Michael Colton Dixon (born October 19, 1991) is an American singer-songwriter and musician from Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

[6] He was born and raised in a middle-class family in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, along with younger sister, Schyler.

[6] Besides being a choir member throughout high school,[8] In 2008, he was an extra during the filming of Hannah Montana: The Movie.

[2][11] His musical influences include Paramore, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Lifehouse, Evanescence, Switchfoot, Skillet, and The Fray.

[15] Guest performer on the Top 13 Results night and runner-up of American Idol season 10 Lauren Alaina named Dixon and fellow contestant Jessica Sanchez as her two favorites to win the competition.

[19] He came back to The Ellen DeGeneres Show to perform Billy Joel’s "Piano Man" on April 26, 2012.

[20] Dixon and fellow contestant Elise Testone performed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on April 27, 2012.

[21] He was invited to the White House Correspondents Dinner as a special guest of the Christian Broadcasting Network on April 28, 2012.

Colton says he wants his debut album to feature "faith-based music" without alienating a wider audience.

[24] He released the original song he performed on the Idol tour, "Never Gone", on iTunes September 25, 2012, which is included on his debut album.

This was his second consecutive song to reach number one on the Christian Digital Sales chart.

[26] On January 29, 2013, Dixon released his album A Messenger through Sparrow Records,[27] which sold 22,000 copies in its first week.

[citation needed] Dixon and Jessica Sanchez held a concert at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in Manila on February 14.

[29] Dixon appeared on the twelfth season of American Idol on March 28, 2013, on the Top 8 results show singing his new single "Love Has Come for Me" .

[34] On July 26, 2015, Colton announced via Twitter that he will participate in This is Not a Test Tour with tobyMac and Britt Nicole.

[35] An album, The Calm Before the Storm will be released on September 11 that will contain dual EPs, Calm, a collection of acoustic songs and Storm, a compilation of remixed tracks, that will contain songs from A Messenger and Anchor, including versions of "You Are", "Never Gone" and "More of You".