PJ Morton

GRAMMY® Award- and Dove® Award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist, Morton Records founder, and Maroon 5 keyboardist PJ Morton quietly, independently, and humbly secured his position at the forefront of 21st century soul and R&B. Recorded live and released under Morton Records, Gumbo Unplugged garnered three 2019 GRAMMY® nominations—“Best R&B Album,” “Best Traditional R&B Performance” for “How Deep Is Your Love” [feat. Yebba], and “Best R&B Performance” for “First Began”—and brought his total back-to-back tally of solo nominations to five. A week prior, he walked on to the world’s biggest stage for a historic performance alongside Maroon 5 at Super Bowl LIII.

Throughout 2018, he composed the score for YouTube Premium’s Champaign ILL and penned the theme to OWN’s Ready to Love. He wrapped up a holiday album, Christmas With PJ Morton, which Entertainment Weekly dubbed “this year’s surprise stocking stuffer.” Selling out gigs everywhere from Spain and Japan to Seoul, Korea, he touched down on four continents during the six-month Gumbo World Tour. Plus, he grew the roster of Morton Records by way of flagship signings The Amours and producer Erick Bardales. In 2017, Gumbo bowed in the Top 10 of the Billboard Heatseekers Albums Chart. Generating over 30 million cumulative streams in under three years, he regularly averages over half-a-million monthly listeners on Spotify. 2013’s New Orleans received a 2014 GRAMMY® Award nomination.

In addition to figuring prominently on Maroon 5’s multiplatinum Overexposed, V, and Red Pill Blues, he has written and produced for everybody from BJ The Chicago Kid, Jermaine Dupri, and Jazmine Sullivan to Monica and India.Arie, winning a GRAMMY® for the latter in 2008. His compositions have popped up in films such as Couples Retreat. He has received Dove® and Stellar® Awards, published his literary debut Why Can’t I Sing About Love? in 2009, and become music director for Solange following the release of her opus A Seat At The Table.