Pj Morton – Bio, Married, Wife, Net Worth, Other Facts You Need to Know
Paul Morton Jr. hails from a family of clergymen and he was born on the 29th of March 1981, to the famous gospel musician Paul S. Morton and Dr. Debra Brown Morton at New Orleans, Louisiana. He has 2 siblings named Jasmine and Christian but not much is known about them. Morton was a student of St. Augustine High School and he later enrolled in Morehouse College where he earned a degree in Marketing, graduating in 2003.
At an early age, PJ largely influenced by his musician family especially his father, picked interest in music by learning musical instruments like the keyboard and singing in their church choir.
His first independent album Emotions dropped in 2005 and it was considered one of the best soul songs that year. He followed it up with his 2007 Perfect Song, as well as writing songs for other big shots in the music industry, some of who are Kierra Kiki Sheard, India Arie, LL Cool J, Jagged Edge, Monica, Fred Hammond, Brian Courtney Wilson among others.
As a musician, he added to the soundtrack of Sajna and created the soundtrack of Couples Retreat film but his career took off after he auditioned and got picked by the Maroon 5 to replace their band keyboardist, Jesse Carmichael who had taken time off the band for his personal retreat. Morton Jr. made an impression on the team thus he became part of their tours in 2010 and eventually he was made a full member 2 years after in 2012.
His presence in the group was firmly established after he joined the members in the creation of their studio albums titled Overexposed (2012), V (2014) and Red Pill Blues (2017).
He also continued exploring and working on his personal music projects releasing songs which got him signed into the record label Young Money Entertainment in 2011 after his music style and talent got the notice of the then, Young Money Cash Money Billionaire (YMCMB) president, Mack Maine.
The following year, his extended play Following My First Mind was released in May 2012 containing the lead song Heavy in which James Valentine and Adam Levine made their appearances. Other featured arts are Lil Wayne, Jazmine Sullivan among others. He intensified his efforts on his solo career, birthing his first album New Orleans in 2013 with its main song Only One that he collaborated with Stevie Wonder, getting him Grammy nomination for Best R and B song in 2014.
Determined to record his next sets of songs in his own studio, PJ Morton opened his own record label company called Morton Records in 2016, which he hopes will replicate the work done by famous Motown Records years ago. He thereafter, churned out a mixtape Bounce & Soul Volume 1, EP Sticking To My Guns, all in 2016 and his album Gumbo in April 2017. The album received positive reviews and even got nominated in 2 categories of the Grammy awards in January 2018, although it failed to charts on the billboards.
In 2018, the multi-talented instrumentalist recorded Christmas With PJ Morton and a live album titled Gumbo Unplugged which was equally nominated for Grammy award set to hold on February 10 with 2019, along with his other songs First Began and How Deep Is Your Love alongside his group’s hit song Girls Like You.
The talented pop, R and B singer has also authored a book titled; Why I Can’t Say About Love in 2009. Moreover, the record label boss got the lifetime opportunity of performing along with Maroon 5 members at the half time of the Super Bowl LIII on 3rd February 2019.
