Cinematic Arts |
| Gender: | Female |
| Description: | American singer-songwriter and actress |
| Twitter Id: | MacyGraysLife |
| Net Worth 2021: | 12 million |
