Shirley Murdock's Soul Food

Shirley Murdock is known for the urban radio classics “As We Lay” and “Husband,” but the R&B veteran is singing a new tune now.

“I Love Me Better Than That” is meant to encourage and inspire people to self-improvement and self-love. The dramatic video of the song has already been selected for video rotation on VH1 and BET. Says Leslie Lewis, who appears in the music video, “The song really reaches the heart of women and gets

them thinking about their lives.”

Those women have run out and given Murdock her highest charting gospel CD ever. The new project “Soul Food” has debuted at #7 on Billboard magazine’s gospel album sales chart. It’s a sweet success for Murdock who has survived a whole lot of heartache and pain. “I Love Me Better Than That” is a personal testimony that permeates her new “Soulfood” CD (Tyscot Records). Through it all, she’s traded her tears for laughter, and in her own words, "gotten beauty for ashes.”