Graham Murphy is a record producer, musician and songwriter. He was born in Dublin, Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

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Biography

Graham started out as a session musician/programmer working with leading Irish acts including Aslan and Whipping Boy. Around the same time he began writing with artist Perry Blake

Perry Blake

Perry Blake is an Irish singer and songwriter from Sligo, known for the delicate, downtempo, melancholic style of his songs and his soft singing voice....

 . Perry signed to Polydor Records

Polydor Records

Polydor is a record label owned by Universal Music Group, headquartered in the United Kingdom.-Beginnings:Polydor was originally an independent branch of the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft. Its name was first used as an export label in 1924, the British and German branches of the Gramophone...

 and Graham was signed by Trevor Horn

Trevor Horn

Trevor Charles Horn CBE is an English pop music record producer, songwriter, musician and singer. He was born in Houghton-le-Spring in north-east England....

 to his publishing label Perfect Songs

Perfect Songs

Perfect Songs is an independent music publishing company with a catalogue containing many memorable songs of the past 25 years.It is part of the SPZ Group of companies which also includes Sarm Studios , ZTT Records, Stiff Records and Music Bank hire .Songs featured in their catalogue include Relax...

. He moved to London to complete Perry's debut album handling most musical duties, string arrangements and programming. On this project he worked with respected UK producer Ross Cullum and arranged with Caroline Dale

Caroline Dale

Caroline Dale is a widely-recorded British cellist who has performed music for numerous films, including Truly, Madly, Deeply, Hilary and Jackie, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, as well as the 2005 adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and 2007's Academy Award winner Atonement...

 for the London Metropolitan Orchestra

London Metropolitan Orchestra

London Metropolitan Orchestra , founded in 1994, is a London-based studio orchestra whose primary function is to record music for film, television, and other multimedia projects...

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Upon returning to Dublin he set up The Production Suite

The Production Suite

The Production Suite is a recording studio located in Dublin, Ireland run by record producers / songwriters Chris O'Brien and Graham Murphy. The team have worked with artists as diverse as The Human League, Clannad, The Waterboys, Lucie Silvas, Perry Blake, The Blue Nile, Luan Parle, Aslan, Gemma...

 with fellow producer and writer Chris O'Brien

Chris O'Brien

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 where they scored their first UK Top 40 hit with "Dont Dream" by Irish act Dove who were subsequently signed to ZTT Records

ZTT Records

ZTT Records is a record label founded in 1983 by NME journalist Paul Morley, record producer Trevor Horn, and businesswoman Jill Sinclair. The label's name was also printed as "Zang Tumb Tuum" and "Zang Tuum Tumb" on various releases....

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Graham went on to work with artists such as Clannad, The Blue Nile

The Blue Nile

The Blue Nile is an adult alternative/pop band from Glasgow. The music of The Blue Nile is built heavily on synthesizers and electronic instrumentation and percussion, although later works featured acoustic guitar more prominently.-Early years:...

, The Human League

The Human League

The Human League are an English electronic New Wave band formed in Sheffield in 1977. They achieved popularity after a key change in line-up in the early 1980s and have continued recording and performing with moderate commercial success throughout the 1980s up to the present day.The only constant...

, Gemma Hayes

Gemma Hayes

Gemma Claire Hayes is an Irish singer-songwriter and member of The Cake Sale.-Early life:...

 and in 2002 scored an international hit and UK Top 5 as co-writer of the song Bop Bop Baby

Bop Bop Baby

"Bop Bop Baby" is the third single to be released from Westlife's third studio album, 'World Of Our Own'. The single peaked at #5 on the UK Singles Chart. However, during an interview, the band claimed this was due to the obscure choice of single, as they would have much preferred to release 'Why...

 for multi platinum selling act Westlife

Westlife

Westlife are an Irish boy band established on 3 July 1998. They are to disband in 2012. The group's line-up was Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily, Shane Filan, and Brian McFadden . The group are the only act in British and Irish history to have their first seven singles peak at number one...

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He was later signed to Warner/Chappell Music

Warner/Chappell Music

Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. is an American music publishing company, and a division of the Warner Music Group. The company traces its origins back to 1811 and the founding of Chappell & Company, a music publishing company and instrument shop on London’s Bond Street that, in 1929, began a rapid...

 publishing and worked with artists as diverse as Lucie Silvas

Lucie Silvas

Lucie Silvas is a British singer-songwriter.- Early life :...

, Luan Parle

Luan Parle

Luán Maureen Parle is an Irish Singer/Songwriter / Producer.-Early life:First Impressions was Luán Parle’s début album release after signing to Recording Studios atthe age of 12 following an appearance on The Late Late Toy Show....

, Samantha Mumba

Samantha Mumba

Samantha Tamania Anne Cecilia Mumba is an Irish singer and actress.Her first album was released in 2000. Her most notable role was Mara in the 2002 film The Time Machine. She has also appeared in a number of Irish independent films.-Early life, education and early career:Mumba was born in Dublin,...

 and multi-platinum selling Japanese group W-inds.

Recently he has been working with artists such as Paul Harrington, Lucia Evans

Lucia Evans

Lucia Evans , is an Irish singer and winner of the 2006 season of the talent show You're A Star.Evans is now living in Galway in Ireland working as a full time vocal coach, although originally from Bulawayo in Zimbabwe...

, Brian Canavan

Brian Canavan

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 and emerging female artist Aoife Moriarty and has just had a song "Still Lives" featured in the new Monica Bellucci

Monica Bellucci

Monica Anna Maria Bellucci is an Italian actress and fashion model.-Early life:Bellucci was born in Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy as the only child of Luigi Bellucci, who was born in the British protectorate of Zanzibar, East Pakistan...

film L' Uomo Che Ama.

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