Macy Gray wants fans to relate to her music
Macy Gray The singer, 42, has been making hits for over a decade after shooting to fame with the single I Try and is famed for her distinctive gravelly voice.
Macy feels as though she has grown up with her fans and she hopes they can relate to her lyrics which reflect her role as a mother to Aanisah, 16, Mel, 15, and Cassius, 13, her children with ex-husband Tracy Hinds.
"I want to make music that makes people feel good. It's for the fans and people like me that are grown up and have kids and have issues with love and their career and I just want to make records that they can relate to and that can help them through things,” she told British newspaper The Independent.
Family is incredibly important to Macy, who thanks her father for giving her invaluable career advice which has helped her stand out from the crowd. The star says he taught her not to fill her songs with her own voice the entire time, instead letting the instruments have precedence.
"My dad gave me the best advice. The first time he came and saw me at a concert he goes, 'Sometimes just let the music play, you don't have to sing over every bit of it'. A lot of singers over-sing, they fill up every space and just from him saying that I learned to give things space. And it makes all the difference in the world, especially live," she added.
Macy also explained that she has no plans to ever stop making music, and says she feels secure enough to accept that people won’t always appreciate the songs she writes.
“I know I'm going to make records for the rest of my life and some of my records a lot of people are going to like and some nobody's going to like. And that's great,” said the star.
