Music documentry the making of Morris Mills

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Born the 5th of 7 children to a single-parent household in a sleepy community called Greenville, Texas, Morris was introduced to music at an early age. He and his siblings formed a band during his elementary school years. And Morris sang lead before he could ride a bicycle. When Morris was five, his mother married his stepfather. And the family packed up and relocated to the Windy City's rough and tumble west side. "After crime continued to heighten in the inner-city working class neighborhood, the family was forced to move to the suburbs when Morris was 13 years old. New kids on the block, Morris and his older brother quickly formed a band with a group of neighborhood kids. While making good music was their main objective, they were determined to snatch the glory at the local high school talent show. Unfortunately, during auditions the band was abruptly asked to leave. With lyrics like "take off your underwear and shake your body like a whore,' the song they chose, Prince's "Dance, Music, Sex, Romance," was deemed too raunchy. "It's nuttin like it is now where you see sex on television and you hear it on the radio," he explains. "Back in the day, it was obscene."

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