Wess Morgan

Morgan was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi, on September 5, 1973, as Joel Wesley Morgan, whose father is Joseph and mother Yolanda, and he has an older brother, Joseph, and a younger sister, and they were raised in Nashville, Tennessee.

His music career commenced in 2006, with the album, Look at Me Now, that was released by Oak Tree Records. The subsequent album, Under an Open Heaven, Vol. 1, was released on October 19, 2010 by Bowtie World Music alongside Flipside Music, and this album was his Billboard magazine breakthrough release on the Gospel Albums chart at No. 10. This album had the single, I Choose to Worship, that charted at No. 4 on the Hot Gospel Songs chart, and was placed on the compilation album, WOW Gospel 2012. He released, Under an Open Heaven, Vol. 2, on December 11, 2012, and this charted on the aforementioned chart at No. 31. His fourth album, Livin', was released in 2014 by Bowtie Music, and this placed at No. 6 on the Gospel Albums chart.

Morgan was married for eighteen years to Betsy, they lived in Nashville, Tennessee, that ended in divorce in the middle of 2013. He married Danielle Walker in January 2014, she gave birth to his child later that year.