Today we’d like to introduce you to Morgan Alexander.
Hi Morgan, we’re thrilled to have a chance to learn your story today. So, before we get into specifics, maybe you can briefly walk us through how you got to where you are today?
I came to Nashville on vacation. No joke, I had a couple of bags and a plane ticket to go back home to Oregon. I had driven a u-haul for my friend who was moving to be closer to her sister in Nashville.
By the end of the month, I found a job and even tho I wasn’t really doing music, it had always been a huge part of my life before I made the trip I had just picked up playing the acoustic and even written a couple of novice tunes, but on my first couple days in town, I visited a few writers rounds and even did the open mic and the bluebird where a couple of people had asked if I lived here and when I told them I didn’t, the both separately suggested I do make the move. So with my bags packed I unpacked and started life over in Music City.
Before I made this move, I lived and grew up in Oregon and the Pacific NW. My musical roots start with choral and Vocal Jazz mixed with a country radio background and career before I came to music city where I worked for my hometown station KXPC and even worked at Portlands Country Giant The Wolf KWJJ. Country radio is where I took to school leading and analyzing how to hit country songs were being written, recorded, and promoted. I’ve learned a lot over the years from many National acts and pure music pros who know how to craft and song and translate it to the audience.
In 2019, I began taking shifts and doing shows down on broadway and have been crafting the art of the entertainer while working and grinding to continue to write and record for myself and other artists. I was made to be in music city and I’ve only enjoyed my ride of a new full-time music career doing what I love and loving what happens when I apply each and every day to be professional and on when the mic isn’t.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
No road is smooth and if it is it was paid for. I didn’t come to this city expecting anything but even as I’ve been coaxed to drive down the endless road of greedy labels and people who make their living off of new artists and musicians.
The best advice I could ever give to someone moving here is to keep your circle strong and know if someone comes to you saying they won’t sign you, there is a 99% chance you’re gonna be spending a lot of money even before you record a single tune.
Trust what you do is what’s right and learn from the folks who’ve already made the mistakes.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I am a vocalist, songwriter, composer, and producer. I have spent over a decade being a radio personality for Country Music as well as Sports Radio in Oregon as well as Nashville.
I would say what sets me apart from others is my ability to make each performance unique and relatable with anybody who comes to a show. I’m not the world’s best singer or entertainer or songwriter, but in moments when I hit the stage I always look to read the room and even if I had a plan going in.
I find ways to change that plan and create a new course of music and entertainment I most likely will never duplicate. I think that is my favorite thing about performing, it’s that the variables always change just like the wind, the music can go in many different directions.
What sort of changes are you expecting over the next 5-10 years?
I think the music industry is moving in a direction of acceptance across all genres.
People you might not normally hear or see in a certain genre will begin to carve a path for themselves and future artists to cross into areas they may have not been in previously. I truly hope to see a reform in the pay for songwriters and streaming.
I hope one day to see great songwriters emerge and music grows in a more complete space, composition, lyrics that won’t just be the common pop but more learned and ear provoking.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.morganalexandermusic.com
- Instagram: @morganalexandermusic
- Facebook: @morganalexandermusic
- Twitter: @morganalexander
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/THEMORGANALEXANDER
Image Credits
Nathaniel Clayton
