Singer/Songwriter Colton Dixon on baseball, American Idol and Jesus

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Colton Dixon is a singer/songwriter who placed seventh on season eleven of "American Idol." He began his singing career as a teenager where he also was a baseball player. Ultimately, Dixon chose music and is now one of the most successful artists in Christian music.

He is currently signed with Atlantic Records, and has released three albums including his debut "A Messenger" in 2013 and "Identity" in 2017. In 2020, Dixon and his wife welcomed twins into the world and in 2021, he released his latest single, "Made to Fly."

Today on the podcast, we talk to Colton about his experience on American Idol, returning to performing in front of audiences, choosing to write music that glorifies God and his decision to walk away from baseball to pursue music.

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0:00.0	Colton Dixon is our guest today.
0:02.7	Hey guys, this is Sports Spectrum.
0:04.6	I am Jason Romano, and I just can't wait for you to hear the conversation that we have today with singer-songwriter Colton Dixon.
0:12.9	Yes, the singer-songwriter Colton Dixon.
0:15.7	He's here today.
0:16.4	It's coming up right now on Sports Spectrum.
0:29.9	Welcome to the Sports Spectrum podcast where faith in sports collide.
0:30.9	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
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1:40.4	A stadium that can't remain empty. When you think about stadiums, you think about
1:44.2	concerts like Colton Dixon, our guest today, he's been playing concerts for years and
1:48.9	suddenly in 2020 those concerts stopped. And you may have seen Colton Dixon in concert.
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