Grammy Award winning recording artiste
and producer, PJ Morton, is honing a special event album entitled, The
Gospel According to PJ (Morton Inspiration/Tyscot), which will release
in 2020. On it, Morton will showcase a who’s who in R&B and Gospel
music to reprise songs that he’s written for others, as well as,
original compositions. The first of these is the thoughtful track, “All
in His Plan,” which pairs the soulful vocals of Le’Andria Johnson with
the platinum-selling sister act, Mary Mary.
“Can I be honest, sometimes I don’t understand, why do you let me
fall when the world is in your hands?” Johnson sings with raw emotion.
She can easily be singing of her own well-publicized sobriety after an
intervention on Iyanla Vanzant’s Fix My Life television program this
past spring or any number of tragic world events that seem to occur with
more frequency every daily. It questions divine providence while also
conceding to its jurisdiction.
“When
I wrote it, I was working on it for Le’Andria,” Morton says of what
inspired him to pen the song. “I knew she had recently been through a
lot [of personal issues]. But I also knew that it was just a part of the
journey and all in His plan.” Eventually,
Mary Mary stopped by his New Orleans studio to add another layer of
poignancy to the track. “These three are some of my favorite voices of
all time,” he confesses. “I knew they all would sing it with
conviction.” It’s available for listening / download at all major
digital service providers.
In the coming months, Morton will reveal the remaining roster of
vocalists who will comprise The Gospel According to PJ. “Gospel is where
I got my start as a song writer,” Morton says of his decision to launch
this project. “It’s my foundation. It’s what keeps me grounded. So,
although I work on all types of music, I’ll never forget where I come
from.”
A ten-time Grammy nominee, Morton won his first Grammy Award earlier
this year in the category of for Best Traditional R&B Performance
for “How Deep Is Your Love” from his critically acclaimed 2018 R&B
album, Gumbo Unplugged (Live).
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