Tracie Spencer is also related to Beyoncé, being that both musicians share Acadian hero Joseph Broussard of 1702 and Agnes Thibodeaux as great grandparents.
[8][9] Spencer attended Waterloo's Columbus High School,[10] graduating in 1994, having already released four Top-10 Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop songs (see next section).
Her self-titled debut album, released on January 16, 1988, produced the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop-charting singles "Hide and Seek", "Symptoms of True Love" and her remake of John Lennon's "Imagine".
1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop charts and made her the youngest female artist to receive the ASCAP songwriter of the year award in 1992.
The unreleased album was discovered in 2022 by a fan as a forgotten rare cassette only tape format with very few copies released for promotional use.
Spencer served on the board of the Children's Defense Fund as a teen and was given the Martin Luther King Christian Leadership Award for being a positive role model to youth and traveling across the US and abroad as part of a "Stay in School" program.