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Morley's artistic journey began not with music, but with dance and poetry. She won a full scholarship to the Alvin Ailey American Dance Centre but when a knee injury derailed her career as a dancer, she turned to choreography and formed her own dance company, Undercurrents Dance Theater. With her new company up and running, she had the opportunity to work with jazz legend and civil rights activists Max Roach, Ossie Davis and Babatunde Olatunji as well as Casandra Wilson, an experience that brought her face to face with the power of music as a vehicle for change. Morley is currently the voice for Ralph Lauren's fragrance "My Romance", she has toured with Dave Matthews, Raul Midon, Amadou et Mariam, and has shared festivals and the stage with Joan Baez, Leonard Cohen, Toshi Reagon, Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, Queen Latifa, Sarah Mclachlan, Cheryl Crow and David Amram to name a few…In 2009 Morley was an honored guest at The Nomad Women Festival in M’Hamid Desert deep in the Sahara and sang with Nomad women form Maurittania, Algeria and Morocco. As a writer, collaborator and arranger, Morley has worked with Eve, Richard Bona and Yuri Buenaventura. "Morley creates modern soul music - cerebral lyrics, sultry grooves and vocal sophistication." -Elle "This jazz minded pop chanteuse, soul sister, cosmopolitan home girl from Jamaica Queens embodies modern-day NY femininity in all its multicultural finess." -New York Times "Somewhere between Sade and Portishead, there's Morley." -Time Magazine "Morley's brooding; harmonically interesting low-key vibe is one that combines Nina Simone's coy wisdom with Joan Armatrading's vulnerable expressions of emotion." -Philadelphia Inquirer "The music of Morley... love, kindness and hope at every bend." -Daniel Lanois "Universal and spiritual conscious music for the 21st century." -Raul Midon "Morley is one of the outstanding voices of her generation, as a singer, songwriter and bandleader she's in a class of her own, transcends all categories and is making a major contribution to contemporary music." -David Amram "Morley expertly combines an earthiness, sensuality, etherealness, intelligence and social consciousness, and melds it into sophisticated, globally-minded pop that would easily fit into your playlist amidst Sade, Joni Mitchell, Amadou & Mariam, Annie Lennox and Marvin Gaye" -Bill Bragin "With no religious connotation, there's a mix of the spiritual and the sensual in my music", muses Morley, "I join them together because I believe them to be from the same source: love". |
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