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- <text id=93TT0269>
- <title>
- July 26, 1993: Crazy Eddie's Swiss Miss
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- July 26, 1993 The Flood Of '93
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 77
- Crazy Eddie's Swiss Miss
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>By GINIA BELLAFANTE
- </p>
- <p> Ever since the Congress of Vienna guaranteed Switzerland's neutrality
- in 1815, the Swiss have remained an untendentious people. But
- that characteristic reserve was put to the test when EDDIE MURPHY
- made his world premiere as a funk-blues-rap-rock singer at the
- fabled Montreux International Jazz Festival near Lake Geneva.
- Murphy inauspiciously arrived for his show 1 1/2 hours late.
- By the end of the brief concert his voice had lost all steam,
- and audience members, many of whom had already flocked to a
- nearby bar, lost all patience. A Swiss-based music critic compared
- Eddie's vocals to a "screeching Mickey Mouse on Valium" and
- added that the singer "has no talent whatsoever." An assessment
- unlikely to deter Murphy from what he apparently sees as divine
- mission: "God put me on earth to become an artist," he told
- reporters at Montreux, "to express myself and give something
- to people. I'm an actor, a comedian, but also a musician and
- a singer." Live with it.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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