Morrisson
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Morrisson is an American dance music, house music
House music
House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino American, and gay communities; first in Chicago circa 1984, then in other...

 singer, songwriter, producer and actor. A California native based in San Francisco Bay Area, he was discovered by house music veteran DJ/Producer Julius Papp
Julius Papp
Julius Papp is a house music producer and DJ whose roots lie in Disco of the '70s and New Wave of the '80s.Papp was born and raised in Montreal, Canada, and got tuned into dance music through the city’s flourishing club scene and diverse radio broadcasts...

 and hired to do vocal session and songwriting work for Julius' NeoDisco label releases.

Morrisson's first solo release on his own Ovation Music Recordings label, was a 131bpm, high-energy, disco-house
Styles of house music
House music & Sub-genres:*Acid House: A Chicago derivative built around the Roland TB-303 bassline machine. Hard, uncompromising, tweaking samples produce a hypnotic effect. ex: Adonis, L.A. Williams...

 track called "Love of My Life", which reached #15 on the Billboard Magazine Hot Dance Airplay
Hot Dance Airplay
Dance/Mix Show Airplay is a monitored electronic dance music radio chart that is featured weekly in Billboard magazine. The chart came about as a result of the small but influential impact of electronic dance music on the radio in the United States and the stations that program it...

 in February 2006. It is featured on the dance mix compilation Ultra.Weekend 2
Ultra.Weekend 2
Ultra. Weekend 2 is a dance compilation album from Ultra Records, released as part of the label's Ultra.Weekend series. It was released on May 30, 2006 and was mixed by DJ Lil' Cee & Trevor Simpson...

. However, he eventually found his niche in deep, soulful house
Deep house
Deep house is a subgenre of house music that fuses elements of Chicago house into the 1980s jazz-funk and touches of soul music. In the early compositions , influences of jazz music were most frequently brought out by using more complex chords than simple triads which are held for many bars and...

 and has since written and produced several tracks in that sub-genre of dance music. Morrisson continues collaborations with Julius Papp
Julius Papp
Julius Papp is a house music producer and DJ whose roots lie in Disco of the '70s and New Wave of the '80s.Papp was born and raised in Montreal, Canada, and got tuned into dance music through the city’s flourishing club scene and diverse radio broadcasts...

, Vincent Kwok, DJ MFR, Groove Junkies
Groove junkies
Groove Junkies is American house record producer and DJ based out of Los Angeles, CA. "Groove Junkies" consists of founding member Evan Landes who produces House, Soul and is popular in Europe, Australia, UK, China, Japan, and USA. Groove Junkies is considered a leader of the soulful house movement...

, Franky Boissy, DJ Smash
DJ Smash
DJ Smash aka Smash Hunter is a DJ, music producer, remixer and project consultant.- Background :...

, Colin Sales, Dario D'Attis, Haldo, Lenny Fontana
Lenny Fontana
Lenny Fontana is an American house music DJ from New York City.Fontana first began deejaying professionally in the mid-1980s, playing at clubs such as Garage and Better Days. His first major exposure was with the track "A Mystical Journey", which hit #30 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club/Play...

, and Thomas DeLorenzo. He has releases on various house music labels including NeoDisco (SF), Eight-Fifteen (SF), Transport Recordings (SF), Celebrity Recordings (Minn), Swank Recordings, Onethirty (Minn), Universe Media (U.K.) and Myna Recordings (U.K.). He frequently performs live in California as well as having performed around the world in such places as Playa del Carmen, Mexico; Seoul, South Korea; Singapore, Thailand; Shanghai and more. His full-length debut album "After My Love" was released in 2009.
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