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Keyboardist
Alicia McCracken Morgan is a New York-born, Florida-raised singer/songwriter/musician.
After high school she began her career playing Top 40 music before relocating
to Los Angeles. Moving to the west coast, she worked as a session
singer, noted for her raspy blues style, singing jingles and songwriter
demos.
She has a wide musical range that includes blues, soul, funk, rock,
jazz, and country. Her credentials include performing with such artists
as Al Wilson , Bobby Womack, actress/singer Sally Kellerman, rock-n-roll
duo Don & Dewey, Billy Vera & The Beaters (At This Moment ),
Matthew
& Gunnar Nelson, Delaney Bramlett, R&B/Gospel singer Tata Vega
(The Color Purple), singer David Morgan (Who's The Boss), blues singer
King Ernest, Peter Tork, and Chuck Negron (Three Dog Night). She performed
on TV shows including Roseanne, The Jeff Foxworthy Show, The Naked Truth,
Almost Perfect, Phenom, and Sibs. She has played on several L.A. Riot
sample CDs.
In 1995 Alicia contributed two original songs to the movie "Beyond
Desire" starring William Forsythe and Kari Wuhrer. In 2000
she was the singing voice for actress Caroline Rhea's character in the
Disney TV movie "Mom's Got A Date With A Vampire". That
year her song "Little Black Book" appeared in the movie "Bar
Hopping", starring Tom Arnold.
Locally, she has worked with the soul band The Scarletts and the funk
band Kontraversi, and is working with the R&B band "Some
Like It Hot", an all-female band at work on their first CD, and
being produced by Tony Braunagel. Recently, she sang as part of a
hundred-voice choir on the Neil Young album "Living With War".
Alicia is currently playing with Norman Brown, smooth-jazz guitarist
extraordinaire.
She is an instructor at Musicians Institute in Hollywood, teaching
voice, keyboards, and studio singing with ProTools.
She is married to the love of her life, fellow singer/writer/piano player
David Morgan, and she is a mom to their three children, Sam, James,
and Nancy Leigh, and stepmom to David's oldest son Evan. They have 2
Burmese cats who think they are dogs and a Dalmatian/Great Dane whirling
dervish of a dog who is afraid of nothing on God's green earth but trombones
and balloons.
She produces and records in her own studio, collects vintage keyboards
and builds computers in her spare time. She has been a professional
cartoonist, portrait artist, circus performer and fire-eater.
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