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STRIDE
2014
Ms Murphy returned to the studio in mid-2014 to begin work on ‘Stride’, partnering with ARIA award-winning producer Jan Skubizsewski (CatEmpire, Phrase, ILLY).
“These new tracks are hopeful and speak of overcoming times in my life when I have been tried and tested,” Ms Murphy explains. “The lyrics revolve around loss, which I’ve learnt leads us to find out how strong we actually are. Life experiences that are isolating are the very thing that connects us all.
With the imminent release of ‘Stride’, audiences are set to experience more from the dynamic performer on tour throughout late 2014. Dates include Australia’s first ever SoulFest, alongside Grammy award-winning neo-soul, jazz and hip-hop icons Maxwell, D’Angelo and Common. The Love Tribe, as Ms Murphy’s fans are affectionately known, is set to expand, as she delivers her world-class soulful style alongside her contemporaries, making her mark and taking it all in her stride, as only she can
White Dress and the Spirit
2013
It takes a special set of circumstances to create a knockout soul singer. It requires near impossible circumstances to uncover one. Ms Murphy – the fiery and heartbreaking stage persona of Karen Andrews – knows firsthand what those circumstances entail. From her childhood kicking around a housing commission outside Sydney to the flashbulbs of primetime on The Voice, it’s been a long and arduous road to her introduction to the nation. It’s clear in the celebratory brass tones of Ms Murphy’s debut single, ‘Ritual Union,’ and in the song’s first vocal notes, deep as a river yet calling to the heavens