{"id":15676,"date":"2020-02-02T20:06:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T01:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=15676"},"modified":"2020-02-01T23:36:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T04:36:17","slug":"listen-up-t-c-williams-alum-tracy-young-becomes-the-first-female-to-win-a-grammy-in-the-remix-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=15676","title":{"rendered":"Listen Up: T.C. Williams Alum Tracy Young Becomes the First Female to Win a Grammy in the Remix Category"},"content":{"rendered":"
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T.C. Williams High School alum Tracy Young made history last week when she became the first woman to win a Grammy music award in the Best Remixed Recording category.<\/p>\n

The influential Titan, who graduated in 1988, was recognized for her remix of Madonna\u2019s single \u201cI Rise\u201d at the annual ceremony in Los Angeles on January 26.<\/p>\n

Last week, she told ACPS she had fond memories of her high school days which she said taught her \u201cabout the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Growing up and attending T.C. Williams was something that was very special to me!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“I learned how to survive in the world before I knew anything about the world. It taught me to interact with people from all walks of life and different cultural upbringings due to the diversity.”<\/p>\n

“I still keep in touch with my friends who I met there and consider them family. I loved being Senior Class President and enjoyed putting together an assembly performance by Chuck Brown for a Say No To Drugs concert.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Tracy Young as a senior at T.C. Williams High School<\/p><\/div>\n

She is well remembered by her former principal, John Porter, who explained she was part of a group of students who won a radio competition to bring Brown, the Godfather of Go-Go, to play in the auditorium.<\/p>\n

\u201dI was delighted to hear about Tracy\u2019s historic success and, as her former principal, I am very proud of her achievement. She is yet another Titan going out into the world and reaching amazing heights,” Porter said.<\/p>\n

\u201dI remember so well the special assembly and how excited the students were that they had organized this event.\u201d<\/p>\n

Young has told of the moment when her name was called out at the prestigious award ceremony.<\/p>\n

Speaking to DJ Times<\/a>, the music industry publication, she said, \u201cI was in the far back of the room, so when they called my name I had this long walk. It was so overwhelming. I was in shock and I cried all the way up.\u201d<\/p>\n

On stage, she thanked her family and friends and the LGBTQ community for their support.<\/p>\n

“We made history, ladies. I proudly accept this on behalf of all female producers who have been overlooked,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She also thanked Madonna, \u201cfor all the opportunities and recognition over many, many years \u2014 I\u2019m overwhelmed with gratitude to you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Young, 49, started her music career after graduating from T.C. in 1988. She got a job at the DC radio station WPGC 95.5 FM as a mix show DJ, spinning hip hop.<\/p>\n

At the time, a female DJ was almost unheard of and she quickly rose up the ranks to become the station\u2019s music director before moving to Miami, where she now lives.<\/p>\n

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Photo\/Mike Ruiz<\/p><\/div>\n

Young first met Madonna in the mid 1990s and was hired by her to perform at her wedding to Guy Ritchie.<\/p>\n

She credits Madonna\u2019s support as leading her to remix songs by Britney Spears, Beyonc\u00e9, Christina Aguilera and Cher.<\/p>\n

Young has remixed more than 100 artists and produced seven compilations on her own label, FEROSH.<\/p>\n

The mayor of Miami has declared December 11 \u2018Tracy Young Day\u2019 in Miami in recognition of her talent.<\/p>\n

Hear her award-winning remix of \u201cI Rise\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tracy Young, a groundbreaking talent, gives credit to the diversity of T.C. Williams for teaching her about the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":15703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3,40,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acps","category-achs","category-alumni-profile","category-awards"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-01 09:17:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15676"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15739,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15676\/revisions\/15739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}