Garden State

Alexi Murdoch is a singer-songwriter born in London and raised in Scotland, Greece and France, now living in Berlin. Murdoch was born in London to a... Greek father and Scottish-French mother and raised in Greece, just outside of Athens until he was ten, when his family moved to Scotland. Murdoch moved to the United States in 1992 to study at Duke University, before moving to Los Angeles, California to be with a girlfriend. He first gained notice when an influential Los Angeles DJ, Nic Harcourt, began playing his music on the radio station KCRW. It led to much interest from the LA's music industry, which Murdoch largely ignored, turning down advances from record labels and opting to release his music independently. He self-published the EP Four Songs through independent record stores and website CD Baby in November 2002. CD Baby sold over 50,000 copies of the release, becoming the site's all-time bestselling record. In 2003, he performed at the South by Southwest Music Conference and that year's Sundance Film Festival. and, in 2004, at the Hollywood Reporter/Billboard Film & TV Music Conference.
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