Musician Macy Gray Photographed by Indira Cesarine for Venice Magazine, 2005.

Natalie Hinds, professionally known as Macy Gray, is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, and actress. Gray has released ten studio albums, and received five Grammy Award nominations, winning one. She has appeared in a number of films, including Training Day, Spider-Man, Scary Movie 3, Lackawanna Blues, Idlewild, For Colored Girls, and The Paperboy. Gray is best known for her international hit single “I Try,” taken from her multi-platinum debut album On How Life Is.