Real name: Tracy Gail Dartt

Effective period / Period of releases: 1996

American gospel singer, songwriter and musician.
Born January 23, 1944 St. Paul, Minnesota Died April 7, 2022 (age 78).
He was married to gospel singer and songwriter Sharon Dartt (in 1964).
Dartt’s musical training began in high school. Dartt’s first experience in Gospel music came in 1960 when he joined a teen chorale, The Christianaires. In the fall of 1963. Tracy’s first attempt at songwriting was “Brand New Feeling”. His songwriting mentor was his quartet partner, Al Harkins. He moved to Oklahoma in 1972, where he accepted the invitation from Earl and Lily Fern Weatherford to join the legendary Weatherford Quartet. After the Weatherfords, he worked for a time as a producer for Cam Records and laid the foundation for Sound Factory Music Company. Then it was back to California, where he took up partnership in a swimming pool construction company.
While in the pool business, Dartt & wife, Sharon, helped to form a new gospel group with June and Dale Wade and Larry Brown, called The Country Congregation. Tracy began his solo career in 1975. He wrote the songs and sang them too, as his wife, Sharon, accompanied him on the piano. In 1988, Tracy began pastoring the First Baptist Church of Auberry, California. He resigned the church after seven years, and in 1995 formed a family gospel group, The Dartts.