TRIXIE REISS WAS BORN IN OHIO. SHE BECAME A NEW YORKER AT THE AGE OF 5. HER PARENTS ARE BOTH WELL PUBLISHED POETS. FROM THE AGE OF 3 SHE BEGAN WRITING MELODIES ON THE PIANO AND LATER ON THE GUITAR AND SHE STUDIED THE VIOLIN. HER FATHER WROTE A NUMBER OF COMPOSITIONS FOR PIANO AND SHE WOULD OFTEN PLAY BESIDE HIM, WRITING DUETS WITH HIM. AT 14 SHE BEGAN TO BE A SERIOUS SINGER AND SONGWRITER.

HER PARENTS BROUGHT HER A FOUR-TRACK RECORDER, A MICROPHONE AND AN EFFECTS PROCESSOR FOR HER FIFTEENTH BIRTHDAY. SHE FORMED A BAND/COLLECTIVE IN HIGH SCHOOL. WITH THEM AND ON HER OWN SHE WROTE AND RECORDED A NUMBER OF FOUR TRACK RECORDINGS. AT THE TIME SHE USED A PROFIT 5 SYNTHISYZER, GUITAR AND A DOCTOR RYTHEM DRUM MACHINE. ON TOP OF WHICH SHE RECORDED RICH VOCALS USEING HER EFFECTS PROCESSOR.

SHE AND THE COLLECTIVE PLAYED SOME SHOWS IN SMALL CLUBS AND OFF-OFF BROADWAY SPACES IN NEW YORK, BUT SHE DRIFTED APART FROM THEM WHEN SHE WENT TO COLLEGE. HER PARENTS HAD ALSO ENCOURAGED HER TO DEVELOPE HER TALENT AS AN ARTIST. SHE HAD BEEN DRAWING AND PAINTING SINCE SHE WAS A YOUNG CHILD AND HAD GONE TO LAGUARDIA HIGHSCHOOL FOR THE ARTS WHERE SHE HAD MAJORED IN ART. SHE WAS ACCEPTED TO COOPER UNION COLLEGE OF ART, WINNING A FULL SCHOLARSHIP TO STUDY THERE.

DURING COLLEGE MUSIC BECAME A MORE PRIVATE THING FOR TRIXIE. SHE STILL HAD HER FOUR TRACK AND CONTINUED TO RECORD AND WRITE SONGS BUT DID SO MOSTLY IN THE PRIVACY OF HER OWN BEDROOM. SHE WOULD PLAY THE RECORDINGS FOR PEOPLE WHO WOULD TELL HER "I CAN MAKE YOU FAMOUS", BUT HER PARENTS ENCOURAGED HER TO FINISH COLLEGE, SO SHE CONTINUED TO FOCOUS ON ART.

IN 1994 AFTER GRADUATING FROM SCHOOL, TRIXIE WAS INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN AN EXHIBITION IN LOS ANGELES. THERE

TRIXIE MET THE CRYSTAL METHOD , SHE PLAYED THEM COMIN' BACK, ONE OF HER SONGS ON HER 4 TRACK DEMO. THE BAND FELL IN LOVE WITH IT AND ON THE SAME NIGHT THE VOCALS WERE RE-RECORDED IN THEIR HOME STUDIO.

TRIXIE BEGAN TO COMBINE MUSIC AND VISUAL/PERFORMANCE ART BY STAGING PERFORMANCES IN GALLERIES ACROSS THE US AND IN EUROPE. SHE WAS CELEBRATED INTERNATIONALLY IN THE PRESS AS A YOUNG TALENT. BUT SHE CONTINUED TO PERSUE MUSIC AND ANOTHER COLLABORATION WITH THE CRYSTAL METHOD TOOK PLACE IN 1997, WHEN JADED WAS RECORDED TO FINISH THEIR ALBUM VEGAS.

VEGAS IS APPROACHING PLATINUM IN THE US AND TRIXIE TOURED WITH THE BAND DURING SPRING/SUMMER '98. COMIN' BACK WAS RELEASED AS A SINGLE AND HIT #1 ON THE BILLBOARD DANCE CHART IN SUMMER OF '98. THE SONG HAS BEEN LICENSED FOR THE TV SHOW THE CROW, THE UNIVERSAL PICTURES FEATURE RELEASE URBAN LEGEND, THE TV PRODUCTION SOLDIER OF FORTUNE AND THE PLAYSTATION GAME NITRUS OXIDE.

A DANCE VERSION WAS RELEASED, REMIXED BY PETER RAUHOFER OF CLUB 69. IT'S ALSO INCLUDED ON HIS ALBUM FUTURE MIX 2. IN ADDITION COMIN' BACK WAS INCLUDED ON A NUMBER OF ELECTRONICA COMPILATIONS IN 1999.

AS WELL AS CURRENTLY WRITING/RECORDING A NEW SOLO RECORD TRIXIE HAS RECENTLY BEEN WORKING WITH CLINTON BRADLEY (TRENT REZNOR) AND INFAMOUS REMIXER MR. MIG (BRIAN McKNIGHT, LEE ANN RIMES), AND WITH DJ WALLY, AND WITH JEREMY DAWSON AND JEAN-PIERRE FOR WORD-SOUND RECORDS, AND WITH DR. KASH.