The name is kind of just an ode to Chet Baker and the mood of music he used to play-something I would like to at least pay homage to in my own music.' Other influences he has cited include Bob Dylan, as well as his mother's Motown albums and his father's 'chilled out Ibiza CDs'. He had this really fragile vocal style-this really, broken, close-up and intimate style. the way he sang, when he moved into mainstream singing. He settled on the name as a homage to Chet Baker: 'I listened to a lot of jazz and I was a big fan of. Murphy played under his stage name after people came to his shows thinking he was a different and already established musician, Nick Murphy. In October 2020, four years after dropping the moniker, Murphy revived the Chet Faker name for the release of a new single, 'Low'. This was followed up by a surprise instrumental album, Music for Silence, in March 2020, initially released via the Calm meditation app. Murphy's second studio album – the first under his birth name – Run Fast Sleep Naked was released in April 2019. In September 2016, Murphy dropped the Chet Faker name to start performing and releasing material under his birth name, beginning with the release of a pair of singles later that year, and the Missing Link extended play in 2017.

Three tracks from the album were voted into the top ten of Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2014, including the number one spot for ' Talk Is Cheap'.

In April 2014, Built on Glass, his debut studio album, was released to generally positive reviews and debuted at number one on the Australian ARIA Charts. Murphy's cover of Blackstreet's ' No Diggity' was featured in a 2013 Super Bowl commercial for Beck's Sapphire. In January 2013, the work won Best Independent Release at the Rolling Stone Australia Awards for 2012. In October 2012, he won Breakthrough Artist of the Year and Thinking in Textures won Best Independent Single/EP at the Australian Independent Records Awards. In 2012, as Chet Faker, he issued an extended play, Thinking in Textures, and signed to Downtown Records in the United States. Nicholas James Murphy (born 23 June 1988), known professionally as Chet Faker, is an Australian singer and songwriter.

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