User:Sandymanmurray/sandbox

Sandy Murray is a Bournemouth,Dorset,U.K. Soul Singer.At present with the Souled Out South band. He was born in Glasgow,Scotland on February 25th 1952(60)and has lived in Bournemouth since February 1972. First taste of the local music scene(1974) was with the now defunct band Freshly Layed as a roadie, then sound engineer. When that band broke up he formed his own P.A. company(1 2, P A hire)in 1979 with partner Tommy Winston(e).Through this company he became sound man/roadie for Tours,a local Punk/New Wave band that was just about to sign a recording deal with Virgin Records. In 1983 Sandy and some members of the Freshly Layed band decided to get together and form a band called The Fabulous Rocking Erics which would feature Sandy sharing vocal duties.This band was augmented by a brass section and changed their name to The Agency which was in 1985.In 1988 he was Archie Bell`s(Archie Bell & the Drells)special guest singer in Atlanta and other venues in Georgia. After 6 years almost to the day,he left the band to go to Australia for a year and when he returned done solo gigs with a guitar and backing tracks,sometimes under his alter image of Winton Chumly.the beginnings of the 2000s Sandy was singing with a Bournemouth band called Cover Up. The beginning of the 2002 was a chance meeting with a fellow music enthusiast(Ped Grealey)and they teamed up as a duo called San Pedro,where they would play local venues until September 2007 when they both helped form their present soul band.