"Native New Yorker Morley Shanti Kamen grew up absorbing the multi-cultural sights, scents and sounds of Jamaica Queens and it sings through her music and charismatic stage presence. This Jazz minded pop chanteuse, soul sister, cosmopolitan home girl from Jamaica Queens embodies modern-day femininity in all its multicultural finesse."

New York Times

During her tenure there, Morley suffered a knee injury that curtailed her dancing career but led her to develop as a poet, choreographer and musician. Attending Ailey she became fascinated with the interplay of dance, text andmusic. Morley co-founded Undercurrents Dance Theatre. While at Ailey she choreographed a piece that brought her to the attention of Jazz great, Max Roach. As a result he invited Morley to choreograph the celebration of his classic civil rights album, Freedom Suite, We Insist!

Morley began to take her interest in the interplay of music and dance more seriously and in 1998 Morley began to experiment with bringing her poetry to music, which eventually led her to the attention of other musicians and curators, as a result Morley was invited to sing along side Angelique Kidjo for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and His Holiness the Dalai
Lama of Tibet in the summer of 2002 at Battery Park's Summer Stage along with a few
shows at Joe's Pub and BAM Cafe in the fall. In early 2003, Morley performed with Bernice Johnson Reagon and Toshi Reagon for a fund raiser to benefit the Nile Day Care center, as well as Carnegie Hall with David Amram for Eco - Fest. Morley just completed her work in progress, self produced CD ; Symphonic Sky.