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See the gallery. If the gripping competitions and compelling characters of " Squid Game " kept you playing along, you'll love these three Netflix series that might have missed your radar. Watch the video. Sign In. Macy Gray Actress Composer Producer. Down 1, this week. View rank on IMDbPro ». She was previously married to Tracey Hinds. See full bio ». Filmography by Job Trailers and Videos.

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Deja Vu Soundtrack. Show all Hide all Show by We caught up with Peters in her childhood home - where she was swotting for a driving test - to explore her story so far. Congratulations on the album. When did it all come together? It's funny, I've been trying to make my first album since I was 12, writing songs as a Texas woman who threw my husband in the river! But I've been more concisely working on it since summer I actually went away and got a cottage and started the seeds of the album there.

What's it like to write with Ed Sheeran? He's so fast! And luckily I'm pretty fast too, because you have to keep up. He's insanely skilled at getting to the point of the song, and it's inspiring to be in the same room as him. You wrote your first ever song on a friend's guitar, is that right? Yes, I'm not from a musical family, so I borrowed my friend's guitar and started writing songs for my school music project. And I actually wrote my song and my sister's song, and then I wrote my friend's song.

So I was basically a jobbing songwriter at the age of How did you know what to do? I was always fascinated by lyrics. I would read along to work out what they were saying and then I'd learn them. So when it came to writing my own songs it wasn't like I knew what I was doing, necessarily, but I was so immersed in that world that, in my first years especially, I was really just copying them.

You have a real rapport with your audience on stage. Where does that come from? It's something I built up through busking and pub gigs. Those were so formative in learning about stagecraft - but also about how people don't have to listen to you. They have all the rights in the world to walk past and not even look. So you have to make sure you've got something to say, so that people stick around. I saw you headline Shepherd's Bush Empire in late , and it felt like a real "arrival of a pop star" moment.

But three months later, the brakes went on. What was that like from your perspective? I felt like I was on a train, on the precipice [of something big] and then it was a big screeching halt. But I wonder what sort of album I'd have made otherwise, because I was meant to be touring. I wasn't going to be home very much. You started an online book club during the lockdown. Do you get lyrical inspiration from reading? Yeah, absolutely. Because I started so young, I really cut my teeth writing as other people.

Nevertheless, she displayed an eccentric individuality and creative sense early on. On the musical side Macy studied classical piano, but during her childhood writing was her main outlet. She was a gifted student and in won a college scholarship to attend the United States Naval Academy. Macy, however, turned the offer down and enrolled at the University of Southern California USC to study film, with the intention of going into screenwriting.

While at film school, Macy stumbled luckily on what would be her future career when a friend asked her to perform in his jazz band. Initially she was apprehensive but decided to give it a go.

By the time she departed USC in , a few credits short of a degree, Macy was singing in underground clubs around Los Angeles, while trying her hand at writing screenplays. Music gradually began to take over as her main aim, and the artist even organised a late-night club spot called the "We Ours" at a Hollywood coffee shop. After spending most of the early s sending out demo tapes, Macy finally scored a record deal with Atlantic Records in Her contract never developed into anything major however, and no material was released.

The singer retreated to her mother's home in Canton in and, believing her music career was over, set her sights on becoming a teacher. But a Los Angeles producer who heard her demos for Atlantic convinced her to go into the studio one last time to record some tracks for a new demo.