Biography

Please check my website for my full bio: https://shaunmurphyband.com/bio/ I was fortunate in 2013 to be the Bluesblast Music Awards, Best Female Blues Artist Of The Year, and also win Best Contemporary Blues Album Of The Year for my release of Ask For The Moon, as well as three Grammy nominations. My CD, It Won’t Stop Raining, brought me a nomination for the Koko Taylor Award from the Blues Foundation. With Mighty Gates, I created a cross-genre CD of which I wrote 7 of the tunes, and included a couple from my favorite artists. Dobie Gray had sent me ‘Mighty Gates’ a little over 5 years ago, and I thought it a perfect fit for the times! When we were putting together my 9th CD; Reason To Try, I came across the title track through a friend of mine, and immediately grabbed it for this CD. Along with several tunes from other friends, and my amazing band again in the studio, turning out to be one of my favorite CDs!! My 10th CD, Flame Still Burns is a collection of some of my favorite covers, I’d been asked over the years to record a complete CD of covers, and this seemed the right time and place for it! Also, I am honored to be a nominee for a BMA award (Contemporary Blues Female Artist) and have been asked to stream a video for the virtual BMA Awards Show to be aired June 6, 2021!