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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Julie Murphy
Person · female · United Kingdom · London · born 1960
British singer
Timeline
1 events◦ Birth 1
1960s
Biography
English biography166 words · 5 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1371031264
Biography
Julie Murphy (born 1961) is an English singer. She sings in the Welsh folk group Fernhill, as well as performing and recording as a solo artist. She has also collaborated musically with John Cale (performing together in the film Beautiful Mistake), and Afro Celt Sound System (in a duet with Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin).
Biography
Murphy was born in Highgate, London, but spent her formative years in Romford. Her family was originally from Blackpool, Lancashire. She attended Maidstone College of Art and subsequently moved to Wales. She sings both in English and Welsh.
Solo albums and EPs
Black Mountains Revisited (1999)
Lilac Tree (2002)
The Fall – EP (2011)
A Quiet House (2012)
Mermaid – EP (2014)
Every Bird That Flies (2016)
Fernhill albums
Ca' nôs (Beautiful Jo Records, 1996)
Llatai (Beautiful Jo Records, 1998)
Whilia (Beautiful Jo Records, 2000)
hynt (Beautiful Jo Records, 2003)
Na Prádle (live) (Beautiful Jo Records, 2007)
Canu Rhydd (disgyfrith, 2011)
Collaborative albums
Ffawd (2000), with Dylan Fowler
English Songs of Love (2001), with Lynne Denman and Joanne Acty
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
No discography rows stored yet
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Julie Murphy head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Julie_Murphy_%28singer%29_%28cropped%29.jpgcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6308411seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Murphy_%28singer%29biography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Murphy_%28singer%29
Why this artist is in the database
- List of folk musicians
- List of Welsh musicians
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Diddongdang · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q6308411 · MusicBrainz: 7ce0a3f1-b43a-4282-80ce-af7ac7184d2e
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