Shaun Morgan

Shaun Morgan (Afrikaans: [ˈvæl.χəˌmut], born 21 December 1978) is a South African musician. He is the lead singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitarist for the rock band Seether. Quotes I grew up on a pig farm. My dad bought a farm when I was about five or six years old. My brother and I moved from my mother’s house and in with him. I actually lived on a pig farm till I was eighteen and it was like a twenty mile drive every day to get to school. He would drive one way to drop us off and drive another hour and a half yet to go to work every day and then turn around and come back and pick us up. But it was basically running around doing kid stuff on a farm, like climbing trees and riding bicycles and stuff, a really standard farm upbringing. As time went by things got more dangerous so we moved into the city cause farmers were getting chopped up and stuff on their farms. So we had to move into a safer environment. Yeah, we moved to a farm and everything was open. Then having been there for four or five years there were bars on all the windows, there were security gates, we had to put in electrical fencing. It just became farmers were an easy target. You’re so outlying and so far away from your neighbors that they would just come on your property and attack farmers. Mostly it was the older farmers. But yeah, a lot of my family farmed all over the country so you hear stories from all over the place of farmers being attacked, just hacked to pieces. In Zimbabwe was the worst, just walking on and claiming the land and then just killing the farmers; but here, they were just taking what they could find and running away. It was an African country and it’s run by one of the more corrupt governments of all time, I would say. It promises it’s people a lot of things it doesn’t deliver on, so people are poor and they have to find other ways to make ends meet and unfortunately violence to a lot of people is not a big deal. We lived in a city called Pietermaritzburg and that was basically the last few years of high school and I left and moved to Johannesburg. I started studying and went to college, studying for a bachelor of technology. I was planning to become a jeweler. Basically spent two and a half years on a three year degree and then I bailed at the end to be in the band full time. Thankfully, that worked out (laughs). Otherwise I’d be a jeweler somewhere in South Africa, working for some guy that pays you minimum wage. External links Category:Singers from South Africa Category:Musicians from South Africa Category:1978 births Category:Living people Category:Guitarists