SINGING IS LIKE BREATHING TO ME. It gives me wings, it fills my lungs with sky. And I'm all about the sky. I'm obsessed with stars of all kinds - actual, astrological and Hollywood old-style glamour. I adore the colour blue and love the curious fact that ... blue is the hottest flame. It is infinite to me, more brilliant than a rainbow. It's a state of being, a mindset. Perhaps it's my artistic background. Add the slightest touch of yellow and suddenly you have Turquoise, the blues with sunshine in it, the happiest colour of all.

Eleven is the most perfect number to me. Double that - 11:11 - and you're in another world. I came to music through the medium of words - as a lyricist and a poet with a story to tell. Songwriting is magic. I believe you get what you sing. And that's why I sing about ... love.

I have a few foibles - coffee is one of them. Double shot almond latte SMALL size (to get that extra vital kick of caffeine) - or a Diva as I like to call it - and it must be freshly made, piping hot and served in an actual glass NOT an upside down paper hat that will destroy the earth. Otherwise I'll eat anything - except for tripe. Or whale. Or anything endangered. I'm scaling back my love of meat and food that’s not locally grown to help heal the planet. It's the very least I can do. This is the great age of our struggle to re-embrace nature and I want to be there for every pulsing heartbeat of it.

Words matter. Without them, there is no song, just a piece of music and a singer with nothing to do. I love teaching. It's another way of performing and I delight in that sense of sharing what I know, of opening up the music box of the world to young songwriters.

My mantra is ... words have power; stories must be told; songwriters know how to tell them in a way that literally sings ... and so often in the company of other songwriters. Make a song with someone you love and your friendship will be bound up forever on a soul level that's hard to define. It could of course just be all that oxytocin you're releasing together - or it could be the sheer joy of sharing such an amazing creative experience. Either way it's the closest thing to magic I've ever known.

Susan Muranty July 2026

Photo Credit: The Sky Is My Country Too (Video) - Directed by Michael Carpenter

Hollywood Here I Come!! Double Nominee HMMA Awards

I feel so lucky to have been nominated twice in the prestigious Hollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMA) – in 2018 for the winning lyrics to my song Stephen Hawking Wants You To and this year (2019) for The Heart You Break The Hardest is Your Own. I was so delighted when I won last year … I truly didn’t expect to and it was the most amazing feeling standing up there in front of all those wonderful worldclass songwriters, producers, musicians and performers AND having to find the right words to accept my award as graciously as I could without falling off the podium. Lol.

The Awards Night will be held in just a few weeks’ time and I’m looking forward to reconnecting with songwriting friends old and new and getting to know LA, that magical City of Light, just a little better. Like all the other nominees, I’ll have my fingers crossed for a win, but honestly it’s the loveliest gift just to have been nominated for such a prestigious and competitive award two years in a row, to be recognised for all the hard work, the endless nights, the passionate dedication to craftsmanship that separates the ordinary from the extraordinary. I love what I do, whether I’m having to move creative mountains to find the right words for a fragment of lyric or catching an entire song like a lucky star in my lap – which does occasionally happen. And no matter how high – or how far into uncharted creative territory – it takes me, I’m the luckiest girl in the world just to be able to say that.

Thank-you HMMA!! And thank-you to everyone for supporting me on this wild songwriting journey of mine. I’m loving every crazy minute.

Susan Muranty

Stephen Hawking and The Roses

Armfuls of “Peace”… sometimes I think roses are the most glorious artworks of all. These were photographed a week ago at Tesselear’s bulb farm in Victoria while I was working on one of my latest tracks at Barb and Adie Hannan’s The Songstore, just around the corner on their own beautiful rose-filled property not far from the Yarra Valley. My head was absolutely full of wonderful music in the making and to say I was happy was an understatement.

I’ve been thinking a great deal about art, excellence and beauty over this last week, especially since the death of cosmologist Stephen Hawking on Wednesday. For me, he was all about the highest possible forms of human thinking – the quest for the genius of truth in all things. I wrote a cheeky love song inspired by him a few years ago – Stephen Hawking Wants You To. It’s my own whimsical take on the eternal nature of true love’s kiss travelling forever into the universe like the light of a star – if only we could get far enough away to really see it and take in the bigger cosmic picture.

I always loved this song – singing it live has to be one of my greatest artistic joys – but I also knew the recording needed just a little more love and attention. In honour of the man himself, I’m releasing a remixed and remastered version of Stephen Hawking Wants You To with a new vocal – and a video!! – which will be out in the next couple of days. So please like and share as soon as you see it 🙂 Like any artist, I’ve given it my all. But I can’t help thinking that Stephen Hawking would have wanted me to lol. The best art sometimes takes its own time to flower – even over the space of years – and especially in the arms of one small indie artist trying to find her own creative voice in the world.

Vale Stephen Hawking. Your light will shine on for as long as there are human beings to look to the stars and scientists and artists to interpret them.

Susan on Substack

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Hollywood Here I Come!! Double Nominee HMMA Awards

Stephen Hawking and The Roses