
Like musical desert, Rhetta Morgan sings rich,
sweet, memorable songs. Weaving strands of smooth
Jazz, Folk, African and African American music,
she sings of a world community that celebrates
cultural and spiritual diversity. Song crafting
with voice, piano, percussion and mandolin as
accompaniment, Rhetta writes and arranges songs
of profound expression connecting her voice with
the listener's heart.
Ms. Morgan was educated at the prestigious Peabody
Conservatory of Music, in Baltimore Maryland with
a focus on vocal performance of the classical
genres; opera, oratorio and concert work. Rhetta
continues to perform in the classical vein as
soloist with the Lady Chapel Singers, a group
that performs religious music of women composers.
With the Lady Chapel Singers, she has toured England,
Germany and Italy and is arranger, soloist and
advisor on their internationally acclaimed CD.
Presently Ms. Morgan performs her own songs at
a wide variety of venues.
Recent performances include:
People's Light and Theater, Philly Fringe Festival,
Philadelphia chapter NAACP, Freedom Theater, Wilkes
University, Awakened Heart Spiritual Center in
Hokesin Delaware, Center of Conscious Living in
Moorestown, New Jersey, Penn's Landing's Caribbean
Festival. She is a frequent featured artist at
the Ausar Aset Society and a winner of the Folk
Factory's Peoples Choice Award. Ms. Morgan completed
a very successful performance-presentation at
East Stroudsburg University on Martin Luther King
Day with poet Lois Moses, 2007. She is currently
preparing a Black history month concert/presentation
for the Delaware County Juvenile Detention Center.
Ms. Morgan teaches voice at Nazareth Academy High
School in NE Phila. and is a private vocal coach
and teacher. She is currently choir director of
the Common Ground Community Choir and Director
of Music at the The Center of Peace, both are
interfaith, spiritual communities.
For this year's Philadelphia Fringe Festival she
is co-creating a show entitled, 'No More Blues
Black Woman' with Lois Moses and Dr. Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon,
which is a celebratory collaboration of the lives
and triumphs of black women through poetry, song,
dance and mixed media presentations.
Following the path of healer, spiritual aspirant
and musician, Ms. Morgan will be attending One
Spirit Interfaith Seminary, in NY, NY, in the
fall of 2007. She is asked to speak at gatherings
and spiritual communities frequently and is currently
working on a CD of her songs with renowned jazz
artist and producer, Aaron Graves.
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