Luci Murphy

Female

Banneker City, DC

United States

Profile Information:

What instrument do you play?

vocal chords

Who influenced you to listen to jazz

Radio programmer and cousin, Yale Lewis and Civil Rights attorney Landon "Jack" Dowdey

How did you find out about the WDCJN?

washingtondcjazznetwork.ning.com

My Website

http://http://www.collectivecry.com/platform.cfm?mode=profile&a...

Where are you located?

Washington, DC

Tell us about yourself

Luci Murphy is a native of D.C. where she is a vocalist who often leads group singing, but “sun-lights” as a medical interpreter of Spanish and English. She has a long history of community activism, especially working with children at risk. She has visited Lebanon to observe Palestinian Refugee Camps, China just before the normalization of relations with the U.S., Brazil for a grass-roots organizing conference, and Cuba to oppose U.S. travel restrictions.

A past president of the D.C. League of Women Voters, she has also served on the Steering Committees of the People’s Music Network, "Health Care Now!,” and Washington Inner-city Self Help. Currently she is convener of the Gray Panthers of Metro D.C., an associate producer of Sophie’s Parlor Women’s Radio Collective at WPFW 89.3 FM, the Pacifica Station in D.C. and contact person for the Community Coalition for Peace and Justice.

Luci has been performing since her childhood in the 1950s. To reach the members of our diverse human family, she sings in ten languages: English, Spanish, French, Creole, Portuguese, Zulu, Arabic, Hebrew, Cherokee, and ki-Swahili. She draws on the folkloric traditions and musical idioms of all these cultures, as well as her own roots in Spirituals, Blues and Jazz.

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