Not even James Brown could make soul music seem so joyously sexy as 31-year-old Nathalie McIntyre from Canton, Ohio – better known by her adopted moniker: Macy Gray. Last year’s album, ‘Macy Gray on How Life Is’, saw her fusing gospel with the sounds of the ghetto to become a runaway success. A curly colossus, she dances with the grace of Giant Haystacks in a leather thong, and her clothes are more garish than Austin Powers’. But with music so undisputedly groovy, such sartorial sacrilege is forgivable.
