“I love music. I like doing movies, but I don’t have the attention span to stay on the set. After four or five days I’m ready to go on to something else.” — Macy Gray
How much is Macy Gray worth?
| Net Worth: | $23 Million |
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| Profession: | Professional Singer |
| Date of Birth: | September 6, 1967 (age 54) |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Height: | 1.83 m |
About Macy Gray
Natalie Hinds, better known by her stage name Macy Gray, is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor. She was born Natalie Renée McIntyre on September 6, 1967. Her estimated net worth is $23 million.
Growing up, Macy Gray was known as Natalie McIntyre, and she endured a lot of vocal teasing. She was an avid follower of 1960s and 1970s Soul musicians like Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, and Stevie Wonder while also studying classical piano. She also enjoyed listening to classic hip-hop. She was exposed to rock and roll influences when she was a youngster, and when she moved to Los Angeles, she absorbed even more. She joined the University of Southern California’s screenwriting department, where she started crafting song lyrics for a musician buddy.
Midway through the 1990s, Macy signed with Atlantic Records and cut an album that was never made public. She persisted, though, and in 1998, a publishing agreement with the Zomba label helped her land a new record deal. Her formal first album, On How Life Is, was recorded over the course of the following year with Epic Records and released in the summer of 1999. Both the album’s sales and reviews were outstanding. Mostly because of the Grammy-winning single “I Try,”
Gray switched record labels in 2016 to Chesky Record in order to record the binaural sound album Stripped. First steps made by the singer into the world of audiophile records.
Ariana Grande‘s song “Leave Me Lonely” featured Macy Gray. Then, in 2018, Gray and Dolly Parton appeared on a new recording of “Two Doors Down” Gray appeared on the Canadian band Busty and the Bass’ song “Out Of Love” from the year 2020. Macy Gray’s net worth is projected to be $23 million as of 2023.
