Saturday 7 February 2015

Morgan Carey - the elusive brother

What do we really know about Mariah's brother? We know from early interviews with Mariah that he introduced her to Gavin Christopher who she wrote with, and hooked her up with Ben Margulies and Chris Toland for her first demo tape, which he later played for Seymour Stein, Billy Idol, and Nona Hendryx trying to score her a deal.

We know that she said ("He was my hero growing up") and that she encouraged her fans to support his artist, Skull on Twitter, but otherwise we almost never see pictures of, or interviews by him. Morgan describes his sister as, "the greatest female vocalist of a generation".

I decided to dig a little deeper and discovered that Morgan who modelled in Italy back in the mid and late 80s and worked prior to that in the NY Night life including at the coveted Studio 54 where legend has it he brought Mariah when she was only eleven years old.

It turns out that before Mariah's debut album was released he was already a celebrated fitness trainer in Los Angeles, had been featured in numerous Men's Fitness Magazine spreads and I found copies! Some of us knew about his Korean Reggae artist Skull who went #3 on Billboard singles chart but I discovered that back in the early 90s he had actually been instrumental in creating QUO, the first act signed to Michael Jackson's label MJJ which included Wade Robson of So You Think You Can Dance fame. An interesting side note is that Quo's bodyguard who was handpicked by Morgan and featured in all three of their videos was Michael Clarke Duncan (Green Mile).

I even found a link for What G's Do 4 Money, by another of Morgan's artists, Lil Rachett featuring LV that was briefly the #1 most requested song on Power 106 with a video that features Jenna Jameson, WBC Boxing Champion Frankie Liles, BadAZZ and, get this, apparently most of it was filmed at Billy Idol's house.

Morgan's interests these days are more down to earth, he is a devoted to Tai Chi, permaculture, and a sustainable lifestyle. Morgan lives with his beautiful wife, Ilaria Negrini Carey, in Italy where they are developing several film projects and a book.

(Rashmi Shastri)



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