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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 ), smooth-jazz guitarist Norman Brown, 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 keyboards 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. Recently, she sang as part of a hundred-voice choir on the Neil Young album "Living With War" and on the latest Oasis CD. Alicia is currently doing keyboard studio work for the new musical "Baby, It's You", about the story of the New Jersey housewife who discovered the Shirelles and became the first woman to own a major record label. The music is being produced by the legendary Richard Perry. She is an instructor at Musicians Institute in Hollywood, teaching voice, keyboards, computer music 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. |
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