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Eddie Murphy was born on April 3,1961, in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, New York. He was the second son of Charles Murphy, a New York City policeman and amateur comedian, and his wife, Lillian Murphy Lynch,a telephone operator. When Eddie was 3 years old his parents divorced and his dad died 5 years later. The Murphy family struggled to survive. Eddie and his older brother, Charles, were placed in the care of a woman (Eddie recalls that "staying with her was probably the reason I became a comedian."), because their mother was hopitalized for a long period of time. As Eddie was growing up he did imitations of cartoon characters; such as Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry, and film comics like Laurel and Hardy and Jerry Lewis.
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Eddie Murphy was born in Brooklyn, New York on April 3rd, 1961. He was always entertaining his friends and family with his gift for voices and characterization. In his late teens he started entering talent contests and working in local clubs on Long Island. He eventually hit clubs in New York City. He worked hard, supporting himself with a job in shoe store while he performed in clubs and attended Nassau Community College.
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Murphy is ... a singer and musician, having frequently provided background vocals to songs released by the The Bus Boys. As a solo artist, Murphy had two hit singles, "Party All the Time" (which was produced by Rick James) and "Put Your Mouth on Me" in the mid-1980s (although he actually started singing earlier in his career, with the songs "Boogie In Your Butt" and "Enough Is Enough", the latter being a parody of Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer's 1979 song, "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)". They both appear on his 1982 self-titled comedy album.) "Party All the Time" was featured on Murphy's 1985 debut album How Could It Be, which also included a minor follow-up R&B hit in the title track, a duet with vocalist Crystal Blake. This track was written by Rusty Hamilton and was produced by Stevie Wonder's cousin Aquil Fudge after a brief falling out and bet with Rick James. In 2004, VH-1 and Blender voted "Party All the Time" number seven among the "50 Worst Songs of All-Time." Sharam used a sample of the song for the UK #8 hit "PATT (Party All The Time)" in 2006.
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Murphy was not being universally praised.... Grenier noted that the Village Voice made a "vitriolic attack" on Murphy for being an expression of "comedy for the 80's," one of "[U.S. President Ronald] Reagan's court jesters." In addition, because of his penchant for doing homosexual jokes, a militant gay group took out full-page ads in Billboard and Rolling Stone to denounce him as a "homophobe."
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The son of a Brooklyn policeman who died when he was eight, African-American comedy superstar Eddie Murphy was raised in the comfortable middle-class community of Hempstead, NY, by his mother and stepfather. A natural-born class clown, he was voted the most popular student at Roosevelt Junior and...Read More
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Murphy returned Monday from a multi-nation fact-finding mission with five other House members, including fellow Pennsylvania Democrat Chris Carney, a freshman from the 10th District. The weeklong trip ... took the group to Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Kuwait.
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