SOBO MAGAZINE ONLINE INTERVIEW & TV LIVE VIDEO CLIP!
' TOM E. MORGAN KEEPS IT RIGHT '.sobo magazine
Recently I Talked On The Tell A Phone Enjoying A Stimulating, Expose-Style Conversation With Online Music Publication SOBO MAGAZINE's Co-Editor-In-Chief, Christopher Whaley. He Asked And I Answered. Then I Began To Learn More About Me And The R&B Singer/Songwriter Trying To Make Dreams Real.
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FRIGGIN FABULOUS RADIO INTERVIEW!
Drop In And Listen To My Musically Engaging Visit With FRIGGIN FABULOUS RADIO Host, Nick Ciavatta. Hear More Music From My Debut CD, TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT.
(www.frigginfabulous.com)
WATCH ME PERFORM LIVE ON YOUTUBE!
(www.youtube.com/tomemorgan)
IMPRUMPTU DUET WITH SINGER/SONGWRITER MARITRI GARRET ON YOUTUBE!
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=KysYZ2-2LeY&feature=channel_page)
(tomemale2007@aol.com)
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Mad Love, SOULdiers! It's me, Tom E I pronounce it.Tommie. I was named for my parents' best friend.Tommie. He was a Black man living in '60s Dallas who was crazy in love with an Italian lady. From what I recall as an impressionable Socratic kid, society wasn't ready for that. People bugged out & disapproved. But, here's what's really good! The Black man from Texas (Tommie) & the Italian lady let their love for each other show and flow. It didn't matter how many lips dropped & eyes popped. As for me, I ate my name sake's attitude up like I devour my favorites; collard greens & sushi. LOL! As for my parents' (Carrie and Curtis) take on the situation, "To hell with what society thought of their progressive krazy in love friends. Mama's & Daddy's primary mission was to provide their male seed, me, Tom E. Morgan, with much love, a good education, sweet soul music, siblings who were singers, a lot of church and even more damn collard greens! That's what was up back in the days of protest, poli-tricks & one man's determination to express himself as he chose. Flashbacks of that love festive yet socially intense period are the soul inspiration for my writing and singing.
I'm a Brooklyn man, now. Living here over twenty years! Notably, I provided the original songs for the short film, BADMAN, directed & produced by Tony Vinto & written by Ed Shockly. Check out and enjoy
BADMAN's new web site & trailer at
(www.badmanfilm.com)!
"Tell A Phone" and "A Lover's Storm (Ooh, Na, Na, Na)" can be heard in this film which is, coincidentally, about a Grammy award winning young singer who stayed true to his game while rejecting the exploits of the industry. The two afore mentioned songs are lifted from my debut album.my first seed, TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT on Uncle Doc Records. Downloads are carried at your favorite online music retailers including iTUNES! Now!
All TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT's vocals were co-written, arranged, produced & sung by me. I love doing my own background vocals. However, I had the rare opportunity to get back into the studio with my sister from God, Sandra, whom I grew up singing with in Dallas! We collaborated on my arrangement of Marvin's "What's Going On". Grammy award nominee, Tom Hammer from The Family Stand (band) performed & produced the jubilant funky-groove filled music backup. The official-sounding beats for "Hey Boo", "Tell A Phone" [from the short film BADMAN] as well as "Ooze And Thank Uze" are by my mentors, BEAT ROYALTY. This groundbreaking Hip Hop/ Soul production team from Rotterdam, Holland is fiya! Lastly, the sickest of beats as in "This O" along with "A Lover's Storm" (Ooh Na, Na, Na) [from the short film BADMAN], "Live It Down", "Soul Eloquence" (9:03 PM) and the title track, "Tell Me What U Want" (I Ain't Psychic) were created and performed by a Flatbush, Brooklyn mega-force. POLITICK. All song's vocals were recorded, engineered, co-produced and co-mixed by Eddie Scissors at his 20/20 AUDIO LAB STUDIO in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
I've been fortunately blessed, given my performance and travel experiences by singing with the likes of Johnnie Taylor, Me'Lisa Morgan Sabrina Starke (Intro: "He Is" from Yellow Brick Road album) and the one and only, Sandra St. Victor. I, Tom E. Morgan, was humbled to have opened for Lenny Kravitz and D'Influence at the Zofingen, Heitere Open Air Festival in Switzerland. I've had the pleasure of performing in New York, Amsterdam, Germany, Switzerland & back to where it all jumped off, my birthplace, Dallas. But, as the lyric in "This O" from my debut, TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT exclaims, "I Ain't Never Felt Like This Before!"
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PEACE,
Tom E.
