Chris Hawkes

In 2011, Miranda Dawn and Hawkes collaborated for the recording of Dawn's debut album, Reason to Feel Alive.^[13]

Dawn was recognized as a finalist in the Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk songwriting competition for her songs "Forever Happily" and "Made to Roam"^[14] and performed with Hawkes at the festival in May 2012. Dawn and Hawkes continued co-writing and touring together and released a collaborative effort, Golden Heart, in June 2012.

In 2013, the duo auditioned for season 6 of the American reality talent show The Voice. Their audition was broadcast on NBC on February 24, 2014. Adam Levine and Shakira pressed the "I Want You" button, turning their chairs.

Their iTunes single for "I've Just Seen A Face" charted No. 1 in iTunes Rock sales and No. 22 across all genres, selling 24,000 copies in the first week as a Billboard charts "Hot Shot Debut".^[15][16] Their previously released "Golden Heart" EP followed.^[17]

Dawn and Hawkes toured throughout 2014 including Levitt Pavilion in Arlington, Texas to capacity crowd,^[17] California tour and appearances on Season 7 of The Voice supporting their friend Luke Wade's audition,^[18] harmony vocals with Jimmy LaFave on Looking Into You: A Tribute to Jackson Browne,^[19] summer tour with Austin, TX singer-songwriter Bob Schneider,^[20] performances at Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas,^[21] Austin City Limits soundstage at Moody Theater,^[22] Austin City Limits Music Festival,^[23][24] and performances with Chris Isaak,^[25] Patty Griffin,^[26] Jim Lauderdale,^[27] Robert Earl Keen, Hayes Carll and former host of The Tonight Show, Jay Leno.^[21]

The duo continued touring throughout 2015 with appearances at music festivals like Folk Alliance International and South by Southwest while recording their first full-length album Yours and Mine.^[28]

Dawn and Hawkes announced their marriage with the release of their new music video and single, "Yours and Mine", on August 21, 2015, via Huffington Post.^[29] Their full-length album, also titled Yours and Mine, went on sale October 2 and followed with a second video release "Almost Mine" from Texas Monthly,^[30] and third video for "Silver Line" from Acoustic Guitar.^[31]

Miranda Dawn and Chris Hawkes recorded music and vocals for Daytime Emmy Award winning 2016 StoryBots series Ask The Story Bots and StoryBots Super Songs^[32]

Dawn and Hawkes appeared, individually and together, in the 2017 documentary film, Albert E. Brumley: Songwriter of the Ozarks^[32]

The duo stored their possessions and lived on the road full-time while starting their second full-length album The Other Side, released July 6, 2018.^[33] The first video from the album, 'Trees' premiered on Billboard.^[34]

Hawkes studied audio engineering at the Dallas Sound Lab in Las Colinas,^[35] interned with Grammy Award winning producer Eric Delegard^[36] and became an engineer for the University of North Texas College of Music.^[37]

In 2004, Hawkes established One Road Studio, for the recording and production of his own bands and other regional acts.^[38] In 2006 Hawkes partnered with Disclive, a Dallas-based recording company, to record live performances of Thirty Seconds to Mars, Flyleaf, The Toadies, Sonic Youth, Cooder Graw, Spoonfed Tribe, and Edgewater.^[39]