Full Name
Murray Porter
Speaker Bio
Blues Man Murray Porter’s music career has taken him all over the world for the last 40 years. He’s a proud Mohawk man from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory in southern Ontario, who now lives on Squamish Nation unceded territory in North Vancouver, British Columbia.
Murray may have a blues soul to the core, but he also grew up on rock and roll, R & B and country music. In 2022, he was nominated for `Blues With A Feeling’ award for Lifetime Achievement from the Maple Blues Awards, Canada’s national blues awards. Porter’s first CD since his 2012 JUNO Award for ‘Aboriginal Album of the Year’ is titled, “STAND UP!” and reflects these early musical influences. He strongly feels that this album is some of his best music to date. This album was nominated at the 2019 Native American Music Awards for ‘Best Blues Recording’ and ‘Best Male Artist of the Year’. Two songs,`Two Hearts & One Soul’, and `Love Will Find A Way’, words by Elaine Bomberry and music by Murray Porter, each hit Number One, on the Indigenous Music Countdown, in 2020.
Murray may have a blues soul to the core, but he also grew up on rock and roll, R & B and country music. In 2022, he was nominated for `Blues With A Feeling’ award for Lifetime Achievement from the Maple Blues Awards, Canada’s national blues awards. Porter’s first CD since his 2012 JUNO Award for ‘Aboriginal Album of the Year’ is titled, “STAND UP!” and reflects these early musical influences. He strongly feels that this album is some of his best music to date. This album was nominated at the 2019 Native American Music Awards for ‘Best Blues Recording’ and ‘Best Male Artist of the Year’. Two songs,`Two Hearts & One Soul’, and `Love Will Find A Way’, words by Elaine Bomberry and music by Murray Porter, each hit Number One, on the Indigenous Music Countdown, in 2020.
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