#1 Best-Selling Author
#1 Indie Artist in LA
(Reverbnation, Feb/Mar 2018)
FREAK (Pop Fiction)
Over TWO MILLION PLAYS at Retail Radio
“L.A. Based Singer-Songwriter Morty Shallman takes a creative and intelligent approach to his craft which is so refreshing in today's music landscape. A talented literary and songwriter, Shallman combines the two worlds resulting in songs with depth and meaning.” (Whats-In-Store Music) His latest EP, the Neo-Pop, Indie-Noir Concept Thriller, Pop Fiction, has been called “Poptastic” (Buzzfeed), “Flawless” (Kurrent Music), and “a truly a ground-breaking accomplishment in conceptual music and art” (Screaming Match Productions.)
Known for his innovative mash-ups of pop music and pulp fiction, Morty Shallman has been writing and performing original songs since the age of 12 and wrote his first novella, To Exist with the Night, while still in high school. Morty is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Chicago, where he studied creative writing with renowned novelist Richard Stern.
After successful stints as lead singer and songwriter for quasi-fictional power pop antihero Andrew Ashbury and Chicago alt-rockers, Minds of Babes, Morty moved to Los Angeles, where he released four solo albums, created the world's first “Novel with Songs,” Last of the Zacharys, and performed at clubs from LA to the UK.
In addition to writing, producing, and performing his own music for his publishing company, Flying Bed Music/ASCAP, Morty has collaborated with a variety of songwriters, DJs, and Producers. Morty co-wrote former Nickelodeon TV Star Drake Bell’s hit song, Highway to Nowhere, which was featured on The Drake and Josh Show, Zoey 101, Bell’s first solo CD, Telegraph, and on several top-selling Nickelodeon/BMG soundtrack compilations.
Morty lives in Valley Village, CA, with his dog Primo and continues his work as a novelist, singer, songwriter, producer, screenwriter, and creative director for California’s premier political consulting and advertising agency.
