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Samantha Murphy Samantha Murphy – “A motivational speaker with a guitar.” -Chris Kocher, pressconnects.com Google singer songwriter and the first name you’ll find is Samantha Murphy. For the past three years, Samantha has been establishing herself as not only a singer songwriter, but the place to go to hear other great singer songwriters. With her popular Podcast SMtv, Samantha features a different artist from a different city and venue each week as she tours. Over 170,000 people have downloaded her program. Expanding on the success of SMtv, Samantha has built SMtvMusic.com, a royalty-free music network and legal P2P for college students. SMtvMusic.com has recently partnered with the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System to deliver royalty free music to their network of 1,000 college stations and Samantha offers the entire catalog to college DJ’s and non-commercial webcasters royalty-free. Samantha is in demand as a speaker and has moderated and been a panel member at many music conferences such as Digital Music Forum West, the Future of Music Coalition Summit, Podcast Hotel, the DIY Convention and MEISA’s International Conference. Samantha’s independently released debut CD, somewhere between starving & stardom, contains an all star band consisting of the rhythm section from Alanis Morissette’s multi-platinum debut Jagged Little Pill, Kanye West’s Cellist and award winning mix engineer Richard Oliver Furch (Christina Aguilera/Usher/Pink). The album was chosen as a top 10 for Village Voice’s Annual Pazz & Jop Poll by Michael Ross, who calls it “…a perfect pop record.” 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. Samantha is blazing a trail as an independent artist and innovator and is living proof of what’s possible for artists in the digital age. www.smtvmusic.com |
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