Lotic (musician)
J’Kerian Morgan (born March 22, 1989), known professionally as Lotic, is an American electronic musician based in Berlin. Lotic rose to prominence through her involvement with the Janus Collective in the early 2010s as well as with a string of EPs released during this time. She was invited by Björk to produce two official Vulnicura remixes in 2016. Her full-length debut, Power, was released in 2018. Early life Morgan was born and raised in southwest Houston, in what Mix magazine describes as a "strong black community". She began learning the alto saxophone at the age of 12 and played the instrument in marching band as a high school student. She earned her bachelor's degree at the University of Texas at Austin. Hoping to compose music for film, she started her studies as a film production major and switched to a film major after two years. During her time at UT Austin, she was involved in the university's Experimental and Electronic Music Studios as well as the Intellectual Entrepreneurship program, where she served as an Electronic Music Composition pre-grad intern. Career 2009-2014: Early DJ career in Austin and Berlin Morgan first became interested in DJing in 2009 after seeing a Kingdom