Acting

Ealie W. Dixon

Ealie Dixon was born and raised in Shreveport, Louisiana, the third largest city in Louisiana, 326 miles north of New Orleans. The son of Leonard Dixon, a truck driver, and Ophelia Dixon, a teacher's aid. Ealie attended Booker T. Washington High School where he excelled in music studying piano, guitar and musical arranging. After graduating from Booker T. Washington, he entered a summer music program at Berklee Music College in Boston Massachusetts. Ealie Dixon was born and raised in Shreveport, Louisiana, the third largest city in Louisiana, 326 miles north of New Orleans. The son of Leonard Dixon, a truck driver, and Ophelia Dixon, a teacher's aid. Ealie attended Booker T. Washington High School where he excelled in music studying piano, guitar and musical arranging. After graduating from Booker T. Washington, he entered a summer music program at Berklee Music College in Boston Massachusetts. After finishing the summer music program at Berklee, he attended a Marvin Gaye concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York City where he slipped backstage and met Marvin Gaye's manager, Stephen Hill who was so impressed with Ealie's professionalism that he offered Ealie a job working with Marvin Gaye's organization.