Dixon’s roots can be traced from American Idol season 10 together with her sister Schyler yet both of them were cut off did not even reached top 24. Until season 11 came with the new power and uplifted confidence the Dixon’s returned again head high, the initial audition was done by her sister but later ended up requested to audition too by the judges Colton Dixon performed an original of David Cook entitled “permanent” and that golden ticket went on to change their lives.
Schyler’s painful cut off on the Las Vegas stage shook Colton’s perseverance to continue the journey, but still he was greatly encouraged by the family to just tick his faith into it and it did pay off when he sang Coldplay’s hit song “fix you” as his final solo on the final judgement until he ended up being on the top 25. Colton Dixon’s dream to perform on American Idol’s stage came to a reality.
Colton’s performance on the Idol stage was always an ace and for this reason many were shocked together with the judge famous rock and roll singer Steven Tyler on the April of 19, 2012 when he Dixon was eliminated, he lasted until Top 7 of that season. Colton Dixon’s sudden cutoff experience from American Idol created more fans and patrons, various producers gave acknowledge his talents and gave him opportunities to be known in Hollywood’s Music Industry.
GMA Dove Awards also gave him recognition when he won the “Best Rock/Contemporary Album of the Year in 2013 for his album “A Messenger” and so as K-love who nominated him as Male artist of the year that 2014.
His career skyrocketed but his feet remained grounded and until today Dixon is known as a contemporary solo artist who sang faith-based songs writing and now started writing and collaborating with Trevor McNevan, Matthew West, TobyMac, Ben Glover, Matt Bronleewe and also met with renowned artists such as David Garcia with TobyMac, Mandisa, Newsboys and Red Decibel for Switchfoot, Kelly Clarkson and Jeremy Camp.
Who would have known that Michael Colton Dixon from Murfreesboro, Tennessee would one day be known across the globe? Now Colton Dixon is with his latest album Anchor. He spilled on his official website his motivation for this new album he says that he would like to motivate his generation to always keep their torches lit.
He said after all the winnings and fame it became easy to be distracted and just drift on where he needed to be and that’s how he came up with the title “Anchor”. Dixon is now touring with this rock banner album scheduled June 6, 2015 on The Arena at Gwinnett Center at Duluth, GA up to Dec 13 on Nashville, Tennessee.
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