Anna Murphy (musician)
{{Short description|Swiss musician and audio engineer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Anna Murphy
| image = Cellar Darling Summer Breeze Open Air 2017 09.jpg
| caption = Murphy at Summer Breeze Open Air on {{Nowrap|18 August 2017}}
| birth_name = Anna Maria Murphy
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1989|08|10}}
| birth_place = Lucerne, Switzerland
| genre = {{flatlist|
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| occupation = {{flatlist|
- Musician
- singer
- songwriter
- audio engineer
}}
| instrument = {{flatlist|
- Hurdy-gurdy
- vocals
- flute
- keyboards
- bass
}}
| years_active = 2005–present
| label = Nuclear Blast
| current_member_of = {{flatlist|
- Cellar Darling
- Fräkmündt
- Maer
}}
| past_member_of = {{flatlist|
}}
| website = [https://annamurphy.ch/ https://annamurphy.ch]
}}
Anna Maria Murphy (born 10 August 1989)Simone Bösch: Geheimnisvolle Beschwörungen. In: Metal Hammer, Ausgabe Mai 2009, Axel Springer Mediahouse München GmbH, München 2009, pp. 48–50. is a Swiss musician, singer, songwriter and audio engineer. She is best known as the female lead vocalist of Swiss folk metal band Eluveitie from 2006 until 2016, in which she also played hurdy-gurdy and flute. Since her departure from Eluveitie, she has been the lead vocalist of Swiss progressive metal band Cellar Darling.
Early life
Anna Murphy was born 10 August 1989 in Lucerne, Switzerland. Her father, Andrew Murphy, is a Dublin-born Irishman and her mother, Christiane Boesiger, is a native Swiss.u.A. Anna Murphy: [http://forum.eluveitie.ch/viewtopic.php?t=346&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15 Woher kommen eigentlich...], forum.eluveitie.ch, Retrieved 2 April 2012. {{in lang |de}}. Because both of her parents work in Switzerland as professional opera singers,[https://web.archive.org/web/20131112192958/http://www.xplosivemetal.com/interviews/219-eluveitie-interview-2 Eluveitie Interview with Anna], xplosivemetal.com, Retrieved 2 April 2012. she came in contact with music in her early childhood years.
Music career
In 2006, at the age of 16, she became the hurdy-gurdy player of the Swiss folk metal band Eluveitie. It provided a certain Celtic feel to the band.
In early 2010, Murphy formed, together with fellow Eluveitie member Meri Tadic, the ambient project godnr.universe!.[http://www.myspace.com/godnr.universe godnr.universe!], Myspace, retrieved 2 April 2012. By the end of the year, she also joined the folk group Fräkmündt (named after the ancient name of Mount Pilatus),[http://www.78s.ch/2011/10/10/frakmundt-entstaubt-den-hudigaggeler/ Fräkmündt entstaubt den Hudigäggeler], 78s.ch, retrieved 2 April 2012. which was one of the national contestants of the Eurovision Song Contest in 2011.[http://www.drs3.ch/www/de/drs3/217180.fraekmuendt-d-draachejongfer.html Fräkmündt: «D'Draachejongfer»], drs3.ch, retrieved 2 April 2012. In the end, their song D'Draachejongfer could not beat In Love for a While (a song by Anna Rossinelli). Since the spring of 2011, Murphy worked as an audio engineer at the Obernauer Soundfarm Studios in Lucerne. In that same year, she also became a permanent member of the band Nucleus Torn.[http://www.schwermetall.ch/blog/blogs/2011/10/27/anna_murphy_eluveitie_wird_mitglied_bei_ Anna Murphy (Eluveitie) wird Mitglied bei Nucleus Torn] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111030115241/http://www.schwermetall.ch/blog/blogs/2011/10/27/anna_murphy_eluveitie_wird_mitglied_bei_ |date=30 October 2011 }}, schwermetall.ch, retrieved 2 April 2012.
File:Cellar Darling Rockharz 2018 18.jpg at Rockharz festival 2018.]]
She left Eluveitie on 5 May 2016, following Ivo Henzi and Merlin Sutter and starting a new band with them.{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/eluveitie/posts/10153847754891284:0|title=Eluveitie|website=www.facebook.com|language=en|access-date=2017-12-08}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/annamurphyofficial/posts/10156785351570447|title=Anna Murphy|website=www.facebook.com|language=en|access-date=2017-12-08}} This band is called Cellar Darling after her solo album.{{cite web | url-access=limited |archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/1026760957390302/1080045118728552 |archive-date = 2022-04-27| url = https://www.facebook.com/cellardarlingofficial/photos/a.1080047302061667.1073741829.1026760957390302/1080045118728552/?type=3 |title = Cellar Darling on Facebook |website=Facebook}}{{cbignore}}{{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=March 2022}}
In August 2022, Maer, a side project formed by Murphy and Marjana Semkina of Iamthemorning was announced.
Discography
= With Eluveitie =
{{Main|Eluveitie discography}}
== Studio albums ==
- Slania (2008)
- Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion (2009)
- Everything Remains (As It Never Was) (2010)
- Helvetios (2012)
- Origins (2014)
= With godnr.universe! =
- godnr.universe! (2010)
= With Fräkmündt =
- Uufwärts e d'Föuse, bärgwärts e d'Rueh (2010)
- Heiwehland (2011)
- Landlieder & Frömdländler (2014)
= With Nucleus Torn =
- Golden Age (2011)
- Street Lights Fail (2014)
= With Lethe =
- When Dreams Become Nightmares (2014)
- The First Corpse on the Moon (2017)
= With Cellar Darling =
- This Is the Sound (2017)
- The Spell (2019)
= With Maer =
- Sister (2022)
= Solo work =
== Studio albums ==
- Cellar Darling (2013)
= Guest appearances =
- Holy Grail – Crisis in Utopia (2010)
- Swashbuckle – Crime Always Pays (2010)
- Varg – Wolfskult (2011)
- Status Minor – Ouroboros (2011)
- Blutmond – Revolution Is Dead (2012)
- Haïrdrÿer – Off to Haïradise (2014)
- Varg – Rotkäppchen (2015)
- Back to Life – A Tribute to Goodbye to Gravity (2016)
- Evenmore – Last Ride (2016)
- Varg – Das Ende aller Lügen (2016)
- Folkestone – Ossidiana (2017)
- Leah – Ancient Winter (2018)
- Appearance of Nothing – In Times of Darkness (2019)
- Wear Your Sins – Orpheus Omega (2019)
- Paydretz – Chroniques de l'insurrection (2021)
- Valhalore - Beyond the Stars (2025)
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Anna Murphy (musician)}}
- {{Official website|http://annamurphy.ch/}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20141228192202/http://eluveitie.ch/?bands=anna-murphy Anna Murphy] on the official website of Eluveitie
- {{IMDb name|5635370}}
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Category:21st-century Swiss women singers
Category:Women heavy metal singers
Category:Musicians from Lucerne