Macy Gray Releases New Album

N E W   Y O R K, July 15 -- Macy Gray performed "She Ain't Right For You," the new single off her latest album, The Trouble With Being Myself, on Good Morning America, as part of the show's summer concert series.

Gray, whose music is a combination of psychedelic soul, funk and rock, burst on the scene in 1999 with her Grammy-winning hit "I Try."

The single was off her debut album, On How Life Is and it sold 3.3 million copies. Her seductive music and unique vocal style made her a pop success story.

Gray, now 35, quickly became a hot new star in Hollywood, even landing a bit part in the hit movie Training Day.

Her next album, The Id, was released one week after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and with little promotion it sold about 585,000 copies.

The singer-songwriter's latest album, The Trouble With Being Myself was released in the United States on July 15.

Macy Gray was born in Canton, Ohio, by the name Natalie McIntyre — Macy Gray is her stage name.

She got her big break in 1997 when received a call from a record company executive in New York who heard her demo and wanted to see her.

That meeting led to a record deal and to the production of her highly successful first album On How Life Is.

The mother of three says she is now in the process of developing her own cartoon series, called A Pretty Good Life, based on her life as a 14-year-old.

Gray, who was briefly married after she finished college, says she enjoys spending a lot of her time off the road with her daughter Aanisah, 8, son Tahmel, 7, and daughter Happy, 5.