Lacey Morrell is a singer-songwriter from Canada’s East Coast. Born in Stellarton, Nova Scotia, she grew up in a large, musical family singing Irish folk songs at family gatherings. O Danny Boy, Belfast Mills and Wild Mountain Thyme would be performed in living rooms, with a circle of guitars and harmonies. At the age of five, her parents enrolled her in piano lessons and she continued for 12 years, studying the Canadian Royal Conservatory curriculum. This classical training provided a backbone for her immense creativity.
Lacey began writing and composing songs at an early age, but her writing matured after the loss of her father to cancer in 2004. She began to use writing as an outlet for processing all that she experienced during her life. She performed on a public stage for the first time at her high-school talent show and quickly realized how rewarding it could be to share music with others. From there she performed at smaller venues around Nova Scotia. In 2008 she recorded a grassroots album, with vocals and piano, entitled Sing to the Heavens. An easy-listening collection of original work, this was her first taste of the recording process.
In 2005, upon graduating high school, Lacey attended St. Francis Xavier University and later Acadia University to become a teacher. Although the performing aspect of her music was put on hold, she never stopped writing. She shared her music with her students and, with the