HARVEY E. MORRIS is the President/CEO of TUFF STUFF
Productions. Harvey is an Emmy Award-winning music
producer, gifted singer/songwriter, vocal arranger, actor and
professional drummer. Harvey's extensive, diversified
experience has contributed to his reputation as a consummate
professional in the entertainment industry.
Harvey was born in Bronx, New York to Harvey and Lorraine
Morris. Early on, his parents knew he was destined to be a
musician. By age 2, Harvey’s parents purchased his first drum
set to keep him from beating on their pots and pans. By the age
of 4, Harvey and his cousins were dancing and singing to the
sounds of Motown and Stax Records. It was clear to Harvey’s
family from that point on that he desired to become an
entertainer. Growing up in a household with God-fearing
grandparents, Harvey attended the St. Luke A.M.E. church in
Harlem, New York, and at age 8 began singing in the Children’s
Choir under the caring directorship of Yvonne Clark. When he
was just 12 years old, and under the tutelage of music director
Leon Tubman, also of St. Luke’s A.M.E. in Harlem, Harvey
recorded his first commercial for American Airlines. The years
to follow have been constantly progressing for him.
During those colorful years, Harvey has collected a patchwork,
quilt-like scrapbook with pages that continue to be filled with
tour dates, photographs, recordings, wonderful opportunities
and memories that have allowed him to share the stage with
artists and groups including The Main Ingredient, featuring
Cuba Gooding, Freddie Jackson, Cameo, Roy Ayers, Stevie
Wonder, Taylor Dane, Bobby Humphrey, Melba Moore, George
Faison, Allison Williams and Gavin DeGraw, to name a few.
Harvey has also tipped his hat into voiceovers for TV Land on
the Nickelodeon network. He has created music for Ashley
Stewart, a clothing company for women, and co-produced the
title track for the PBS television special, Voices in Conflict, for
which he earned an Emmy. Harvey has also earned SAG/
AFTRA credits for his role as “Phat Jimmy” in the motion
picture Begin Again (2013).
Most recently, and under his company TUFF STUFF
Productions, Harvey released his first CD entitled Harvey
Morris & The House Of Praise (2016).
Harvey’s objective is to empower people through positive music
and image. One of his favorite scriptures is Luke 12:48, “To
whom much is given, much is required.”
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