Tracy West grew up in Clinton, Utah, where he enjoyed sports (football, basketball, soccer and downhill skiing) and spending time at his family's cabin. He started singing when he was a young boy. His favorite song was "Rhinestone Cowboy." "He wouldn't stop, he sang it over and over," his sisters recall. Tracy joined the United States Marine Corps. when he turned 18, where he was a light armored vehicle commander in Charlie Co., 4^th LARBN.

Tracy is now 28 years old, married with two little girls of his own. Lyndsee, age 5, also loves to sing, and appears to have inherited some of her Dad's talent. She started singing when she was 18 months old and started voice lessons at age 3. Karlee, at 9 months, seems to be developing a talent for dance. Ever since she learned to sit up, her favorite place to be is on the floor at her Daddy's feet while he is playing his guitar and singing. She claps her hands and bounces up and down to the beat.

Tracy still enjoys the outdoors and still visits the cabin when he has time, which is not often enough. Hunting, fishing and golfing are some of his favorite sports now (he's slowed down a bit.) Tracy doesn't like to pose for photo shoots because "it doesn't feel natural," and doesn't like to dance around on stage because, as he says, "it's just not me." Though he's far from a "Rhinestone Cowboy," he is definitely country from head to toe, all 6' 6" of him, and what he lacks in glitter and flash, he more than makes up for with the pure feeling in his voice. "It gives me chills to listen to him sing," says voice coach and friend, Michelle O'Connell.