PJ Morton is a multi-GRAMMY-winning R&B and soul singer, songwriter, performer, and producer. His latest project, Watch The Sun, continues a spectacular run of genre-blurring releases and extends his considerable ambitions even further. In addition to earning four consecutive years of GRAMMY wins—Best Traditional R&B Performance in 2019, Best R&B Song in 2020, Best Gospel Album in 2021, and Album Of The Year in 2022 (for his contributions to Jon Batiste's We Are)— Morton has topped charts and received nods for numerous BET, Soul Train, and NAACP Image Awards honoring the six albums he has put out since his breakthrough, Gumbo, in 2017. And all of this comes in addition to touring with Maroon 5 and running his own label.
"(PJ Morton) runs the influences of Allen Toussaint and Stevie Wonder through a bevy ideas from R&B's more recent decades." - The New York Times
ABOUT THE ARTIST
“I’m being more honest, more authentic, more open than I’ve been in the past,” says PJ Morton. “Sometimes even some discomfort. As much as people know about me, I’m pretty private about specifics, but these were some real things going on in my life. So it manifested with lyrics that pushed myself—not just going with the first thing or the thing that felt good, but making sure that I challenged myself to go deeper.”
Watch the Sun was preceded by Morton’s hit collaboration with JoJo, “My Peace (featuring Mr. Talkbox),” a follow-up to the duo's GRAMMY-winning 2019 duet “Say So,” and one of many songs on the album featuring such notable guests as Stevie Wonder, Nas, and El DeBarge. Morton expresses special pride in the song, which was described as “a match made in musical heaven” by VIBE. “’My Peace’ is a duet, but it isn’t a love song,” he says. “And as a songwriter, those are the hardest ones to write—songs that try to say something, give a message, without being preachy and still jamming.” READ MORE.
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