"[1][2] Born in Dayton, Ohio, Morrison sang and played piano as a child, soon learning a range of other instruments and becoming a school choir director and orchestra conductor.

[3] In 1970, he joined the funk band the Ohio Players, becoming a producer, writer, keyboardist and vocalist involved in some of their major hits and the albums Pain, Pleasure, and Ecstasy.

[1] He left the band in 1974 to release three solo albums on Westbound Records, on which he played all the instruments,[3] credited as Junie – When We Do, Freeze, and Suzie Supergroupie.

After his time with Parliament-Funkadelic, Morrison recorded three solo albums in the eighties including 1980's Bread Alone, 1981's Junie 5, and 1984's Evacuate Your Seats.

Morrison relocated to London, England in the late 1980s and founded the Akashic record label with his wife Kate Garner.