Ask Dixie Trahan how it feels to have completed her debut album, and she’ll answer with a smile. “I would have to say this was a dream come true...because there is really nothing else I can say to accurately describe what this means to me.”

Even as a little girl, Dixie knew she wanted to be a performer. Her dad was a pastor, and she would spend hours in front of the bathroom mirror, pretending her hairbrush was a microphone. “I did these imaginary church services—everything from the hymns to the invitation.” Then she laughs and adds, “Make sure you tell everyone that was about age 5 or 6…I don’t do that anymore!”

When she was nine, her family took to the road for full-time music evangelism, traveling cross-country to perform at churches and meetings. They recorded several albums and even had their own summer show in Branson, Missouri. Dixie toured with the family from age nine to seventeen.
“I lived and breathed music growing up,” Dixie says, “and now it’s a passion for my own family.”

She married her husband Skeeter and moved with him back to Texas, where they’ve raised two sons, Josh and Ryan, and a daughter, Hope. Everyone in the Trahan family takes music seriously. “The kids play everything from bluegrass to rock,” Dixie says. “They’re as passionate about music as we are—they share our personalities and passions.”

“I realize that what I have begun here is a marathon, not a sprint. I am not expecting any short cuts… Nothing I have ever done has had an overnight result…raising children is an everyday testament to that…but the value of the investment is impossible to articulate…and the return…is even more impossible to describe. It’s priceless.”

Dixie has always dreamed of recording a solo album, but until now that dream has stayed in the closet—literally. “I’ve been known to take my iPod and hide in the closet where the acoustics are great and just sing.” Now that she has an outlet, Dixie is determined to make the most of it.

“Master plans are overrated and almost always have to be changed, abandoned or at least revised to the point of a do over…besides the adventure is in the journey! And I wouldn’t miss it for the world!”

When asked what she wanted to people to know about her music and where she’s coming from she had this to say…

“I think people want to be inspired…I know that I do! There are so many things out there in the big bad world to give you more than your daily dose of reality…and music for me has always been a place of refuge, a safe haven if you will. You can jump in and sing along with any artist and express any number of emotions you might be feeling that day…whether it’s anger, sadness, joy or passion. It’s the most therapeutic exercise I know of, and probably the cheapest! Everyone has enough reality checks in their life, and music is like the soundtrack that sets the stage for the part of you that wants more. Music does something that even the strangest or most dramatic of circumstances can’t always do; music has the power to move you. It reaches in to your core being and moves you…whether your preference is rock, rap, country or an opera…the beauty of music is not that it can save you necessarily, but that it soothes, it can ignite passions, it can inspire and motivate thousands of different people at the same time in as many ways. It can transport us to another time and place, and all without making you late for work!”