[2] Gray, a child prodigy, at age five made her first public appearance in Carnegie Hall in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, singing "Steam Heat" from the musical The Pajama Game, and received a positive critical acclaim.
She performed at Mount Zion Baptist Church in Glassboro, New Jersey in a concert along with her mother not long after.
Uninterested in the politics of the music business, even as a child, she decided to not to renew her contract by the time she was 14.
She resided for many years in London, England where she recorded and performed with David Bowie, George Harrison, John Lennon, Steve Winwood, Dave Mason, David Crosby, and Stephen Sills, to name a few.
Gray died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 7, 2014, from a rare form of bile duct cancer at age 65.