Tracy Dawn made her public singing debut in front of her church congregation in her small hometown in Kansas at the age of four. When she got older, she left Kansas for Los Angeles to pursue a career as a singer/songwriter, but found more initial success as a model/actress. She also seems to have fallen into bad habits before undergoing a religious conversion. This is the way her September 2000 press biography artfully puts it: "he city's seductive temptations began to fill a void Tracy Dawn didn't even know she had. The solace and serenity she was missing drove Tracy Dawn to ...