ROB MORGAN

Bassist
Photographer
Traveler
Whimsical Generalist
Mystical Hedonist
Curious Person

For a long time, music was my singular pursuit. Playing bass eventually became my ticket out. It took me around the world, playing music with people I admired, in places I never imagined I'd get to see.

I've spent most of my adult life touring and working with artists, most notably as the bassist and music director for a band called Owl City. Along the way, I've worked with Grammy-winning and multi-platinum artists, played everything from little clubs to massive festivals, and spent an unreasonable amount of my life in airports.

I've climbed the Great Wall of China, yelled at God from the bow of a ship in a hurricane in the middle of the Atlantic, gotten tattooed in the dungeon of a castle in Paris, been marooned on an island, jumped from a moving train in Belgium, and once beat a room full of Germans in a beer-drinking competition. [A “Maß” (1 liter) in under ten seconds, but I think I can still beat that.]

Somewhere in there, I started carrying a camera.

At first, I just wanted to remember the places I was going and the people I was meeting. Eventually, photography became something I loved just as much as music. These days I work mostly with film, photographing musicians, strangers, friends, and whatever else catches my eye. Some of those photographs have ended up on album covers, in magazines, billboards in Times Square, and in campaigns. Others just live in boxes in my darkroom.

I've always had more questions than answers. Eventually, I started recording some of those questions and the conversations that followed. That turned into a podcast called Rob Morgan Is A Curious Person, which has somehow grown to more than 600 episodes recorded on location with people all over the world.

I’ve turned thirty twice.

I live in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

I've found true love.

Everything else is just journal entries.