Traci Hines is a singer, songwriter, actress, model, cosplayer and Princess performer from Orange County, United States. She's known for her vibrant red hair, likeness to Disney characters, most often Ariel, and her upbeat, bubbly personality.

Music is Traci's biggest passion, and her heart's desire is to touch people through her music.

Traci began singing as soon as she could speak, and grew up singing gospel music in church, blues with her dad's band, Disney and musical theater in local theater and drama class, and her fav pop and top 40's hits everywhere in between. She began vocal training at 11 years old. She always loved to write, but seriously began writing her own songs in 2003.

Somewhat known for the emotional quality to her voice, Traci's singing has been described as angelic, heartfelt and even soulful. Traci loves a song with heart, and grew up gravitating towards ballads and love songs when performing and writing. Her most recent original uploaded to youtube, "Stay With You," is a duet inspired by the Twilight phenomenon. Regardless of her follower's feelings toward the books or movies themselves, the song has had an overwhelmingly positive response. Traci is currently in the process of recording it for release.

JPOP/JROCK & ASIAN POP CULTURE
Being a fan of anime, manga, and asian pop culture in general, Traci began attending anime conventions in 2005. Cosplay became a big passion of hers, and in 2008, she decided to try out for Anime Expo's giant singing contest, AX Idol.....and attempted singing in Japanese for the first time. She was chosen to be one of the 5 singing finalists, and performed Yuna Ito's Endless Story on the famous Nokia Theater stage. The entire audience wowed her with their support as she sang to a sea of thousands of waving cell phones. Traci didn't win the contest, but was named Runner Up that year, and was awarded the grand prize along with the contest winner. Now Traci holds concerts and performs her favorite Jpop and Jrock covers as well as her originals at anime and fandom conventions throughout the year.

Traci is also a part of the AnimeTV cast, a show dedicated to spreading the fandom of anime and asian pop culture, sponsored by Bang Zoom! Entertainment, an award-winning production studio known for it's anime dubbing and releases.

YOUTUBE
The YouTube journey began a few years ago, when Traci's dad saw some local artists featured in the paper after gaining some YouTube success. He was quick to suggest she try it out for herself, and although Traci felt, "a little awkward" about making covers in her living room, she figured she might as well give it a go. With a new apple laptop (a generous gift from her parents), she set out to "make a fool of herself" and see if it wouldn't help her along in her journey to becoming a recording artist.

www.YouTube.com/TraciJHines (covers)
www.YouTube.com/TraciHines (originals/vlogs/tutorials)

CHARACTERS
Traci is now known on YouTube for her Disney and character covers (some even in costume!) and her pop covers by artists/bands like Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Paramore. Most of her followers credit Traci as being virtually the first YouTuber to create quality covers for children, performing in costume as Disney and fairytale characters. She has since gone on to work for local companies as singing fairytale characters for events, birthday parties and galas. She currently works as True Enchantment Entertainment's Executive Princess (www.TrueEnchantment.com) bringing fairytale magic to children and adults alike all over Southern California!

MODELING
Traci began modeling professionally in 2009 for www.HotTopic.com and in 2010 for www.CollectifUSA.com, and Vans shoes.


WHAT'S NEXT
Traci released her debut single, "Fantasy" on October 13th 2010.
Traci on Fantasy: "It's different than anything anyone's heard from me up till now, and I can't wait to get everyone's reaction! I'm more excited about this song than anything else I've done previously. It's the brand new me that's been itching to get out for years...I hope it will be the kind of song everyone has a blast listening to and singing along with!"

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