Source :- PERTH NOW NEWS
A major US act is rumoured to be the one to perform at the NFL’s season opener at the MCG in September.
Macy Gray is the artist expected to provide the pre-game entertainment ahead of the marquee game, according to Melbourne’s 101.9 The FOX host and former AFL superstar Brendan Fevola.
Fevola revealed he was sent a DM as part of a regular segment on the Fifi, Fev and Nick show — “Fev’s DMs” — where an anonymous texter “involved in the MCG” suggested the I Try singer would headline the September 11 spectacle.
“I’ve just been told that Macy Gray will perform at the MCG for the opening of the NFL season,” Fevola said.
It comes after the singer – whose I Try went to No.1 one in Australia and New Zealand in 1999 – announced a 21-show Aussie tour, kicking off with her September 11 Hamer Hall date in Melbourne.
But Fevola’s co-host asked if she was a big enough artist for the spectacle, which is expected to draw a capacity crowd at the MCG as the San Francisco 49ers face the LA Rams.
“It’s OK. I just think you’d get a bigger star,” Fifi said.
“She’s huge in America, superstar. She was on The Masked Singer bro,” Fevola replied.
As the producer played one of her other hit songs Still, host Nick said: “Oh yeah, just gets you in the mood for gridiron! It’s got me all fired up for the NFL.”
Gray, 58, appeared on The Masked Singer Australia in 2021 as “Atlantis” and infamously refused to leave the show after being voted off.
“Macy Gray had such passion for The Masked Singer Australia that when she was told that she had to leave the show, which you saw last night, she refused to leave the show,” comedian Dave Hughes said on his 2DayFM show at the time.
“She said ‘No, I’m continuing in the show’ and there had to be a discussion which went for quite a while as to ‘No, you have to leave’. She said ‘No, I’m not leaving’.
“She was very gracious on air, a real professional. But off air, wanted to stay.”
