An Interview with Jeanna Murphy
Singer/songwriter and musician Jeanna Murphy often mentions how music was a part of her life since childhood even though she had little training until she reached college and changed her major to music. She stored music she heard from Disney films away in her mind to be able to deconstruct them and use what she learned later in her work. You can hear these early influences on her debut album Magic which she is self-publishing. In this interview, I ask about her start in music, her current album, and how her training affects her enjoyment of music.
On your website bio you tell about how you got into music as a child, but had no training in it. You talk about listening to Disney records, mentally recording the sounds you heard only to use them later when you changed your major to music in 2000. My question is, what was your major before and what was the inspiration behind switching to music?
In high school I was really into drama and choir. I got into assistant directing and all that backstage stuff for a ton of our drama productions. So, because I had no other ideas, I became a TV Production Technology major when I entered college in the fall of ‘99. I thought it was going to be a bunch of directing and stage blocking…it was not. It was a whole lot of info on cables and wires and lighting…it was very technical and not at all what I was interested in. Read the rest of this entry →