Tracy Young's "I Rise" for Madonna received a nomination at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards, in the Best Remixed Recording category, and won.
10 Facts About Tracy Young
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In 1989, at 19, Tracy Young DJed at frat parties at University of Maryland and later was the resident DJ at the Hill Haven Nightclub in Washington, DC Tracy Young graduated from the University of Maryland with a Bachelor's degree in Speech Communication.
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Tracy Young began her professional radio career as an intern at the urban-leaning rhythmic-formatted radio station WPGC 95.5FM in Washington DC while she was still attending the University of Maryland.
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Tracy Young became an on-air mix show deejay for several of the station's highly rated shows.
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Tracy Young was promoted to Assistant Music Director and then became the stations Music Director where she remained for a year and a half before accepting a new position at Interscope Records.
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Shortly after her move, Tracy Young met club impresario Ingrid Casares who along with Chris Paciello opened Liquid nightclub in South Beach.
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Tracy Young landed the permanent deejay residency position at Liquid and during her residency she served as the deejay for many events hosted by celebrities including Sean Puffy Combs, Russell Simmons, Cher, Ricky Martin and many others.
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Tracy Young was able to land a prominent gig to deejay a party celebrating the launch of Madonna's film The Next Best Thing.
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In 2003, Tracy Young launched her own record label, Ferosh Records and she began serving as executive producer of the annual New Year's Day party called Genesis.
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In 2017, Tracy Young was tapped to remix the campaign song for Hillary Clinton's run for the Presidency of the United States Of America.