Tracy LJ Robertson's
heart for the complexity of the human experience reaches us through his love of vocal harmonies
and over a decade of experience touring, educating, recording and facilitating in more and more spaces where people are engaging their voices to cultivate connection, release, and self-surprising creativity.
Vocalist, educator, vocal arranger, director and vocal percussionist Tracy LJ Robertson (he/him) enjoys working in a range of musical settings.
Born in rural northern New York to two Barbershop singers, Tracy found himself performing and competing in his father’s chorus at the age of 6. Through grade school he began playing piano, saxophone, drums/percussion, and bass, and performed in extra-curricular and community vocal ensembles throughout New England. In his teens, he began playing bars and private events with a steel drum band, singing and playing in churches, community theaters, and playing in the bass line of a small championship winning DCA drum corps.
After studying two years of classical voice and composition at SUNY Fredonia, Tracy transferred to Berklee College of Music on a full tuition scholarship. There he studied professional music and music theory, minored in psychology, and began to discover a yet unprecedented sense of community. Tracy found himself performing with and directing two-time ICCA winning a cappella group "Pitch Slapped", and performed in ensembles of global influence ranging from Balkan, to contemporary Indian, to Latin, to western classical and jazz. His path was particularly informed and elevated through study and work with globally renowned masters of Circle Singing and vocal improvisation, Joey Blake and Rhiannon.
Tracy has since found himself on stage or screen with Bobby McFerrin, Victor Wooten, Valerie Simpson, Dream Theater, Sabrina Carpenter, Andy Grammer, Justin Timberlake, Michael Bublé, and Billie Eilish among others, and performed at the Hollywood Bowl, Carnegie Hall, the Grammy’s, and in performance halls around the western hemisphere and Europe. Meanwhile, the acappella community has offered opportunities to tour and educate at at vocal festivals as a clinician and performer with groups like, m-pact, The Magnets, and now The House Jacks.
In Los Angeles, Tracy joined SAG-AFTRA, recording vocals for film and TV, and found himself performing and educating in a variety of settings, from The Hollywood Bowl to house parties, from beginner piano lessons to vocal improvisation in the jazz idiom at the collegiate level.
As opportunities began presenting themselves to work and facilitate in spaces like A Cappella Academy, Gaia Music Collective, and the Urban Voices Project, Tracy's presence to purpose with music was sparked. As the inspiration has grown for pouring more and more creative energy into spaces where music is explicitly supporting/instigating healing and empowerment, Tracy has found himself ever more excited to focus on facilitating Circle Singing and exploring and expanding upon various other forms of collaborative vocal improvisation. Through his project, Vocal Bloom, Tracy facilitates playful, thoughtful, and empowering spaces where curious musicians of all backgrounds might realize and further develop their fluency in the language of music while/ through a deepening presence to the creativity bursting through themselves and the people around them.
Now based in Ithaca, NY, Tracy continues to freelance, tour, teach privately, and give attention to the Vocal Bloom, offering Circle Singing and creatively empowering workshops and experiences of using the voice in his local community. Tracy follows the path of deepening and broadening capacity for compassion and authentic connection both through music, and an ever blossoming appreciation of mother nature.