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Martin Plaza is the pseudonym of Martin Murphy, a musician with Australian band Mental As Anything, sometime solo musician and accomplished artist.
Plaza was born Martin Murphy on the North Shore of Sydney in 1956. He attended St. Pius X at Chatswood, excelling in sporting and artistic pursuits but showing little interest in other subjects. After attending Hornsby Technical College he switched with fellow student Steve Coburn to what was then known as the East Sydney Technical College in Darlinghurst in the mid-1970s where he met Chris O'Doherty. Around this time he was working part time at KFC. With O'Doherty (later to be known as Reg Mombassa), Coburn and another student, David Twohill, he formed the rock band Mental as Anything in May 1976. The Mentals went on to become one of Australia’s most popular bands touring widely in Australia and overseas.
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