Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
Staying True to Myself from the Pews to the Stage
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- Expected Nov 12, 2024
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- $14.99
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Publisher Description
Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, keyboardist for the mega pop band Maroon 5, and founder of Morton Records, PJ Morton details the inspiring journey that led to his unique sound and urges readers to follow their own dreams.
The son of pastors and gospel artists, PJ Morton grew up singing gospel music in church. As he was drawn to R&B and pop, PJ experimented in combining genres to create his own sound that record labels struggled to categorize. Despite the pressure to conform, he defied expectations and risked launching his own label, Morton Records, leading to twenty Grammy nominations and awards.
PJ Morton is the rare artist who has straddled the tensions of life, whether in music or faith expressions, or in racial and cultural identities, while staying true to his New Orleans and Christian roots. Saturday Night, Sunday Morning captures his powerful journey of combining his two worlds, showing readers how to overcome obstacles as they seek their own dreams.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Maroon 5 keyboardist Morton debuts with a run-of-the-mill account of his faith and his musical career. Growing up steeped in the musical traditions of his pastor father's New Orleans church, Morton played in gospel bands and choirs until his teens, when a Stevie Wonder record "changed my musical brain" and inspired him to start writing R&B love songs. After garnering some success with his college band FreeStyle Nation, Morton initially struck out as a solo artist ("My songs weren't sexual enough to be R&B, and they definitely weren't gospel"). Success came in fits and starts until a chance audition with Maroon 5 in 2010 put him on the band's path to stardom and also accelerated his solo career (he would go on to earn a Grammy nomination for his breakout 2017 album Gumbo). Unfortunately, his successes and failures feel untethered to the meandering narrative, and even moments of emotional crisis—for example, telling his father he'd decided not to pursue a career in Christian music—resolve quickly and without fanfare. Only devoted Maroon 5 fans need apply.
