Last Updated on March 2, 2023

Tamyra Gray Biography

Tamyra Gray (born as Tamyra Monica Gray) is an American entertainer, vocalist, and musician, who completed the fourth spot on the main period of the melodic reality competition American Idol in 2002. Post American Idol, Gray has started following up on Broadway and TV. She had a common job in the third period of the dramatization series Boston Public in mid-2003.

She is best known for competing in the fourth spot on the primary period of the unscripted tv arrangement American Idol in 2002. Dim discharged her solitary collection The Dreamer in 2004 which came to #23 on the Billboard 200 outline and #16 on the US R&B diagram.

As an entertainer, she had a common job as Aisha Clemens in the TV arrangement Boston Public in 2003. Dim featured in the motion pictures The Gospel and Rachel Getting Married and furthermore showed up in scenes of the TV arrangement Half and Half, Tru Calling, What I Like About You, and Las Vegas.

In 2003 she was assigned for a Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Breakout Star – Female. She has likewise featured on Broadway in the preparations Bombay Dreams and Rent.

Tamyra Gray Age And Height

Tamyra Monica Gray was conceived on 26 July 1979 in Takoma Park, Maryland, United States. She is 39 years of age starting in 2019.

Tamyra Gray Early Life

Dim was conceived in Takoma Park, Maryland and later moved to Norcross, Georgia. She graduated from Stone Mountain High School in Stone Mountain, Georgia in 1997. She started singing at an early age.

She contended in several beauty pageants and was named Miss Atlanta in 1998. Dim attended Georgia State University, majoring in business law and amusement of the executives.

Earlier to American Idol, she worked an assortment of employments including childcare specialist, party inspiration, telemarketer, server, and running her own cleaning administration.

She additionally filmed Coca-Cola commercials and worked with specialists like her friend Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes and rapper DMX with any expectations of finding an opening into media outlets.

Dark married Color Me Badd singer Sam Watters (whom she worked with on The Dreamer) on September 2, 2006, in Capri, Italy. Around 45 visitors were in participation, including her then-supervisor, Lisa Braude.

Dark’s picture taker sold the wedding photographs to the American press, and the calm relationship before long ended up open after People magazine broke the story. She is presently stepmom to Kieran, Sam’s child from a past marriage.

On March 23, 2010, Gray reported to Entertainment Weekly that she was expecting her first infant with Watters. On July 17, 2010, Gray brought forth little girl Sienna Marie.

Tamyra Gray Married And Hitched

In 200, she traded her marital promises with Samuel Joshua. he is prevalently known as  Sam” Watters. “Sam” Watters is an American artist, musician, record maker, and record official.

Tamyra Gray

Watters was an individual from the multi-platinum selling 1990s R&B gathering Color Me Badd and co-created a significant number of their hits including “I Adore Mi Amor”, and “Every one of the 4 Love”.

Tamyra Gray American Idol

In 2002, Gray ended up one of the ten finalists on the main season of American Idol, inevitably completing fourth.

Her exhibition of the Burt Bacharach classic “A House Is Not a Home” was portrayed by Judge Simon Cowell as “probably the best execution on TV” that he had ever observed.

Dark was additionally included on two tracks on the American Idol Christmas CD—an independent adaptation of “Quiet Night” and a two-part harmony rendition of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” with Ruben Studdard.

She likewise showed up on the Idol Christmas Special on Fox with Clarkson, Studdard, and different finalists from the initial two Idol seasons.

During the third season of American Idol, she came back to the show on a few events to sing “Raindrops Will Fall” and “Star”, melodies she co-composed for her introduction collection, and to sing the National Anthem to open the last outcomes show of the period.

Dark likewise co-composed the American Idol season three single “I Believe”, which was performed by Idol finalists Fantasia Barrino and Diana DeGarmo. Barrino then discharged “I Believe” as her American Idol single, which appeared at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts.

Rundown of exhibitions on American Idol

Semifinals[edit]

• June 18, 2002 “And I’m Telling You I’m Not Going” by Jennifer Holliday

On June 19, 2002, Tamyra became a finalist of American Idol.

Finals

• July 16, 2002 “Touch Me in the Morning” by Diana Ross
  • Theme: Motown
• July 23, 2002 “A Fool in Love” by Ike & Tina Turner
  • Theme: ’60s Music
• July 30, 2002 “If I Were Your Woman” by Gladys Knight & the Pips
  • Theme: ’70s Music
• August 6, 2002 “Minnie the Moocher” by Cab Calloway
  • Theme: Big Band
• August 13, 2002 “A House Is Not a Home” by Luther Vandross
  • Theme: Burt Bacharach Songs
• August 20, 2002 “New Attitude” by Patti LaBelle and “Feel the Fire” by Stephanie Mills

During the season, numerous faultfinders and fans believed that Tamyra would make it to the finals, and maybe win.

In any case, on August 21, Tamyra was put in the Bottom 2 (along with Nikki McKibbin), and after that wiped out from the show. The judges communicated their stun at the group of spectators’ choice while making steady remarks to Gray.

Tamyra Gray Music Career

After American Idol, creator Simon Fuller signed Tamyra to his recently formed independent record label, 19 Records, a division of his 19 Management, Gray’s first solo album, The Dreamer, which Gray kept in touch with herself, was in the long run discharged on May 25, 2004.

The collection sold 39,000 duplicates during its first week in discharge and has offered 122,000 to date. The H. Hector and J. Vasquez blends of Tamyra’s lead single, “Raindrops Will Fall,” crested at number five on Billboard’s Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart; another arrangement of remixes of a similar melody likewise hit number nine on that graph.

Dark later has gone separate ways with 19 Entertainment however stays close with Fuller, who went to her wedding to Sam Watters in Capri, Italy.

Dim played out a two-part harmony with American Idol season one winner Kelly Clarkson on Clarkson’s introduction release Thankful. The melody, entitled “You Thought Wrong,” was co-composed by Gray however never discharged as a solitary.

Dim was a co-essayist and back-up vocalist on Jessica Simpson’s album A Public Affair, which was discharged on August 29, 2006. She is recorded fourth recorded as a hard copy credits on the melodies “On the off chance that You Were Mine” and “The Lover in Me”, and sang back-up “On the off chance that You Were Mine” . The CD appeared on Billboard’s 200 Chart at number five.

Dim likewise co-composed the number one Billboard Hot 100 song “I Believe.”

Dim was accounted for to be recording another collection. Dim considered it a more club-accommodating, hip-jump based undertaking than her introduction. She is likewise during the time spent finding a record mark.

Tamyra tweeted that she was in the studio recording another collection with Ryan Tedder and the creation group The Runaways which her better half Sam Watters is part of. They had wanted to discharge her collection through a noteworthy name in 2010.

Dim composed and sang the demo for “Frail” off Kristinia DeBarge’s introduction collection.

Tamyra Gray Acting Career

She handled the common job of Aisha Clemens, an understudy in a damaging relationship, on Boston Public, showing up in seven scenes in 2003. She displayed her singing capacities, broadly covering Luther Vandross’ “Hit the dance floor with My Father” and Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You”.

She has had visitor jobs on scenes of Half and Half, Las Vegas, Tru Calling, What I Like About You (TV series), Ghost Whisperer and All Of Us. With other American Idol alumni, she showed up on The Tyra Banks Show in 2006.

She has featured on Broadway twice. In November 2004, Gray was thrown for a restricted commitment of twelve weeks in the job of Priya in Broadway’s struggling Bombay Dreams.

Because of proceeded with poor nets, the show shut at an early stage on January 1, 2005. She joined the cast of Rent as Mimi Marquez on May 29, 2007, and was planned to assume the job until November 25, 2007, in any case, that half-year contract was broadened. Dim performed in Rent until June 15, 2008, and was supplanted by Renée Elise Goldsberry.

In October 2005, Gray made her extra-large screen supporting job debut in the free film The Gospel, which appeared at No. 5 in the cinematic world, and furthermore had solid DVD deals when it was discharged to stores on January 3, 2006.

Dark has one melody, “Presently Behold the Lamb”, highlighted on the motion picture’s soundtrack, which moved to No. 1 on Billboard’s Soundtrack Chart. Her second motion picture job was in the 2008 movie Rachel Getting Married.

Likewise in 2005, Gray showed up in a short film for H&M’s new line of denim pants, and performed the Dreamgirls show plug “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going”. Tamyra was included in print commercials for the H&M denim and her adaptation of the tune played in H&M stores.

In 2011, Gray featured in the melodic “Curve,” a showy rendition of Oliver Twist set in New Orleans during the Depression, that was created by Debbie Allen at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California.

The melodic was initially booked to keep running from June 14 to July 17, yet was reached out through July 24 because of solid ticket deals and a string of sold-out shows.

In January 2016, she assumed control over the job of Kate on the national visit of If/Then. On January 8, 2018, she assumed control over the job of Papa Ge in the 2018 recovery of Once on This Island.

Tamyra Gray Net Worth

Tamyra Gray is an American entertainer, vocalist, and musician who has total assets of $1 million. Tamyra Gray was conceived in Takoma Park, Maryland on July 1979.

She is best known for competing in the fourth spot on the main period of the unscripted tv arrangement American Idol in 2002. Dark discharged her solitary collection The Dreamer in 2004 which came to #23 on the Billboard 200 graph and #16 on the US R&B outline.

As an on-screen character, she had a common job as Aisha Clemens in the TV arrangement Boston Public in 2003. Dark featured in the motion pictures The Gospel and Rachel Getting Married and furthermore showed up in scenes of the TV arrangement Half and Half, Tru Calling, What I Like About You, and Las Vegas.

In 2003 she was assigned for a Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Breakout Star – Female. She has additionally featured on Broadway in the creations Bombay Dreams and Rent.