- Born
- Birth nameJames Jeremiah Murphy
- Height1.83 m
- James Murphy is an American musician, DJ, singer, songwriter, and record producer. His most well-known musical project is LCD Soundsystem, which first gained attention with its single "Losing My Edge" in 2002 before releasing its eponymous debut album in February 2005 and top 20 success in the UK. LCD Soundsystem's second and third studio albums, Sound of Silver (2007) and This Is Happening (2010) respectively, were met with universal acclaim from several music review outlets. Both albums have also reached the top 50 in the Billboard 200.
LCD Soundsystem has been recognized as a major force in recent music and on March 5, 2013 was named one of Rolling Stone's New Immortals - "active artists who they think will stand the test of time." In 2011, it was announced that LCD Soundsystem would disband with a final show on April 11, 2011 at Madison Square Garden. In the following years, Murphy continued to pursue other artistic projects: some music related, others not.
James Murphy recorded a song with Gorillaz and Outkast's André 3000, called "DoYaThing", for their Converse collection. It was released on February 23, 2012. He produced a song with Pulp called "After You". It was released as a present on Christmas Day 2012 to fans. Murphy also appeared in The Comedy (2012) with Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim.
James Murphy was listed as a producer for Yeah Yeah Yeahs' 2013 album, Mosquito. He also wrote the musical scores for the Noah Baumbach films Greenberg (2010) and While We're Young (2014).- IMDb mini biography by: Tango Papa
- Attended and graduated from NJ's West Windsor-Plainsboro HS, class of 1988. Classmate of Ethan Hawke.
- He was thirty-five years old when he made his first album.
- In 2003, Murphy worked with pop singer Britney Spears on her album In the Zone, but the collaboration was unsuccessful.
- Murphy participated in Canon's Project Imaginat10n, which called for 5 celebrities to direct short films based on pictures uploaded by people around the world to the Project Imaginat10n site. The result was "Little Duck", Murphy's first directorial effort. Ron Howard advised Murphy in his directing. Shooting took place in Japan, the setting of the film.
- In collaboration with coffee company Blue Bottle, Murphy created his signature coffee called House of Good. It is described as a "syrupy, well-balanced and thoroughly accessible" espresso. It was developed with help of Blue Bottle founder James Freeman.
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