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While attending the University of Southern California, she agreed to write songs for a friend.[11] A demo session was scheduled for the songs to be recorded by another singer, but the vocalist failed to appear, so Gray recorded them herself.

I started forming bands and writing songs just for fun and then I really got into it and got attached to it. Then a friend of mine asked me to be a singer in his jazz band. He gave me all these jazz CDs and I studied all these different singers and I kind of taught myself how to sing for a gig, but I didn't take it seriously until later.[10]

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She then met writer-producer Joe Solo while working as a cashier in Beverly Hills.[12] Together, they wrote a collection of songs and recorded them in Solo's studio. The demo tape gave Gray the opportunity to sing at jazz cafs in Los Angeles.[11] Although Gray did not consider her unusual voice desirable for singing,[10] Atlantic Records signed her. She began recording her debut record but was dropped from the label upon the departure of A&R man Tom Carolan, who had signed her to the label.[13] Macy returned to Ohio but in 1997 Los Angeles based Zomba Label Group Senior VP A&R man Jeff Blue, convinced her to return to music and signed her to a development deal, recording new songs based on her life experiences, with a new sound, and began shopping her to record labels.[14][15] In 1998, she landed a record deal with Epic Records.[16] She performed on "Love Won't Wait", a song on the Black Eyed Peas' debut album Behind the Front.[17]

The cover of Justin Vivian Bond's album Silver Wells, on which the cabaret performer uses other people's songs to construct a plotline that echoes the Joan Didion novel Play It As It Lays. Courtesy of the artist hide caption

The result is a collection that wittily reimagines songs that are already much beloved by their target demographic fans. Covered manages to retain the emotional honesty of those songs while artfully reconfiguring the musical contexts, and clearing space for Macy to place her indelible stamp on them.

I always knew that [my voice] must be for a reason because it was so peculiar. I knew music and played piano, and wrote songs for fun. I had a friend whom I went to school with [at USC] who had a 4-track recorder in his dorm room.

Macy Gray sang about three songs in total. Her rendition of one of her own songs, "Beauty in the World", was okay. She seemed to be at her most - present, I guess? - during this song. So naturally it was the absolute standout of the evening. Her cover of "Sail" was so bad that AWOLNAITION will still be spinning when they're in their graves. I honestly couldn't tell you what her first song was because it was sung so incoherently.

On "The Reset," Gray mines an emotional authenticity that results in songs such as, "Undone," a jazz pop-infused ballad that unfolds like someone crooning outside a partner's window. Additional songs like "Cop Killer," "America '' or "Mercy '' show the songwriter at her most exasperated, highlighting the larger issues that face our society with unflinching honesty.

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The unique talent and voice of Grammy-winner Macy Gray rises again on her new release "Big" - with a host of collaborators including Joe Solo, who co-wrote the song "I'm So Glad You're Here." The song is produced by the Black Eyed Peas' Will.i.Am and also features superstar vocalist Fergie. Solo also had a hit song with "Sweet Baby" on Gray's 2001 record "The Id" and both songs featured Stylus RMX in their creative groove.Solo has a long history with the singer, as he tells it, "I've been working with Macy Gray since 1985. We met at a late night diner. She was the cashier, and asked me if I was a musician --I had the 1985 rock guitarist hairdo and all - and she asked if I wanted to work on some music together. The very next day we got together and started writing! When I first heard her voice I was down for the long term. Then years later, in 2001 we co-wrote a hit with 'Sweet Baby'."Macy Gray said, "I love him... I love Joe. We've worked together over the years, on some great songs, including 'Sweet Baby' and 'Glad You're Here.' He's a great writer and an even greater person."

Collaborating with artists is one of Joe's specialties, and he uses Stylus RMX as a key ingredient in composing. When asked about the process of writing songs with Macy Gray, Solo explained, "Macy and I sit down in a room with one guitar and we work on a song for three or four hours. For "I'm So Glad You're Here" she had a melody in mind. I had her air-drum the beat so I can see what she's hearing when she sings because she places her accents a certain way. Then I'd have her play air-guitar so I can learn the chord changes timing in her head, and I would experiment with various chord combinations."

In creating songs he feels Stylus RMX becomes a guiding point for the whole song. "The interesting thing is that the feel of the song all starts with the Stylus RMX loop, it's the feel and the infrastructure of the song; every element is born out of that. Even if in the final mix the loop is taken out. It's a very valuable tool, even if an artist doesn't want 'loops' in their project," said Solo.

A very few secret guest appearances have been revealed years after the songs had been released (Keep It Together or Get Satisfied for example) so who knows, but it's the first time I ever hear of this rumor concerning The Id.

Steve Baltin: Did you do a lot of work during the pandemic? I know you have the two new songs now, but were you pretty prolific during this time, or were you more enjoying the rare downtime?

Gray: I grew up in '69, so I had all those big influences. When I was coming up everything was cool. You still had classic rock, you still had all the Motown going on, you had the Jacksons, even jazz was really popular. Then I got to be a kid in the '80s, so you had the '80's music, you had reggae. So it was lucky to come up at that time. And then hip-hop. I was in the fifth grade when I heard my first hip-hop song, I think. Anyway, so I got access to all that. Plus my mother was taking me to piano lessons once a week, and I had to practice every night for 30 minutes. So I was really connected to all that. And my mother was a big Elvis [Presley] fan, so I knew every Elvis record. And my dad was a James Brown fanatic, so I learned how to dance like James Brown. But as far as me just choosing someone, my first big [one] was Prince. Yeah, beyond, I painted my walls purple and everything. I think I was probably 12 or 13 when I first heard Prince, but when I painted my walls purple, that was Purple Rain. So that was '84. And then you remember MTV was the '80s. So and then all MTV played when it first came out was heavy metal and Rod Stewart, and so I knew all those records too. For my family and the city I was born, it was just black music. But what MTV did was it introduced everybody to everything. So I know all those metal bands, all that stuff, Sade, everybody from her to, I don't know, I remember Cinderella, all those bands. Poison, I knew all those songs. So I came up at a good time to have influences.

Gray: People just want to feel something. They show up and you make them cry, or you make them scream, or you make them take their shirt off, or they meet the girl of their dreams, or they sweat too much and then mess up their favorite shirt, they're coming for that moment, and they're paying you to give it to them. But he's right, it's not about you. It's about "For my $50 to come and see you, what are you gonna give me? 'Cause I already heard your songs, what else do you got?" And they may scream for you and post and tell everybody they love you, and they dream about you, but it's really just what moment can you give them while they're here, and if you don't got no moment for them, they'll go home and listen to your records, but they're not coming to any more shows.

So there I was writing these passionate, heartfelt songs that I felt were far superior to the commercial fluff that was on the radio. The hit songs that comprised the top 40 seemed completely devoid of anything resembling genuine feeling, yet they were getting lots of airplay and making the writers and performers rich and successful. I was so poor I would search for pennies behind the sofa cushions before going to the market. What was wrong with this picture? ff782bc1db