Murmurs fame is noticeably optimistic. “If I’m going to be on this earth, I am going to find the light and I want to have the best time being here,” she says over Zoom on a sunny morning.Two years after being diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, Reid has moved from Los Angeles to Bend, Ore., where she surrounds herself with the things that heal her — the music of Stevie Wonder and Tina Turner, being in nature, meditation, and her family.
She also doesn’t stop moving forward.“I want to get this work done,” she says with a light in her eyes. “I think as an artist, if you don’t do it, if you don’t create, nothing happens.