Oakenfold: 'Murphy singing blew me away'

Paul Oakenfold has said that he is convinced Brittany Murphy had untapped potential as a singer.

The DJ recruited the Clueless star to guest on his track 'Faster Kill Pussycat' in 2006, which eventually went on to top the US dance charts. However, despite the song's success, Oakenfold admitted that he had to persuade Murphy to release it under her own name.

He told People: "I said to her, 'Why hide behind something? You have a really great vocal. People are going to be shocked and pleasantly happy with what they're going to hear. You are not one of these actresses who are trying to sing and not doing a good job of it'.

"I demoed three other girls on that song and some of the girls were pretty big singers - and Brittany blew them away."

Oakenfold also revealed that the late actress was in the process of recording her own blues album and maintained that she had the talent to make it in the music industry.

He said: "Brittany trained as a singer before she did as an actress. She was a great actress but she had great vocal potential. She would have done well. She wanted to try (an album) with me, this smoky blues sound with electronic rhythms. She wanted to sound more traditional originally but I told her we should go more edgy.

"She was really excited by that and it's just a shame it never got as far as people thought it could. It's just a shame that the world is not going to hear more songs of Brittany Murphy."

Murphy died after suffering a cardiac arrest earlier this month.