Eddie Murphy biggest success in music came on his first try, with the 1985 smash “Party All the Time.” After that, not much was heard from the entertainer on the musical front — but he kept on plugging away at it out of the spotlight.
“When I’m not acting and being funny, in my private time in my personal time I do music more than anything. I’m always in the studio,” he said.
Now, Murphy is ready to let people know what he’s been working on, Last month, he released a reggae single, “Oh Jah Jah,” inspired by recent events.
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AP: Any plans on returning to stand-up comedy?
Murphy: When I was doing stand-up it was a hundred comedians, now it’s a hundred thousand of them. So if I got onstage again I’d have to be doing something that makes me different from all these other hundred thousand comics. My fantasy when I think about live performances is playing with a really strong band playing a half-hour or 40 minutes of music and having the curtains go down then doing an hour of stand-up comedy. I’d have a really fly show if I could pull that one off.
