Macy Gray | Life Beyond "I Try."

Good Life Project

Jonathan Fields / Acast

Education, Wellness, Self-improvement, Midlife, Health & Fitness, Intentional Living, Personal Growth, Living Well, How To

4.5 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Macy Gray's unmistakable rasp, soul, and powerful spirit established as a 21st-century music icon with her triple-platinum album On How Life Is in 1999, featuring the generation-defining song "I Try." She's sold over 25 million albums, winning a GRAMMY, two BRITs, and collaborating with everyone from Ariana Grande to Galactic, and sold out venues in nearly every corner of the globe. Macy’s talents resound beyond music as well. She starred in Tyler Perry’s Black Reel Award-winning For Colored Girls and graced the screen everywhere from Brotherly Love and Cardboard Boxer to NETFLIX’s hit Fuller House, and made a legendary appearance in Training Day alongside Academy Award winner Denzel Washington. Now, her tenth full-length album, RUBY (https://amzn.to/3d0T2Vg), reaffirms and reasserts that signature rarity millions continue to treasure. Channeling the spirit of the R&B and jazz closest to her heart, Gray made a leap forward by looking back to formative inspirations. In the end, RUBY represents Macy Gray at her most passionate, poetic, and powerful.

You can find Macy Gray at: Website: https://macygray.com/ | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/macygray/

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0:00.0	Growing up in Canton, Ohio, I love being an interest in music and eventually heading off
0:12.9	to college but just relentlessly playing music on the side with friends, with bands.
0:18.4	Macy Gray started to make a bit of a name for herself but also found a ton of struggle.
0:25.5	She really deals with major record labels that just didn't pan out and yet along with
0:30.5	all this struggle she refused to give up.
0:33.8	Finally, in 1999, she broke through in the music world with her iconic song, I Try, selling
0:41.3	more than 25 million albums, winning a Grammy, two Brit Awards.
0:45.5	She was on top of the world but the journey that got her there was really hard and the
0:50.2	years that would follow would bring even more challenge but often of a different nature
0:55.6	including the pressures of managing fame and the introduction of drugs to her world.
1:01.3	Having landed in a more grounded place in life now, more seasoned, wiser, focused intensely
1:07.4	on her work, her fierce creative talent and powerful, distinct voice have opened the
1:13.2	door to tours, new albums, even appearances on screen acting alongside people like Nenza
1:19.0	Washington and so many others.
1:21.2	Her most recent album, Ruby, with the song Buddha, where she collaborates with one of my
1:26.0	favorite players out there right now, Gary Clark Jr. offers a line that really seems
1:30.8	to be her current mantra.
1:32.7	I'm all right now.
1:35.3	So really excited to share this conversation and Macy's journey with you.
1:40.7	I'm Jonathan Fields and this is Good Life Project.
1:50.0	Yeah, so good to be hanging out with you.
1:53.9	I know it's weird times, right?
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