Róisín Murphy

Róisín Marie Murphy (born 5 July 1973 in Arklow, County Wicklow, Ireland) is an Irish musician. She is best known as a singer of the duo Moloko. Your first name means " herb ".

• 2.1 albums
• 2.2 Live albums
• 2.3 Singles
• 2.4 EPs

Music career

Moloko

Murphy initially had no professional singing experience, but then learned at a party Mark Brydon, with whom she founded the band Moloko. During their first conversation the sentence was " Do you like my tight sweater? ", Then the title of the first published in 1995 Moloko album was. In addition to her work Murphy and Brydon also had a private relationship that ended before the appearance of the last Moloko Statues album in 2002.

Parallel to the work at Moloko sang Róisín Murphy for other artists, as for Boris Dlugosch, Handsome Boy Modeling School and Psychedelic Waltons. In 2004, she had also been Band Aid 20.

2004: First solo album Ruby Blue

After four studio albums with Moloko Murphy took over in 2004, her first solo material with producer Matthew Herbert on, who had previously created remixes for Moloko. The first recordings were released in advance in a limited edition exclusively on vinyl EPs with titles Sequins 1, Sequins Sequins 2 and 3 Their debut album, Ruby Blue was released in 2005 under the label Rough Trade Records. It produced a single, If We're In Love.

2006: Overpowered

In 2006, they moved from their old record company to the EMI label. Under this label, was released on 12 October 2007, her second solo album Overpowered. But they worked with, among others, Paul Dolby, Andy Cato of Groove Armada and Jimmy Douglass. The album was mainly in Belgium, where it reached platinum status in 2009, very successful. For a commercial company Gucci she sang a cover of Bryan Ferry Slave To Love songs.

Since 2009

The end of 2009 brought out the Murphy Orally Fixated single, but made ​​it due to lack of promotion only in the UK indie charts. Together with Marius de Vries they produced the song Yellow Moon for the album The Revolution. In addition, she worked with the group Crookers together, resulting in two songs emerged: Royal T and Hold Up Your Hands. Both were released on the album Tons Of Friends.

In 2009, she released her first child into the world.

Published in early 2010 Róisín Murphy her most recent single Momma 's Place, which was published just a month before publication on the Internet. Currently there are no plans for a third album.

In the fall of 2012 Murphy published again a single publication entitled simulation.

Discography

Albums

Live albums

• 2008: iTunes Live: London Sessions (Download)

Singles

EPs

• 2004: Sequins 1
• 2004: Sequins 2
• 2004: Sequins 3