Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy
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Colleen Murphy | |
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 Murphy at the British Library in 2022 | |
| Background information | |
| Also known as | Cosmo |
| Born | August 24, 1968 |
| Origin | Massachusetts, United States |
| Occupations | Radio broadcaster, DJ, music producer |
| Website | https://colleencosmomurphy.com/ |
Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy, (born August 24, 1968) is an American DJ, radio host and curator, audiophile,[1] and founder of the album listening event and content hub Classic Album Sundays.[2] She is often a spokesperson about vinyl records.[3][4]
Originally from Massachusetts, she attended New York University where she was Program Director and a DJ at the university radio station WNYU.[5]
Murphy has been a radio host, DJ and programme director since the age of fourteen[6][7] and today hosts Cosmodelica[8] and Classic Album Sundays Worldwide[9] on Worldwide FM and 'This Women's Work' series[10] for Public Radio International. Cosmodelica was selected by Time Out as one of the 10 best shows in London.[11]
Murphy is the writer and host of BBC 6 Music's album series "Sounds of a City"[12] and BBC Radio 4's documentary series "Turntable Tales".[13]
Unfold Japan, a radio series she hosted for Worldwide FM and Asahi has been nominated for an ARIA Award in 2020 Audio and Radio Industry Awards for Best Branded Content.[14]
DJ career
Murphy was mentored by David Mancuso at his seminal Loft parties in New York City[15] and became one of his most trusted friends and artistic collaborators.[16] Together they co-produced the compilation series David Mancuso Presents The Loft Volumes One[17] and Two,[18] and worked together on David's record label The Loft Audiophile Library of Music.[19] In 2000, David told Time Out New York City "She is very devoted and very pure about the music. She’s one of the only people I would trust, both with the music and with the equipment, to fill in for me."[20] She was asked by David to help manage his legacy and continues to be one of the musical hosts at The Loft in NYC.[21]
Murphy is also the cofounder of the Lucky Cloud Loft parties in London which she co-founded with Mancuso and friends[22] and DJs internationally on the world's best sound systems and dance floors.[23]
In 2019 Murphy was nominated in the DJ Mag North America Hall of Fame[24] and launched Love Dancin' Sound System with Trojan Sound System's Daddy Ad[25] at Gilles Peterson's We Out Here Festival, sharing some of her musical and sonic passions to dancers outside of her existing communities.[26]
Murphy was featured in Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution, a 2024 BBC and PBS co-production and three-part documentary about the rise of disco music in the 1970s.[27]
