Samantha Murphy

Categories: Music | Singer-Songwriter | Indie
    • Birth place: Hawaii
    • Genre(s): Singer-Songwriter

  • About Samantha Murphy

    Born in Hawaii to Australian parents, Samantha practically grew up in the music industry, singing in her family’s band, The Murphys.

    The family was on the road, touring the US from the time Samantha could walk, and opening for such artists as Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson.

  • Career

    On her popular show, The Highway Girl http://www.thehighwaygirl.com, Samantha features a different artist from a different city and venue each week as she tours. Past guests include Elvis Perkins, Cary Brothers, Eisley, Teitur, Matthew Ryan, Inara George, Jesse Malin, Harvey Danger and Abra Moore. Over a million people have downloaded her program.

    Samantha is in demand as a speaker and has moderated and been a panel member at many conferences such as the Consumer Electronics Show, Digital Music Forum West, Future of Music Coalition Summit, Digital Hollywood, College Broadcaster’s Inc. and MEISA’s National Conference.

    She has taken part in symposiums on behalf of Princeton University and has been quoted in major press publications such as Conde Nast’s Portfolio.com and NPR.

    Samantha’s independently released debut CD, somewhere between starving & stardom, was chosen as a top 10 for Village Voice’s Annual Pazz Poll by Michael Ross, who calls it “…a perfect pop record.” The album contains an all star band consisting of the rhythm section from Alanis Morissette’s multi-platinum debut Jagged Little Pill and Kanye West’s Cellist.

    Performing professionally since she was six years old, Samantha has worked with Willie Nelson, Michael McDonald, Five for Fighting, Kylie Minogue and Erikah Badu as well as having appeared on TV shows ranging from The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to Australia’s Hey, Hey It’s Saturday.

    Her latest endeavor is The Highway Girl, an Internet TV show covering the convergence of music and technology. The show launched with Singer Songwriter Aimee Mann and WordPress Founder Matt Mullenweg August 12th.

    Samantha’s new single “Days Like This”, Produced by Martin Terefe (KT Tunstall/James Morrison) is pre-loaded into RCA’s entire new line of MP3 players and will be shipped to Wal-Marts across the USA and Canada, as well as being available for DRM-free MP3 download from her site.

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      @rachelalkobey girl you don't understand how TERRIFIED I am of the highway!! I would probably kill myself before I got out of MD hahaha
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      Hey @photomatt The Highway Girl's finally rebuilding in Wordpress!
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      RT @SamanthaMurphy: We're on the Kindle! RT @kindle_blog The Highway Girl - by Samantha Murphy - Kindle Edition. http://tinyurl.com/ykc6xvs
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      What is that on the back of your head girl? Did you pick that up on the highway on your way to work because that looks like roadkill to me!
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      We're on the Kindle! RT @kindle_blog The Highway Girl - by Samantha Murphy - Kindle Edition. http://tinyurl.com/ykc6xvs
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