ON AIR: Weekends, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.A graduate of Georgetown Universitys McDonough School of Business, Morris W. OKelly (MoKelly) is a long-time music industry professional, specializing in every genre from classical to hip hop music. Over the years hes traversed the wide expanse of entertainment companies from the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, NARAS (the Grammys), to numerous record labels along the way including; Capitol, Virgin, Warner Bros. and Interscope.In addition, in 1996 he began branching out into entertainment journalism, scribing for newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals.
After a number of critically acclaimed Op/Ed pieces in the Los Angeles Times, he decided to combine his love of writing and media production.Among his awards for his contributions on and off the page, OKelly was recognized by Ebony magazine as a Superbachelor in 1999 and a 2003 recipient of the Guy Hanks Marvin Miller (Bill Cosby) screenwriting fellowship.
Yale University has honored OKelly twice for his work, which has appeared in The New York Times, on CNN, MSNBCs Hardball with Chris Matthews, Good Morning America, The Jim Rome Show, American Top 40 with Ryan Seacrest and dozens of other national outlets.Also, O'Kelly is a weekly political commentator for the BBC Radio Network regarding the American political system. If that werent enough, he pens the syndicated column, "The MoKelly Report" which runs on The Huffington Post and other print and online destinations worldwide.On a personal level, word on the street is that he sings in the shower and at various Karaoke bars. In all 3 minutes of his free time, he practices and instructs the Korean martial art of Hapkido, where he is a 4th degree black belt.