Morrisa

Today we’d like to introduce you to Morrisa Jeanine.

Thanks for sharing your story with us Morrisa. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
I began in the arts from a very young age, starting with my first love singing/music. My parents had decided from the moment I was born that I was set to be an entertainer by way of casting me in Gerber baby commercial ads, local prints, and local tv commercials. I am the first born from my family, so I believe lots of dreams and aspirations were projected onto me from birth. Growing up in charter schools, magnet schools, private, public and moving around like a military brat. I’ve come across many people and inspiring stories in my life. I’ve developed a balanced skill set that has gotten me to experience nearly every aspect of my industry and business module. Being originally from Savannah, GA — naturally I am a sheltered introvert, expressing myself through creativity became the ultimate outlet for me.

By the age of 14, my mother moved us to the Atlanta area and I began writing and recording music professionally all while running my own online business, designing, coding, building community websites for small businesses, personal bloggers and music acts such as Mya, Bow Wow, and B2K — just to name a few. By 17, I was in college and a youtube singing sensation, the you tubers gave me motivation to embrace my true passion of singing and creating music. By 21, I had finished my journey with singing in girl groups, took a break from live performances and was signed to a music production label writing for bigger artist chasing placements for Leyota Luckett, Mary J. Blidge, Fantasia, Day26 and other up and coming artist coming into the Atlanta music scene. This allowed me to focus on high-quality songwriting; leading the way back to my own artistry. Unfortunately, I had to leave this production company due to a violent situation that almost cost me my life. I had then decided to work for myself again and go against the pattern that I was seeing.

By 25, I had officially launched a multimedia company of my own in which I named “Verse Union”; it’s set to be an entertainment search engine for the freelancers of arts and entertainment. While building this remote company, my own sound of music began to surface the streets of music lovers again and I had started a wave that I am now dedicated to. At this great prime age of 30, I see how my life has come together full circle. I now live in California and just recently released a new full EP’ titled “VISIONBELLE” and a brand new single titled “Tunnel Vision” produced by my (notso) little brother — I have the pleasure hosting and organizing songwriter workshops/creation sessions/showcases. The opportunity to travel to create events and platforms for creators like myself is one of my missions in this world and I am seeing it through.

Has it been a smooth road?
It hasn’t been easy, it really takes a lot of mental stability and everlasting passion. You have to know your lifestyle in order to commit to it. I struggled with that growing up in my craft, but what I have learned is that you have to learn as you go and take it easy on yourself. The biggest challenges is love, and being a hard lover. I have a tenacity of people pleasing and that has delayed some of the things that I had wanted to do. I believe that was all due to be not knowing or wanting to embrace who I am and what my position actually was in the bigger picture.

So, as you know, we’re impressed with Verse Union Entertainment – tell our readers more, for example, what you’re most proud of as a company and what sets you apart from others.
My company Verse Union is my pride and joy because it came from the inspiration of wanting to be the change I want to see in the world. VU takes pride in affiliating with those who are active in their passion and moving their movements forward. VU is the creator’s platform that allows it’s partners to explore creativity and expand in artistry. Verse Union is all about unity and bringing out the best in others by showing that all dreams are attainable — especially when one knows their purpose as a creator. We provide, produce and promote originality; we seek to connect with those who are willing to commit to see their visions through. We focus on music, film, and advertising for freelanced creators.

Verse Union the art & entertainment search engine + app — The consumers will have the pleasure of discovering new original content on a consistent basis — while connecting directly with the affiliated creator.

Let’s touch on your thoughts about our city – what do you like the most and least?
I love Atlanta for what it’s worth. I personally feel like it became over-saturated, but I am a Georgia girl at heart so it will always be home for me. I love the culture and community that has developed in ATL over the years.

Contact Info:

Website: www.verseunion.com, www,morrisajeanine.com
Phone: 8182109361
Email: verseunion@gmail.com
Instagram: instagram.com/verseunion
Facebook: facebook.com/verseunion
Twitter: twitter.com/morrisaonline
Other: instagram.com/morrisaonline - VoyageATL

Today we’d like to introduce you to Morrisa.

Morrisa Jeanine Elliott is a music creator; with her natural talent, education, and experience she has been able to accomplish many projects creating an independent movement of her own. Morrisa began in the music industry at the age of 14 years old writing songs and singing demos for upcoming acts. She had developed a sound for her music by way of creating groups of her own.

During her college years, she had again emerged into solo performing, releasing original songs for MySpace, singing live covers and creating remixes on YouTube; building a fan base of her own. She had been acknowledged and rewarded by many industry professionals in order to proceed with her freelance artistry, writing and perfecting her sound.

For a short period of time, Morrisa was signed to a production label based out of Atlanta, GA; there she created a songwriting team that opened many opportunities for the music group itself. Unfortunately, Morrisa was put on hold and prevented to release any music as a solo artist while still involved with that production label. She then stayed behind the scenes to continue writing for others, placement chasing and producing music videos.

Her peers would say “She never stops”; and that’s exactly what she did during her musical downtime. Morrisa’s music is still an undeniable as she has blossomed into a well-seasoned recording artist, songwriter, and live performer. Morrisa decided to brand herself with her given names “Morrisa Jeanine”; (MJ), and with this approach #TeamJeanine the performance team had been created; including backing vocalists, backing dancers, a full band, and a visual marketing crew.

As “Morrisa Jeanine” she performed in nearly every music venue, and rising artist showcases in Atlanta including the main stage at Sweet Auburn Festival for three Years in a row. #TeamJeanine also had the opportunity of playing the SXSW festival in 2016.

During these times Morrisa had released over five musical projects of her own working with original producers based out of Atlanta, Ga and remixing classic instrumentals.

These releases included “The Good Ol Stuff: Mixtape,” “Out The Game: Single,” “Year XXVI: EP,” “Real Simple: Single” and “Standing: Single.” Since 2012, Morrisa releases all her music independently under her remote multi-media label “Verse Union Entertainment.” In 2017, Morrisa moved to Los Angeles, California continuing her journey in creativity.

Since the move she has already performed 8 live local shows, released a new mixtape titled “VISIONBELLE” and a new single titled “Tunnel Vision (In The Zone)”; not only has she proceeded with her solo artistry, she has also created platforms for new upcoming artist who is new to the LA area.

“The Royal Bunch: Jam Sessions,” “Vibes&Lines: Songwriting Workshops + Creation Sessions,” and “The Souf Palm Show: Podcast Talk Show.” Now transitioning to become a one-named performing artist to avoid confusion; Morrisa drops the “Jeanine” from her stage name. However, #TeamJeanine is still an active movement, and Morrisa is still very well connected with her team.

Morrisa’s next big live show will be at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go this coming June 2019, during the 2019 BET Awards weekend. Morrisa is big on bringing the unity in community and works very hard at seeing their visions through, along with her own. Morrisa has a blog linked from her official website in order for her supporters to stay updated and engaged with whats going on with her movement.

Has it been a smooth road?
Overcoming others stating that I shouldn’t move to California because they wanted me to stay around to help them or because most people fail. It was very hard to hear these things from people I believed was supporting my adventures as I do theirs. Allowing myself to let their projections of fear be removed from my thought process was a long process. This caused me to hide and go deeper within to find the confidence to move wherever I want without validation.

In 2015, had been drafted back home to Savannah, Ga in which I found a lot about who I was. I was living with my fathers only sister – my auntie who at the time had gotten very ill with M.S. My Auntie showered me with pure love and support from the time I was born, I was very very close to her. It was unfortunate that I lost my dads only sister during these times of healing I felt very wounded and broken-hearted. It was already challenging in my own life then suddenly, I had the strength of my family to worry about, I took myself on a mission trip to Canada alone to gain clarity and direction.

Moving to California in 2017 was a true challenge. Living out of Airbnb and driving for UberEats to stay in motion with the adjustment from Georgia was a really big obstacle. It is beautiful now that I look back because I was able to apply my motto of “writing is a lifestyle” to write myself sane into better mental places and imagine better situations for myself in this new environment. Overall following your true purpose was never told to be easy so I can truly say that I am always prepared for the move just had some unexpected monkeys thrown in the wrench.

We’d love to hear more about what you do.
Morrisa specializes in vocalizing lyrics to blend with the sound at hand. One of the proudest moments for Morrisa would be the accomplishments she was able to achieve in California in this short period of time. Re-launching Verse Union Entertainment and exposing the movement to new like minds is a jewel.

Morrisa is mostly known for singing, songwriting, performing, producing film and project development just to name a few. Morrisa is different because she allows collaborators to expand in their artistry by way of inspiration. Morrisa is an entertainment philanthropist; she continuously gives freely to the art and entertainment community by always connecting the pieces to the puzzle.

Morrisa often hosts events to keep the unity in the community.

Is our city a good place to do what you do?
Yes, a great city to explore and stay inspired. Find events or activities that are new to enjoy or even better finding out that you can create your own platforms to have the best experiences possible — great city vibes to bring people with common interest together as one.

Contact Info:

Website: www.morrisajeanine.com
Email: teamjeanineplease@gmail.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/morrisaonline
Facebook: www.facebook.com/morrisajeanine
Twitter: www.twitter.com/morrisaonline
Other: www.morrisajeanine/mj - VoyageLA

R&B newcomer Morrisa Jeanine releases her new EP, VISIONBELLE, a project that sees the singer and songwriter vocalizing her journey to healing. The combination of harmonically-rich songs and cleverly-written songs embedded in Morrisa’s goal of motivating and enlightening her listeners makes for a superb offering.

A standout track from the project is “Perfect Day,” a song that features soulful and tender vocals boosted by rapid drum kits as Morrisa speaks to her inner child. - SingersRoom