The inspiration for Colton Dixon’s newest hit song, Miracles, came during a low moment in his life when he was unsure if he’d continue his music career.
At the time, he wasn’t noticing the everyday miracles that the song spotlights.
Miracles—which has been viewed more than 250,000 times on YouTube—is Dixon’s first new music since his album Identity was released three years ago. Dixon became a household name to music fans in 2012 when he finished seventh on American Idol, but after his 2017 album Identity was released, he was left without a label.
“Music was kind of up in the air for me for a second,” Dixon told Christian Headlines. “It wasn’t looking very hopeful. It looked pretty dark actually. And my wife said something that kind of shifted things for us. She said, ‘I know this looks like a setback, but what if it’s actually a setup for what is ahead for you and what God has for you?’ And I thought, ‘That’s really good. That’ll preach.’ So we stood on that.”
During that time without a record label, Dixon says he was “kind of forced to slow down.”
“But in doing so I saw all of these little things that maybe I had taken for granted before,” he said. “And I saw them for the miracles that they really were.”
Dixon’s new label is Atlantic.
In Miracles, Dixon sings about how skeptics say miracles are due to stars “aligning” yet he believes…
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