Abigail Morris (musician)

Abigail Mary Eliza Kemp Morris is an English musician who is the lead singer for the indie rock band The Last Dinner Party.

Early life

Abigail Mary Eliza Kemp Morris was born on 19 October 1999 in London, England. Morris grew up in London and attended boarding school at Bedales School in Hampshire. She then went on to study English at King's College London in 2019.
Morris has been writing music from the age of thirteen.

Career

In 2018, Morris began releasing music on SoundCloud under the name "Amorina". Her streams also included an early demo of the future Prelude to Ecstasy track titled "Mirror".
In 2019, during Freshers' Week at King's College London, Morris met fellow students Lizzie Mayland and Georgia Davies. Together, they decided to start a band. Subsequently, after being introduced to Emily Roberts and Aurora Nishevci, this led to the formation of indie rock band, The Last Dinner Party. After a series of pub performances, the band performed their first gig at the George Tavern in London in November 2021, with Morris as the lead vocalist. Morris has cited Florence + the Machine, David Bowie, Queen, as some of their inspirations.
In addition to being a songwriter and lead vocalist for The Last Dinner Party, Morris' other credits include providing backing vocals for the British art punk band, HMLTD's second album, The Worm. She features on BC Camplight's 2025 single "Two Legged Dog" from his seventh album, A Sober Conversation.

Musical style and influences

Morris told Vogue: "The visual world we create is so important to our music because the music will evolve constantly over time". In the same piece she cited inspirations ranging "from David Bowie, Grace Jones, Weyes Blood, Paramore's Hayley Williams and Peter Doherty" to film and fashion icons. Reviewing the band's debut album, Pitchfork wrote: "Prelude to Ecstasy spills over with baroque flourishes, ribboning woodwinds, and a theatrical sense of melodrama". A separate concert review by The Harvard Crimson praised Morris's stage presence, noting that "Morris's charismatic stage presence was engrossing as she danced around the stage before moving on to 'Caesar on a TV Screen'".