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or most people, Valentine’s Day is about making someone feel special. But Grace Morrison wants to do that year-round. While flowers, cards, and chocolates are traditionally valued gifts, Morrison is offering people something entirely unique. While she is busy crafting songs for her own albums, the Wareham native’s passion for musical creativity has been channeled into composing love songs on commission – a timeless gift that will last throughout the years “Everybody has a story and I enjoy telling those stories,” Morrison says. “It’s an opportunity for people who can’t articulate their experience through song. When you’re being commissioned to write a song for someone there’s more pressure than writing for yourself. The greatest
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challenge is that you want the person to love the song you’ve written.” In addition to releasing three full-length albums of original music, Morrison has written 20 commissioned songs for others in the last five years. Her first tribute song was written for the passing of her father, and consequently friends began asking her to write songs for them. “When my father passed I wrote a tribute song, and shortly thereafter when a friend’s father passed away she asked me to write a song for the funeral,” Morrison recalls. Morrison had entered a new world of songwriting. Since writing those first tribute songs, Morrison has written as many as 20 more commissioned songs, particularly for weddings, anniversaries, birthdays and holidays, as well as special occasions. One of those special situations was
Everybody has a story and I enjoy telling those stories
