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singer; songwriter

Personal Information

Born Natalie McIntyre c. 1970, in Canton, OH; married Tracy Hinds, 1996 (divorced, 1998); children: three.
Education: University of Southern California, attended.

Career

Vocalist and songwriter. Performed with jazz bands in Los Angeles area, 1998; Paramount and Universal studios, secretary, early 1990s; the We Ours club, hostess, early 1990s; signed to Atlantic label, 1994; signed to Epic label; debut album, Macy Gray On How Life Is, released 1999; album reached top 5 of pop sales charts; toured U.S., 2000; second album released, 2001.

Life's Work

Eclecticism--the creative mixing of genres and styles--was a prominent trend in American popular music at the turn of the millennium. One of the major African-American contributors to that trend was Macy Gray, a singer and songwriter who additionally had an unusual but addictive vocal style to offer. After several fruitless careers and frustrating episodes in the music business, Gray finally emerged as the sensation of 1999 with her debut album, On How Life Is. Signed to a four-album deal with the Epic label, she seemed ready to dominate pop airwaves and turntables with more of her unique musical mix for years to come.

Gray was born Natalie McIntyre in Canton, Ohio, around 1970; her father was a steelworker and her mother a math teacher and school administrator. She took the professional name Macy Gray as a tribute to a pool-playing male neighbor who told her when she was a girl that she would be something special one day. Self-conscious about her high-pitched voice, she became a shy child who rarely spoke. Even now, Gray told Newsweek, "When I hear myself talk, I always cringe. It's kind of a trip that everyone finds it so interesting."

Attended Private School

Growing up in the 1970s Gray was exposed to much of the classic soul and R&B music of the era; she especially liked the great eclectic artist of the day, Stevie Wonder. The first wave of rap music surfaced during her junior high school years. Gray's family encouraged her to achieve, and she evolved into a top student--with the result that another layer was added to her musical education. Gray was admitted to and spent most of her high school years at an exclusive and nearly all-white prep school. The atmosphere wasn't always comfortable--Gray recalled in Interview magazine that her classmates "would say or do things that weren't always respectful. I don't think they realized it was offensive because they were never exposed to anything other than their own kind of society." But Gray came away from the experience with an ongoing appreciation for rock music.

Gray studied classical piano for seven years and became a solid musician. Another major influence was Prince, whose fusion of rock and R&B anticipated aspects of Gray's own music. When Prince's Purple Rain LP was released, Gray painted her bedroom purple. She was kicked out of the prep school after bringing a sexual harassment charge against one of the school's administrators, but she had begun to pen short stories and to develop a strong sense of her own identity as a writer. Seething with creativity and determined to get out of Ohio, Gray applied, without her family's knowledge, to film school at the University of Southern California (USC).

Admitted to USC, she turned down a scholarship to the U.S. Naval Academy. The multicultural atmosphere of Los Angeles proved a congenial one for Gray. Mixing with film students and musicians, she began to write song lyrics but never gave a thought to performing them herself. Gray's debut performance came about by chance: a singer friend for whom she had written lyrics failed to show up for a recording date, and Gray was asked to fill in. She thought nothing of it, but tapes of the session began to circulate among L.A. musicians, and to her amazement the leader of a jazz band that worked the city's hotels asked her to join the band as a vocalist. "I thought he was out of his mind, but I did it because I thought it was good money," Gray was quoted as saying on the website sonicnet.com.

Worked at "We Hours" Club

Still not really thinking of herself as a performer, Gray became more deeply involved in the Los Angeles underground music scene in the early 1990s. She worked as a secretary at the Universal and Paramount movie studios and at night was a hostess at a club called the We Ours, open from 1 to 5 a.m. Innovative musicians such as the sophisticated rap group the Roots and the British electronica pioneer Tricky stopped by to perform. The club's owner, Ron Harris, credited its success to Gray's presence and positive impact on those around her. "She has a way of embracing people and nurturing them," he told Newsweek.

Gray's musical efforts culminated in a contract with Atlantic Records in 1994, and she set to work on her debut album. Living with her boyfriend, collection agent Tracy Hinds, Gray had two children in 1995 (a daughter in January and a son in December). The two were married in 1996 but divorced two years later, with Gray pregnant with a third child. At the same time, Gray's musical career fell apart. Atlantic, unnerved by Gray's Janis Joplin-lite voice, refused to release her by-then completed album and dropped her from the label's roster. Gray left Los Angeles and retreated to her parents' house in Canton.

But Gray had a backer in the music industry, publishing executive Jeff Blue, who had been struck by her distinctive voice and encouraged her to try again with another demo recording. It took Gray several months before she would even agree to meet with Blue, but eventually she set to work on the new record, armed with a group of new songs whose lyrics drew heavily on her own experiences. Blue went to work to try to sell her album to a major label, using the pseudonym "Mushroom" to disguise her identity and forestall memories of her career's failed first stage. Signed to the Epic label, Gray released her debut album, On How Life Is, in 1999.

Emphasized Female Sexuality

That album generated an instant buzz and finally rose to the Top Five of Billboard magazine's album sales chart. Lyrically sophisticated and serious (various cuts deal with drug abuse and violent relationships), the album neatly synthesized many of Gray's musical influences. By turns, it sounds like the 1970s soul group Sly and the Family Stone, the 1980s erotic rock-funkster Prince, and the hip-hop of the 1990s. Another noteworthy feature of On How Life Is is its frank emphasis on female sexuality. "Sex is a part of your everyday," Gray told Interview. "I don't think it's really appropriate to be afraid of it because you are a woman. ... I think if we didn't have a taboo and all these reservations about women and sex, maybe women wouldn't be so confused about their place in relationships."

Gray toured energetically in the year 2000, beginning with a stint at the prestigious Los Angeles club the Viper Room. Like other African-American artists who explored older styles in the face of hip-hop's dominance of black radio, she has found the majority of her fans among white listeners--partly, perhaps, because her voice is more typical of alternative rock than of most African-American styles. Initially troubled by this reaction, Gray has since accepted it: "I've learned you just got to keep going and do your thing," she told Essence. Gray surprised observers when her single "I Try" won the Grammy award for Best Female Pop Vocal in February of 2001, beating out such heavily hyped contenders as Madonna and Britney Spears. Expectations were high indeed for her sophomore release, slated for later that year and said to include a stronger hip-hop component.

Awards

Grammy award for Best Female Pop Vocal, 2001.

Works

Selected discography

  • On How Life Is, Epic, 2000.

Further Reading

Periodicals

  • Billboard, September 11, 1999, p. 19; May 6, 2000, p. 12.
  • Ebony, September 1999, p. 18.
  • Entertainment Weekly, July 30, 1999, p. 72.
  • Essence, July 2000, p. 61.
  • Interview, March 2000, p. 66.
  • Newsweek, August 2, 1999, p. 62.
  • People, March 12, 2001, p. 91.
Other
  • Additional material was obtained online at: http://www.allmusic.com, http://www.mtv.com, http://www.rollingstone.com, http://www.sing365.com, and http://www.sonicnet.com.

— James M. Manheim

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Macy Gray

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  • Born: September 06, 1967, Canton, OH
  • Active: '90s, 2000s
  • Genres: Rhythm & Blues
  • Instrument: Vocals
  • Representative Albums: "On How Life Is," "The Very Best of Macy Gray," "Big"
  • Representative Songs: "I Try," "Sweet Baby," "Finally Made Me Happy"

Biography

Macy Gray parlayed an utterly unique voice and an outlandish sense of style into R&B stardom at the turn of the millennium, appealing to audiences of all colors in search of a fresh alternative to mainstream soul. Gray was actually born Natalie McIntyre in Canton, OH, and grew up a shy, awkward youngster who was frequently teased about her odd-sounding voice. She studied classical piano for seven years, but also soaked up the music of soul legends like Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, and Aretha Franklin, not to mention old-school hip-hop; at boarding school as a teenager, she was exposed to a variety of white rock & roll as well. She moved to Los Angeles to enroll in USC's screenwriting program, where one day she agreed to write lyrics for a musician friend's original songs. A demo session was scheduled to get the songs on tape, and when the singer failed to show up, Gray -- having adopted the full name of an elderly neighbor in Canton as her creative alias -- wound up singing on the recordings herself, in spite of her distaste for her own voice. One of the songs was never overdubbed with another vocal, and when the tapes started making the rounds of the local music scene, Gray's raspy growl attracted a lot of attention, much to her surprise. She was offered a job singing jazz and pop standards with a band that performed in hotels around Los Angeles, and her continued work as a demo singer created a buzz around the unlikely diva.

Gray organized an after-hours club called the We Ours, which took place in a small coffeehouse; in addition to welcoming open-mic acts, Gray and her jazz group performed there regularly. She signed with Atlantic Records, who declined to release the album she recorded for them; devastated by this rejection and the breakup of her marriage (her third child was on the way at the time), Gray retreated to Canton. However, her demo tape continued to make the rounds, and she returned to L.A. to accept a publishing deal with Zomba. This in turn helped lead to a new record contract with Epic in April 1998, and Gray spent the next year recording what was to become her debut album, On How Life Is. Released in the summer of 1999, On How Life Is won glowing reviews and great word-of-mouth, but in spite of all that -- plus a moderate hit single in "Do Something" -- the record was slow to catch on at first. That all changed early the next year, when Gray received two Grammy nominations (for Best New Artist and Best Female R&B Vocal), and the single "I Try" started to take off on radio. "I Try" proved to be an enormous hit, and On How Life Is suddenly sold like hotcakes, entering the Top Ten and going triple platinum by the end of 2000. Gray scored a smaller follow-up hit with "Why Don't You Call Me," and also raised eyebrows with the album track "I've Committed Murder," in which the protagonist gets away with her crime. Although Gray lost out her first time at the Grammys, she was nominated again the following year for Best Female Pop Vocal thanks to "I Try," and this time won (although the song lost out on Record of the Year and Song of the Year honors).

In late 2000, Gray contributed two vocal tracks to Fatboy Slim's Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars album; she subsequently recorded with the Black Eyed Peas, cut a duet with rap legend Slick Rick for the Rush Hour 2 soundtrack ("The World Is Yours"), and made her screen acting debut in the Denzel Washington police drama Training Day. By the time she had begun work on her second album, Gray was developing a reputation for surreal public appearances and interviews, culminating in an August 2001 incident in which she was booed for apparently stumbling over the lyrics to the national anthem. Released the following month, The Id was a determined effort to play up the crazy side of Gray's image; it entered the charts at number 11 and quickly went gold on the strength of lead single "Sweet Baby." However, in spite of guest appearances by Erykah Badu and the Red Hot Chili Peppers' John Frusciante, among others, its sales stalled much sooner than expected. During 2002, Gray appeared as herself in the blockbuster film Spider-Man and also guested on Santana's Shaman. One year later, her third album -- The Trouble with Being Myself -- arrived on the shelves, although it was also a flop in commercial terms (it just barely missed the Top 40). With a new production team, including will.i.am from Black Eyed Peas and his confederate Ron Fair, Gray returned with a slicker, Tom Joyner-approved version of soul on 2007's Big, featuring collaborations with Natalie Cole and BEP's Fergie. ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide
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Macy Gray performing in 2008
Background information
Birth name Natalie Renee McIntyre
Also known as Natalie Hinds, Nemesis Jaxson
Born September 6, 1967 (1967-09-06) (age 42)
Canton, Ohio, U.S.
Genres R&B, soul, neo soul, funk rock, alternative hip hop
Occupations Singer-songwriter, record producer, actress
Years active 1998–present
Labels Epic, Geffen, will.i.am music group
Associated acts Sunshine Anderson
Website www.thegraylife.com

Macy Gray (born Natalie Renee McIntyre on September 6, 1967),[1] also credited as Natalie Hinds in her music, is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress, famed for her distinctive raspy voice[2] and a singing style heavily influenced by Billie Holiday and Betty Davis.

To date, Gray has released four studio albums, one compilation album, and one live album—with her fourth studio album, Big, released in March 2007—and has received five Grammy Award nominations, winning one. She has appeared in a number of films including Training Day, Spider-Man, and Idlewild. Gray is best known for her international hit single "I Try", taken from her multi-platinum debut album On How Life Is. In late 2008, Gray took on a new alias "Nemesis Jaxson", and has plans to release her fifth studio album in 2009.[3]

It was announced on August 17, 2009 that she will compete on the ninth season of Dancing with the Stars. She was the second contestant eliminated with the total score of 15 from the judges.

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Early life

Gray in 1995

Macy Gray was born to Laura McIntyre, a math teacher, and Otis Jones, but Laura later remarried Richard McIntyre, who adopted Macy. Gray was born in Canton, Ohio,[4] home of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, where she briefly worked at age 12, before being fired for tardiness.[5] She decided to pursue a career in music after being expelled from Western Reserve Academy in Hudson,[6] where she had attended since age 14.[7] However, Gray's initial success came as a surprise.[8] While attending the University of Southern California (graduated 1990)[9] she agreed to write songs for a friend, and a demo session was scheduled for the songs to be recorded by another singer.[10] When the vocalist failed to turn up, Gray recorded them herself. She then met writer/producer Joe Solo at her job as a cashier in Beverly Hills.[11] Together, they wrote a large collection of songs and recorded them in Solo's studio. The demo tape created a lot of attention and consequently landed Gray the opportunity to sing at jazz cafés in Los Angeles, California.[12] Despite Gray's dislike of her own voice,[13] her vocals garnered lots of attention around the jazz scene, and Atlantic Records signed her. During this time, the demo tape was still making the rounds, and in 1998 she landed a record deal with Epic Records.[14] During this time she was also on one of the songs from The Black Eyed Peas' debut album, "Love Won't Wait".[15]

Music career

On How Life Is (1999)

During the whole of 1998, Gray continued to work on her debut album.[16] Released in the summer of 1999, On How Life Is became a worldwide smash.[17] Despite the first single "Do Something" stalling on the charts, it was by extremely positive word of mouth and the release of the second single "I Try" that the album really became a success for Gray.[18] "I Try" (which was originally featured in the Jennifer Aniston-starring vehicle, the romantic-comedy Picture Perfect in 1997)[19] was one of the biggest singles of 1999,[20][21] and subsequent singles "Still" and "Why Didn't You Call Me" ensured the album becoming triple platinum in the U.S.,[22] quadruple platinum in the UK,[23] and triple platinum in Canada.[24]

In 2001, Gray won the Grammy Award for "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance" for "I Try", which was also nominated for "Song of the Year" and "Record of the Year".[25] She then collaborated with Fatboy Slim, The Black Eyed Peas, and Slick Rick (on the song "The World Is Yours", from the Rush Hour 2 soundtrack), as well as acting for the first time in the thriller Training Day.[26] In August 2001, Gray was booed off the field at the Pro Football Hall of Fame exhibition game after forgetting the words to the American national anthem.[27]

Subsequent albums (2001–2005)

In the midst of the controversy, Gray's The Id became a commercial stillborn, largely stalling on the U.S. charts. The album featured appearances by John Frusciante and Erykah Badu on the single "Sweet Baby", (which was co-written with longtime collaborator Joe Solo).[28] The album managed to peak at number eleven on the Billboard 200.[29] Despite its failure in the U.S., it reached number one on the UK Albums Chart and was certified gold by the BPI.[30] The underperformance in the United States, compared to her debut album, may have been attributed to the fact that The Id was released just a week after the September 11, 2001 attacks. [31] In 2002, she appeared in Spider-Man as herself and worked with Santana on the track "Amoré (Sexo)", from his album Shaman.[32][33] She also recorded a duet with Zucchero called "Like The Sun (From Out Of Nowhere)" which featured Jeff Beck on guitar released in 2004 on Zu & Co., a duets collection. [34][35] Her song "Time of My Life" was included in the soundrack to 8 Mile.[36] A cartoon based on Gray's childhood was being developed at one point, but it never came to fruition.[37][38]

In 2003, Gray released her third studio album, The Trouble with Being Myself, to rave reviews.[39] The lead single "When I See You" became a radio hit in the U.S. and a top forty hit in the UK, although the album wasn't as well received by fans.[40] It nevertheless became Gray's third top twenty album in the UK.[41][42] A greatest hits collection and a live album were subsequently released: The Very Best of Macy Gray (2004) and Live in Las Vegas (2005). Additionally, Gray was featured on Marcus Miller's 2005 album Silver Rain, on a cover of Prince's 1986 song "Girls & Boys". She also appeared on the soundtrack to the film Chicago with Queen Latifah and Lil Kim on "Cell Block Tango/He Had it Comin'."[43]

Big (2007): return to music

Gray began 2007 badly after being kicked off-stage at a concert in Barbados for profanity (which was part of the show), but she wasn't aware that it was against the law in that country.[44] She gave a public apology that night to avoid arrest.[45]

In March, Gray released her fourth studio album (sixth overall), entitled Big.[46] Two singles, "Finally Made Me Happy" and "Shoo Be Doo", have been released from the album.[47] "What I Gotta Do", another track from the album, is featured on the Shrek the Third soundtrack. It is largely considered Gray's comeback album, after a four-year hiatus since her last studio album.[48] The album was critically acclaimed and seen by some as her best work yet.[49] It featured collaborations with Natalie Cole, Fergie, Justin Timberlake, and will.i.am, who co-executive produced the album with Gray. Big was the second release from will.i.am's record label, will.i.am Music Group, after Fergie's The Dutchess.

The album was moderately successful in the U.S., where it debuted and peaked at #39 on the Billboard 200, becoming Gray's highest-charting album since The Id.[50] Surprisingly, Big did not achieve great success in the UK, where it reached #62 on the albums chart,[51] her lowest-charting UK album,[52] but it did achieve some success in several other countries including Switzerland, the Czech Republic, and Finland, reaching the top forty of their albums charts.[53]

PBS's Soundstage live concert series premiered a Gray concert on July 5.[54] The one-hour concert included songs from Big—"Finally Made Me Happy", "Shoo Be Doo", "Ghetto Love", "What I Gotta Do", "Glad You're Here" (another collaboration with Producer/ Writer Joe Solo), "Slowly", and "Everybody". Other songs performed were "Caligula", "Why Didn't You Call Me", "Oblivion" with the set ending with "I Try". Future airdates can be found on PBS's website.[55]

On July 7, 2007, Gray performed at the Brazilian leg of Live Earth at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro.[56] Gray and her band members wore clothes with politically-motivated messages. In her dress, it was written "Darfur Red Alert".

Big was later promoted on the Internet via the UK version of the Apple iPhone launch demo, due to Gray's past popularity in the UK.

Macy recently launched a new campaign under the name Nemesis Jaxson, with upcoming single, "Slap a Bitch".[57] Slap a Bitch has not been released as of June 2009, but a video featuring many people slapping each other's faces was released on the Internet around December 12, 2008.

Recently, Macy was available again in another Movie soundtrack (she is featured in more than 10 other soundtracks): Confessions of a Shopaholic, with the newest track "Don'Forget Me".[58]

On September 9, 2009 Gray held a concert in Bulgaria, her first one in the country.

Other work

Gray appeared in the eighth season of Bravo's Celebrity Poker Showdown, playing for Habitat for Humanity. She finished in third place, behind Robin Tunney and Christopher Meloni, and ahead of Joy Behar and Andy Dick.[59]

She was Punk'd by Ashton Kutcher on his reality show Punk'd.

Gray was a Neopet for a short period of time on the popular virtual pets site of the same name. She was changed into the Kau during July 2000.[60]

In 2002 she was the voice for Seeiah Owens in the video game SSX Tricky.[61] On the same year, she made a brief appearance in the film Spider-Man as herself.[62]

Gray sang the theme song for Nickelodeon's As Told By Ginger.[63]

Collaborated with Ol Dirty Bastard shortly before his OD on a loose, but hilarious cover of Elton John's "Don't Go Breaking my Heart". The track was put on "A Son Unique, set for release Aug 9th, 2005. Its release has been delayed several times, the latest date set for Nov 7th 2009.

She appeared at the 2008 Gulf Air's Bahrain Grand Prix. She stated she liked the Ferrari team and also found Jenson Button 'cute'.[64]

In August 2008, Gray headlined at the 2008 Summer Sundae music festival in Leicester, England. The crowd got on their feet and helped her belt her smash-hit "I Try". She also performed cover versions of Rod Stewart's "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?", Deee-Lite's "Groove Is in the Heart" and Radiohead's "Creep".[65] For the gig, her band wore pink Andy Warhol wigs.[66]

On September 28, 2008, Gray sang the American national anthem as part of the Israeli flag-raising ceremony at the Israeli Consulate of Los Angeles.[67][68]

In 2008, Gray collaborated with Australian DJ and singer Kaz James on the song "Can't Hold Back". The single was released in early 2009 in Australia and is credited to Kaz James featuring Macy Gray. It is included on James' debut solo album, If They Knew.[69]

In late 2008, Gray worked with Carmit Bachar on a few songs for her upcoming solo album. It has been reported that Bachar is also featured on Gray's new album.

Personal life

Gray was married from 1996 to 1998 to Tracy Hinds, with whom she had three children: Aanisah (born January 1994), Tahmel – known as Mel (born December 1994) – also involved in the music industry, Cassius (nicknamed "Happy") (born 1997).[70] Gray opened up a music academy called The Macy Gray Music Academy in 2005 and it was the scene for an episode of MTV's Punk'd because of "black mold in the building". Gray has been highly praised for her work with the academy and has given underprivileged children and teenagers the chance to perform.

Gray has two tattoos—one on her right wrist with all her children's names and the other on her leg that has a rose and says "Daddy". She was an early supporter of a Barack Obama presidential campaign; almost two years before his official announcement, she wore a shirt saying "Barack Obama for President" during the Hurricane Katrina fundraisers.[71][72]

Macy is the oldest of her three siblings.

Discography

Main article: Macy Gray discography

Studio albums

Filmography

Films

Year Title Role
2001 Training Day Sandman's Wife
2002 Spider-Man Herself
2003 Scary Movie 3 Herself
Gang of Roses Assassin
2004 Lackawanna Blues Pauline
Around the World in 80 Days Sleepy Frenchwoman
Lightning in a Bottle Herself
2005 The Crow: Wicked Prayer Carman
Shadowboxer Neisha
Domino Lashandra Davis
2006 Idlewild Taffy

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2000 Ally McBeal Herself "Hope and Glory" (episode 20, season 3)
2002 MDs Jess "Wing and a Prayer" (episode 7)
2004 American Dreams Carla Thomas "Real-to-Reel" (episode 12, season 2)
That's So Raven Rhonda "Taken to the Cleaners" (episode 4, season 3)
Blue's Clues Herself "Bluestock"
2005 Duck Dodgers Diva (voice) "Diva Delivery/Castle High" (episode 10, season 2)
American Dragon: Jake Long Trixie's grandmother (voice)
  • "Act 4, Scene 15" (episode 5, season 1)
  • "Professor Rotwood's Thesis" (episode 8, season 1)
Miss Jenkinks "Act 4, Scene 15" (episode 5, season 1)
1-800-Missing Cleo "A Death in the Family" (episode 13, season 3)
2009 Dancing With the Stars Herself Contestant

Awards and nominations

  • BRIT Awards
    • 2000, International Breakthrough Act (WON)
    • 2000, International Female (WON)
  • Billboard Awards
    • 2001, Best Rap/Hip-Hop Clip of the Year: "Request Line"
    • 2001, Best Direction: "Request Line"
  • Grammy Award
    • 1999, Best New Artist
    • 1999, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance: "Do Something"
    • 2000, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance: "I Try" (WON)
    • 2000, Record of the Year: "I Try"
    • 2000, Song of the Year: "I Try"
  • MTV Video Music Awards
    • 2000, Best New Artist: "I Try" (WON)
    • 2000, Best Cinematography: "Do Something" (WON)
    • 2000, Best Female Video: "I Try"
    • 2000, Best Art Direction: "I Try"
    • 2001, Breakthrough Video: "Geto Heaven Remix T.S.O.I. (The Sound of Illadelph)"
    • 2001, Best Hip-Hop Video: "Request Line"

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