Randy Murray | |
Background: | non_vocal_instrumentalist |
Birth Name: | Charles Randall Murray |
Birth Date: | 9 December 1955 |
Birth Place: | Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
Genre: | Rock music |
Instrument: | Guitar, vocals |
Occupation: | Musician |
Past Member Of: | Bachman–Turner Overdrive |
Years Active: | 1970s–2017 |
Charles Randall "Randy" Murray (born 9 December 1955) is a Canadian rock guitarist and vocalist, and was a long-serving member of Bachman–Turner Overdrive.[1] From 1989 to 1992 he taught music, did custom recordings and held a radio talk show in Prince George, British Columbia. From the late 1970s to 1989, Murray was a fixture on the B.C./Alberta music scene. He was a member of the BTO line-up that was fronted by Tim Bachman while there were two versions of the group in the late 1980s, and again (this time along with Blair Thornton, Robbie Bachman, and Fred Turner) from 1991 until 2005, making this line-up the longest enduring of all the various Bachman-Turner Overdrive, B.T.O. and BTO incarnations. He began full time work as the Communications and Development Associate at the Anglican Diocese of New Westminster’s Cathedral Church in Vancouver, January 2006 and was subsequently appointed Communications Officer for the Anglican diocese July 15, 2009, retiring December 15, 2023. Murray continued performing around his hometown of Vancouver sporadically but retired from public performance in 2017.