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                      The Surfing Songwriter

Camilyn "Cam," Morrison is a professional songwriter she’s known for her diverse writing style & lyrics from Country and Rock music to even World Pop, easy listening, Jazz, Cinematic, Classical, Ragtime Blues, Island, and R&B. Her songs have been featured on the radio, both nationally & internationally, in commercials, TV & Film, for non profit organizations including Make A Wish Hawaii ,Susan Cox Powell Foundation and others, she currently has a song on hold for Carrie Underwood, one in production for "Foreign Figures," who will be opening for Imagine Dragons this Spring and her latest Rock track written with frontman Neal Middleton for Royal bliss has charted in the top 40's and can be viewed here:  "Devil With Angel Eyes," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjzF8_Kn9lw ©Cam Morrison/Seaside Studios/ASCAP morrisoncamilyn@gmail.com   WHY? I get asked all the time why I label myself as “The Surfing Songwriter” it’s because it accurately describes who I am. Not only are they the two greatest passions in my life-but the similarities between both of them go hand in hand. There is a melody, a rhythm to the ocean, to the rise, swells, and release of the waves-just as there are in music. And listening to that, catching on to that -riding & writing that- is the key to both. So I just have unlocked that and have taken my two greatest passions to create ONE world.  Most people in the world are blessed to listen to songs, I’m however even luckier and incredibly humbled by the fact that songs listen to me. WHAT? What style of songs I write is another question I get asked a lot. My answer is simple- “Whatever comes,” or Anything and everything under the Songwriting Sun--and that typically means I write in almost every genre “under the sun”. From Rock & Country music to even World Pop, easy listening, Jazz, Inspirational, Cinematic, Classical, Ragtime Blues, Island and R&B. WHERE? Where I write songs has also come up. The answer again is simple-when I am not holding a pencil in my hand. I can be driving, cleaning the house, in a movie theatre, shopping, swimming, but typically the best place where I write or rather hear songs that come to me, is in a few of my favorite places, dreams, surfing, or anywhere near an ocean or body of water. WHO? Who do I write my songs for? In my eyes it isn’t up to me, it’s up to something higher than me, it’s up to the song. I strongly believe songs that come to me have already existed. One of my favorite quotes is from one of the greatest sculptors and artists of our time Michael Angelo he said, “I saw the the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” Same philosophy for me applies in songwriting- freeing something that has already existed. Like Michael Angelo freeing the angel from the stone, I free the song or songs from my soul.  I also believe that the songs I am given are here to serve a purpose to reach the struggling soul(s) in need of them at the time. Its an incredible responsibility and something I don’t take lightly. It’s a privilege, it’s an honor and it’s a humbling experience to be able to reach someone in this manner, and something I hold very close to my heart and have been very grateful for. WHEN When do I write songs? When the song is ready to be written. I was always taught to “follow not force anything,” the same is true when it comes to writing songs for me, whether it be the melody, the rhythm, the groove, the lyrics, or a chord progression just simply listening to the song and letting it lead me. I follow it I don’t force it, I let it shape itself. Almost like a gardener doesn’t need to teach a rose bush to grow, it just does, all the gardner needs to do is watch over and nourish it. That’s my approach to writing songs, as well. HOW  Asking me how I write songs is like asking me how I breathe. It’s just always been there. Something that has always been a part of me from day one and something I can’t part from. You wake up and it’s just there- breathing with me, existing with me- as an arm, a leg or your heart is. I wouldn’t be me without it. All I need to do is just really focus on listening to it more than anything else, and going to a place where it’s easier to free it from, somewhere where the volume of our noisy world is turned down, like I said before, usually these places are in my dreams and/or surfing.