Morgan King

Morgan King is an English singer, record producer and photographer.

Musical career

Born in Spitalfields, London, Morgan's musical career began in 1979 as drummer for Manchester band Illustration, who were subsequently signed by the indie label, "Some Bizarre" featuring on the Some Bizarre Album. After several years immersed in the UK indie scene, Morgan's musical direction changed considerably with the advent of house music in the late 1980s. In 1988, Morgan moved to Chicago and started writing with Kym Mazelle and Marshall Jefferson on Kym's first album, "Crazy", which was released the following year. In 1989, Morgan joined his third band, the Manic MCs who had a UK top thirty hit with their first release, "Mental".

In 1990, Morgan started collaborating with BTech record's Jan Ekholm after being introduced by DJ/Production duo Quartz, working in Sweden on a series of Dance releases under various pseudonyms, including Technoir, Backbeat, Groovement, Bassrace and others. "Clubland" originally formed by Dave Rawlings and Ronnie Herel of Quartz with Jan Ekholm. During the first album Quartz left and the two remaining members were joined by Zemya Hamilton on vocals). Clubland recorded three albums, and received three gold discs, a Swedish Grammy, and topped the US Billboard Dance chart three times with "Lets Get Busy", "Hold On (Tighter to Love)" and "Set Me Free" respectively. It was also during this period he recorded his solo record, the Balearic Anthem "I Am Free".