Julie Murphy is a singer who sings in Welsh

Welsh language

Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa...

 and English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

. She sings in the Welsh band Fernhill

Fernhill (band)

Fernhill is a Welsh folk band, formed in 1996. They have been described by music critic and journalist Colin Irwin, as "highly regarded, innovative cultural ambassadors for Wales and its folk music, having toured in over 20 countries in four continents"...

, as well as performing and recording as a solo artist.She has also collaborated musically with John Cale

John Cale

John Davies Cale, OBE is a Welsh musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground....

 (performing with him in the film Beautiful Mistake), and Afro Celt Sound System

Afro Celt Sound System

The Afro Celt Sound System is a musical group which fuses modern electronic dance rhythms with traditional Irish and West African music...

 (in a duet with Robert Plant

Robert Plant

Robert Anthony Plant, CBE is an English singer and songwriter best known as the vocalist and lyricist of the iconic rock band Led Zeppelin. He has also had a successful solo career...

 of Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin were an English rock band, active in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Formed in 1968, they consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham...

).

Biography

Murphy was born in Highgate

Highgate

Highgate is an area of North London on the north-eastern corner of Hampstead Heath.Highgate is one of the most expensive London suburbs in which to live. It has an active conservation body, the Highgate Society, to protect its character....

, London

London

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, but spent her formative years in Romford

Romford

Romford is a large suburban town in north east London, England and the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Havering. It is located northeast of Charing Cross and is one of the major metropolitan centres identified in the London Plan...

, Essex

Essex

Essex is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England, and one of the home counties. It is located to the northeast of Greater London. It borders with Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent to the South and London to the south west...

. Her family were originally from Blackpool

Blackpool

Blackpool is a borough, seaside town, and unitary authority area of Lancashire, in North West England. It is situated along England's west coast by the Irish Sea, between the Ribble and Wyre estuaries, northwest of Preston, north of Liverpool, and northwest of Manchester...

, Lancashire

Lancashire

Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...

. She attended Maidstone College of Art and subsequently move to Wales

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

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Discography

Solo albums

• "Black Mountains Revisited" (1999)
• "Lilac Tree" (2002)

Fernhill albums

• Ca’ nôs (Beautiful Jo Records, 1996)
• Llatai (Beautiful Jo Records, 1998)
• Whilia (Beautiful Jo Records, 2000)
• hynt (Beautiful Jo Records, 2003)
• Na Prádle (live) (Beautiful Jo Records, 2007)
• Canu Rhydd
  Canu Rhydd
  -Track listing:#"adar"#"when i was in my prime"#"diddan"#"forest"#"glyn cynon"#"glyn tawe"#"y fwynlan o serch"-Musicians:*Julie Murphy - voice, sruti*Ceri Rhys Matthews - guitar, flute, voice*Tomos Williams - trumpet, flugelhorn...
  
  (disgyfrith, 2011)

Collaborative Albums

• "Ffawd" (2000), with Dylan Fowler.
• "English Songs of Love" (2001), with Lynne Denman and Joanne Acty.

Whirling Pope Joan (Julie Murphy and Nigel Eaton)

• "Spin" (1994)

External links

• http://www.fernhill.info Fernhill official website
• http://www.juliemurphymusic.com Julie Murphy official website