Biography  

Morgan shares a birthday with the famous classical pianist and composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.  Since before she could read, she wanted to be a writer and describes crying at five years old after flipping through a book and realizing she did not have the means yet to escape into this fantasy world.  “Although I started playing piano at 3 or 4, my first dream was to be a writer, and I think this is why my lyrics carry such a high emphasis in my songs,” she says.  Her mother was a church pianist for many years and as a young girl Morgan would attend many times a week to accompany her mother to choir practices, praise band rehearsal, and Sunday and Wednesday services.  “I crawled under the pews and listened to the music from a place where no one could get to me.  That's one thing I like about music; it takes you away to search inside yourself.”

Morgan began studying classical piano with a teacher at the age of five and went on to study at the Music Academy of North Carolina (then called the Greensboro Music Academy).  She studied there for many years until the age of 16, and competed in annual competitions.  “After that, for about 2 years, I took a break and rarely touched a piano.  I got distracted, and although I can't regret that period because it brought me some of my songs, it was a very lonely and soulless time.  In 2005, my then boyfriend burned me a CD with a Tori Amos song on it called “Mother” and that was the beginning of me coming back to the piano.  That was the best thing anybody could have ever done for me.”

An English major for the first two years of her college education at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Morgan auditioned for the music school at the beginning of her third year and after being accepted, switched her major to music.  Although Morgan didn't continue on the classical path, her writing still echoes the classical style.  You can hear hints of Beethoven and Mozart like whispers behind the scenes.  It is alternative meets classical meets rock meets pop meets experimental.  A graduate from the University of North Carolina 's School of Music in December 2007, Morgan intends to continue living a life devoted to music by teaching piano, composing and producing new music, and touring.  With her first E.P. entitled “Fragile Little Me” that she produced herself, she certainly has a good start.  Morgan writes predominately pianistically centered lyrical ballads with words of sharp honesty that bare the soul and tell a story.  “Each song tells a story.  Maybe it's real, maybe it's not, or maybe only part of it is real.  If I was going through a really tough time, I'd go to the piano and work it out there, because that was really one of the only places I felt comfortable revealing emotions.”