Morris Day's 19 year old son is an aspiring songwriter. I am new to the forums, but I figured this was a topic some people may be interested in. Kid has a voice on him for sure. Anyways the link is www.myspace.com/derranday hope you all enjoy!
[Edited 12/14/08 22:24pm]

OMFG that kid has a voice!

Damn lucky I'm not an A&R rep with ulterior motives... I'd sign him right away, throw a bunch of loot at him on the front end, make sure he wound up in a ton of debt on the back- therefore locking him into a lifelong contract with my major label!

Go Derran! And be careful out there!

*debates going to work for a major to make it right*


LP

Nice voice....reminds me of Mario

oh yeah, a voice he has! ! ! ! ! be slow about yer contracts son.

I was totally mesmerized by this guys vocals!!!!! I noticed that he doesnt list Prince in his Influences!!! Maybe the rivalry between Prince and Morris Day has overflowed into real life!!!

"Dontchu go gettin' influenced by Tha Kid, son!!!"

mamabeafan said:

Yes. Certain words he sings reminds me of Mario too, as well as Usher.


Very cool.

morris better watch out be4 he catch me under the oaktree wit him he is fine and can sing ohh baby yes i will try my best 2 get next 2 him down in atl

hopefully he will get signed or do his own thang cuz he sings better than his dad

mamabeafan said:

I actually thought about Mario as I was listening

Flowers2 said:

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Kid has a great voice.

Diddy's one of his friends.

What a nice voice! He is a hansome young man, I did not know that Morris Day had such a talented son. I wish him the best in his career.

Peace and love

Looks like his ole man.. and he got it no auto tune bullshit.

I like his songs. I hope he continues to follow his own journey and stayyy awayyy from Prince.

good singer! the song i listened to was . current but unique. and he's cute 2 boot! good luck young mr. day!

Just in case anyone was wondering, Derran writes the lyrics to all of these songs basically in partnership with his roommate Malcolm Parson at Berklee College of Music, who does the tracks.

IAintTheOne said:

Really? I thought I detected some of the telltale robotic sound.

But I did enjoy it. Interesting musical layers. Somewhat dancy. And not sexually over the top.

Allright morris e day a chip off the old block, wonderful voice he has sound a tad bit like dad, u go boy!

IAintTheOne said:

Get your hearing sorted out...there's autotune all over the shop. A bit silly, as I doubt he needs it...nice tone to his voice...

What wonderful newz

Carry that flag Derran. What a cutie.

The auto-tune you are hearing is used for added effect on the chorus in a few songs, but not used at all during the verse in the songs. Nothing more than an effect though, I'm pretty positive he doesn't need auto-tune's assistance.

323Ci said:

It is used in the verses.

323Ci said:

It is used in the verses.

How can u tell if he can sing? Autotune is used thruout the entire song.

yeah, Autotune on the really HIGH un-natural sounding setting, no less.

Just another note, these songs are not studio quality, most of what you are hearing was produced using reason and garage band and the vocals were sang directly into a macbook pro using the built in microphone, and recorded in a dorm room. So it is not professionally produced or mixed or anything of that nature. Just something else to take into consideration before things get said like too much auto tune and "how do you know if he can sing" etc. etc.

IAintTheOne said:

323Ci said:

Supportive brother are we


I checked out his stuff... not bad... not bad at all.

BigDaddyHQ said:

Hah I try to be!

BigDaddyHQ said:

323Ci said:

For a built in mic, this sounds really good.

Best of luck to your brother, and yourself