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James Murray

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The best kept secret in music

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Discography

'Give Me Time'
'No Place To Hide'
'Speak My Mind'
All produced by Stephen Lironi as yet unreleased. See myspace www.myspace.com/jamesmurraymusic for possible downlaod avilability.

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CHRISTMAS DAY SAW JAMES REACH THE DIZZY HEIGHTS OF 18 YEARS OLD!!.

FEB 06. AS A 17 YEAR OLD, JAMES’S MYSPACE PAGE MUSHROOMED FROM NOTHING TO A 1000+ PLAYS A DAY PUTTING HIM TOP 3, HIGHEST IN THE UK, IN THE ALL MYSPACE ACOUSTIC UNSIGNED CHARTS ON MANY OCCASIONS. AS MENTIONED ON RADIO ONE ‘NEWSBEAT’ LAST SUMMER.

LIVING AT HOME IN LYMINGTON, WHILE STILL AT SCHOOL, WITH HOME STUDIO RECORDINGS, JAMES GOT MANAGEMENT INTEREST AND WAS INTRODUCED TO STEPHEN LIRONI, A TOP PRODUCER WHO HAS PRODUCED THE LIKES OF JON BON JOVI, BLACK GRAPE, HANSON AND BABY BIRD. STEPHEN LOVED HIS VOICE AND SUDDENLY JAMES WAS IN A TOP LONDON STUDIO, STRONGROOM STUDIOS, RECORDING HIS FIRST FULLY PRODUCED TRACK ‘GIVE ME TIME’

SEPT 06.THE RESULT WAS GOOD ENOUGH TO GET HIM MEETINGS AT THREE MAJOR RECORD COMPANIES. ENCOURAGED AND UNNERVED BY PLAYING ACOUSTICALLY IN THE INTIMATE ENVIRONMENT OF THE A+R BOSS’S OFFICES, HE HAS FORGED AHEAD AND HAS JUST FINISHED ANOTHER TWO POTENTIAL HITS WITH STEPHEN, WHICH WILL BE ON MYSPACE IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE.

JAMES WRITES ALL HIS OWN SONGS BUT NOT BEING PRECIOUS JAMES IS ALWAYS SEARCHING TO IMPROVE HIS SONGWRITING WHICH HAS ALREADY TAKEN HIM TO NASHVILLE, BY WAY OF NEW YORK, TO WORK WITH DENNIS MATCOSKEY ( WRITER FOR LEANNE RIMES AND KIETH URBAN TO NAME BUT A FEW.) JAMES WANTS HIT RECORDS!!!

ON THE LIVE FRONT JAMES WILL PLAY ANYWHERE HE CAN GET AN AUDIENCE, FROM THE BEACH IN BOURNEMOUHTH TO COFFEE SHOPS IN LYMINGTON, TO THE CLUB SCENE IN LONDON AND THE LARMER TREE FESTIVAL. JAMES TRIES TO FIT AS MANY LIVE DATES AS HIS SCHOOLING WILL ALLOW.

THIS KID IS INCHES AWAY FROM A MAJOR RECORD DEAL IN 2007. HIS TALENT WILL ENSURE THIS.

It’s like this all happened by accident, i just started writing songs after a relationship turned sour, but songwriting then became everything to me, and i just kept on writing and listening to more and more music, trying to develop my voice and my sound. I started to take inspiration from american singer songwriters like James Taylor and Joni Mitchell, and became almost obsessed with trying to write the catchiest pop songs i could think of.
As more and more began to happen, with myspace success and producing with Steve, i started to almost live a double life, one minute i’m a normal kid in school doing my a-levels, the next minute i’m playing to major record label bosses and recording the music that i love. I just want to get on the road and play my music to people now, because that’s what’s really important to me, seeing people’s reactions close up in a sweaty little venue in a town i’ve never heard of with whoever turns up.
It’s mad when i think where music has already taken me, i ended up in Nashville writing with grammy award winning songwriter Dennis Matcosky, when i should have been on a school trip to New York. I was walking along Bournemouth beach one night and ended up being encircled by 50 spanish students demanding that i sing them songs. The chorus of ‘speak my mind’ finally came to me when a crazy man got on the number 29 bus on my way to Camden. This all happened becuase of one ugly break-up, but has become the only thing i want to do. I love hearing songs that are so simple that you wish you had written them, that’s the beauty of songwriting. That’s the type of songs i hope i’m writing.