About Me
ALL HEADS TO THE SKY, SOULdiers & SOULdierettes.
Drop In And Listen To My Musically Engaging Talk With Friggin Fabulous Radio Host, Nick Ciavatta! Hear More Music From My Upcoming Debut CD, TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT! At anytime, go to (http://www.frigginfabulousradio.com), (http://www.switchpod.com/p3703.html) or (http://www.podcastpickle.com/cast/16203) Enjoy!________________________________________ What's good, family? It's me, Tom E.. I pronounce it...Tommie. I was named for my parent's best friend...Tommie. He was a Black man in Dallas who was crazy in love with an Italian lady. From what I recall as an impressionable, socratic Virgo male seed, society wasn't ready for that visual. People bugged out & disapproved. But here's what's really good, family. 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 kind of attitude up like I devour my favorites, collard greens & sushi! As for my parents, Carrie and Curtis, "To hell with what society thought!" Mama's & Daddy's whole thing was to provide their male seed, me, Tom E. Morgan with much love, 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 day of protest, poli-tricks & one man's determination to express himself as he chose. Flashbacks of "back in the day" is the soul inspiration for my writing and singing.
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ow, I'm a Brooklyn man. Living here almost twenty years! Recently, I provided the original songs for the short film, BADMAN, directed & produced by Tony Vinto & written by Ed Shockly. Check out the new web site & trailer at (http://www.badmanfilm.com)! "Tell A Phone" and "A Lover's Storm" can be heard in this film whic is coincidentally about a young singer who stayed true to the game. These two joints are lifted from my up incoming debut cd, TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT, due to drop (independently) this coming summer! ____________________________________________________________
___All songs' vocals were written, arranged, produced & sung by me. Like many singers, I love doing my own background vocals. I did, however, have the awesome 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 own arrangement of Marvin's "What's Going On". Grammy award nominee, Tom Hammer from The Family Stand (band) performed & produced this crazy throw back beat. Thanks, bro! The mad official-sounding beats for "Hey Boo" and "Tell A Phone" are from my selfless mentors...my dudes...extraordinarily blessed brothers, BEAT ROYALTY!!! This here groundbreaking Hip Hop/ Soul production team from Rotterdam, Holland is no joke! Lastly, the sickest of beats for "This O" along with "A Lover's Storm", "Live It Down" & the title track, "Tell Me What U Want" are by a young up incoming talent from Flatbush, Brooklyn. POLITICK! Important footnote: Every 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.
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have to say that I've been fortunate, given my performance and travel experiences, by singing with the likes of Johnnie Taylor, Me'Lisa Morgan 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, like the lyric in "This O" from my debut joint, TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT exclaims, "I Ain't Never Felt Like This Before!" PEACE POWER, SOULdiers.
Tom E.
