Though her life began in Indiana, Traci Root’s upbringing was shrouded in cultural diversity. Living in different ethnic communities throughout her childhood, that diversity followed her into adulthood and has seeped deeply into her music, “My interest in music was definitely something that started in childhood, although I didn’t start playing the piano until I was an adult. I was doing live theatre when I was a little kid, around five years old. I got started doing musicals at a local community theatre, singing, dancing, and performing. When I was around age 11, I started playing drums. I was definitely one of those people in high school who just had relationships and friendships with all the different kinds of cliques. I’m kind of the same way musically.”

“Somewhere around age 20, I got involved in original music. I started teaching myself to play keys, to have something to arrange my songs on to get melody lines and lyrical ideas and concepts. Once I started doing that I started getting a little bit more serious. I’ve created my own little niche while crossing over to a bunch of other niches. I do what I call R& B fusion - it’s a blend of R& B, soul, jazz and pop rock. My genre would probably be stuck in pop; that’s where people would probably put it for lack of a better place to put it.

Traci launched her career touring in Southeast Asia for crowds of up to 40,000. While there; she recorded a song, “I Will Carry You,” for Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen. “I was living in New York and had been songwriting and had toured with an organization overseas in Southeast Asia, Cambodia and Thailand, and had the opportunity to perform in front of very large crowds and loved it. I knew this was what I wanted to be doing. But had no idea really how to go about it, so I ended up expressing interest to some friends and they connected me to some producer friends of theirs in the region and, the next thing I know, I was in the studio working my first project. I kind of learned as I went.”

Traci has found a passionate mission in the plight of the human condition, “I really care about causes and social justice and I found there’s an amazing marriage between music, the arts and entertainment business in general, and causes of social justice. It just really gives us as artists a platform to give a voice to the voiceless and stand up for things that maybe nobody else is standing up for. Or, maybe they are, but there’s just not enough awareness out there. I work particularly with two organizations, Love146 and Divine Inheritance; they are both working to end child slavery in various forms. I think there is a whole generation out there who feel the same way; they just don’t know how to get active or proactive about what is tugging at their heart.”

Settled now in Nashville with her husband, Richie, Traci continues to bring her unique sound to her multi-generational audiences, “All of us have a natural identity and purpose in us, and a creative capacity, and it just manifests itself in different ways. My main vehicle is in song. That’s one reason why I do what I do, because it’s part of who I am. Another big reason I love doing music is, I really love people and it allows you to connect with an audience and a body of people in a very real, unguarded and vulnerable way, where you engage people and you give something to people that they can’t really get through any other experience. That’s why I think coming to a live event is a necessary part of a musical experience.”

Traci is working to release her next full-length project. Her label is currently negotiating a Pressing &Distribution deal with Universal Music Group through Label Management Company, Indie Extreme.