Keymon W. Murrah, a countertenor herald for his wide range and “hot coal core of tone”, is a native to Louisville, Kentucky.. He received a degree in Arts Administration at the University of Kentucky with a minor in Music Performance. 

Mr. Murrah has performed with the University of Kentucky Opera Theatre and the Bluegrass Opera. He has performed in "Die Fledermaus", "Die Zauberflote", "Tales of Hoffman", and "La Boheme" His most notable roles are Mingo in Porgy and Bess and creating the role of the Spiritual Man in Ernst Bacon’s "A Tree on the Plains" and has sung the role of Tolomeo from Handel's "Giulio Cesare with the Red River Lyric Opera. He will be performing Asprano in Vivaldi's “Montezuma” with the America Baroque Opera Co. Murrah as recently selected in at the Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute in a Masterclass with Joyce 
DiDonato. 

In 2009 Mr. Murrah received the Second Place Undergraduate Award at The Alltech Vocal Competition, In 2010 he won the second place award at the National Association of Negro Musicians and Bellarmine University’s “Traditional Negro Spiritual’ Voice Competition. In 2014, Mr. Murrah was a finalist in the Juanita Peterson Vocal Competition. In 2018, he won the Encouragement Award for the Metropolitan Opera Council Central District Auditions.