Minister Marion Hall, Gramps Morgan And Joe Bogdanovich Partner On New Project

Minister Marion Hall says she has a hit on her hands, and Grammy-winning singer Gramps Morgan and businessman Joe Bogdanovich are behind it. 

She shared the news with her congregation on Sunday.

“We got a new song coming out, courtesy of myself, Gramps Morgan and Joe from Downsound Records,” she dished during the sermon. “It’s a hit. I got it.”

The trio were captured in Nashville, Tennessee, in February at a studio with noted musician Tyler Cain.

The moment was more than a year in the making, as Hall said in December 2021 that she wanted to work with Morgan on her upcoming album. 

“I’ve also been talking to Gramps Morgan for a while because some of my songs for the album have that Nashville sound,” she told The Gleaner. “My daughter lives in Nashville, my niece lives in Nashville, and I grew up listening to country music… There’s also this Alabama sound because I’m a bluesy type of person so I reached out to Gramps Morgan and we’re still talking and he’s planning to connect me with some people, even some church people, here, in Nashville…”

Morgan shared his excitement in a muted Instagram post which sees Hall singing in the studio. 

“She finally Came to see me In Nashville!!” his caption reads. Tagging his Dada Son Entertainment record label, Bogdanovich and Cain, he continued, “People get ready for what’s to come @ministermarionhall formally known as Lady Saw BE READY WE HERE TO TO HEAL SOULS.”

Hall’s last public connection to Bogdanovich was in 2022 when his team reportedly wanted her for Reggae Sumfest’s Madhouse Tribute. She, however, maintained that she would only perform at the festival on a “gospel night”.

While she was tight-lipped about this upcoming project, she did talk about another song she recorded with Morgan, a music video for which she is gearing up to shoot.

“It’s a breakup song actually,” she said. “You know when you break up with the devil because you’ve been out there doing all kind of things and the Lord just speak to your heart and you tell the devil ‘I’m so done’?”

She did an acapella rendition of the track before speaking about its creative process, from scrapping a rap verse to recruiting singer Nicky Birch for background vocals.

“I don’t think Gramps like me right now because mi just say, ‘Tek out this, tek out that, do this, do that’, but he was so patient, even when I was frustrated… I’m thankful that he understood. I just love perfection and I wanted it clear and clean with not a lot of harmonies.”

Hall’s last buzz-generator was Sorry to Hurt Your Feelings, a fun, spicy record that addresses critics who felt she could not thrive as a Christian and gospel artist. Released six months ago, the music video has over 800,000 YouTube views, outperforming the prior release and predicted hit If I Was Famous. The latter ignited murmur of her possible return to dancehall due to some glamor promo pics, a fur blue coat and Hall saying she’s taking the gospel to secular audiences. 

The artist baptised in December 2015, retiring her existence as dancehall giant Lady Saw.