New York-born and Florida-raised, Alicia McCracken Morgan taught herself to play the piano at age nine. She is a singer, keyboard player and songwriter. In addition, she has been a professional cartoonist, portrait artist, political author, circus performer and fire-eater.
Moving to Los Angeles, Alicia worked as a session singer and has a wide musical range that includes blues, soul, funk, rock, jazz, and country. Noted for her raspy blues style, Alicia’s credits include recording and/or performing with such artists as Al Wilson, Delaney Bramlett, Bobby Womack, Sally Kellerman, Kevin Murphy (of Rufus), Don & Dewey, Klymaxx, Billy Vera & The Beaters, The Nelsons, Táta Vega, King Ernest, Peter Tork, Micky Dolenz and Chuck Negron.
Her TV experience includes Roseanne, The Jeff Foxworthy Show, The Naked Truth, Almost Perfect, Phenom, and Sibs. She has had original songs in the feature films “Beyond Desire” and Tom Arnold’s “Barhopping”, and was the singing voice for Caroline Rhea in the Disney movie “Mom’s Got a Date With A Vampire”. She has sung for Neil Young and Oasis, and played keyboards for smooth-jazz artist Norman Brown.
Alicia’s keyboard work for the Robb Brothers of Cherokee Studios was nominated for a 2010 Grammy for music from the movie “Love n’ Dancing.”
Alicia has been in the studio with legendary producer Richard Perry, playing keyboards on the Rod Stewart album “Fly Me to the Moon…The Great American Songbook Volume V”.
She was in the cast of “Heartbreak Hotel”, a musical about Elvis’ early career (the prequel to the Tony-winning Broadway show “Million Dollar Quartet”) as pianist, associate music director and Gladys Presley, Elvis’ mother. The show had its first performance run in the fall of 2016 at the legendary Coast Playhouse in West Hollywood. In 2017 the show moved to the Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine, and in 2018 went to Chicago at the Broadway Playhouse.
Alicia earned her bachelor’s in classical voice at Cal State Northridge in 2023, and is currently studying at Cal State Los Angeles for a master’s degree in commercial music.
Alicia produces and records in her own studio and has received a regional Addy advertising award for vocals and engineering. She taught voice, keyboards, Finale and computer recording at Musicians Institute in Hollywood and rock vocals at Los Angeles College of Music. She is a Hammond Organ artist endorser. Alicia lives in Sherman Oaks, CA with her husband, singer David Morgan.