Julee Cruise
| Julee Cruise | |
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Julee Cruise performing live, 2008
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| Background information | |
| Born |
December 1, 1956 Creston, Iowa, US |
| Genres | Dream pop |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter, actress, musician |
| Instruments | Vocals, French horn |
| Years active | 1985–present |
| Labels |
Warner Bros. Records WEA International Inc. Avex Asia Ltd. Distinct'ive Records Playhouse Records |
| Website | Julee Cruise on Facebook |
Julee A. Cruise (born December 1, 1956, Creston, Iowa) is an American singer, songwriter, actress and musician whom writer and critic David Foster Wallace called "one of the ten most influential female singers in the last 20 years." She has recorded four albums, but is probably best known for "Falling", the theme song for the cult US television series Twin Peaks. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, she collaborated with composer Angelo Badalamenti and film director David Lynch, who produced and wrote the lyrics for many of her released songs. Cruise is also a songwriter in her own right. She is married to Edward Grinnan, Editor-in-Chief of Guideposts magazine and best-selling author of The Promise of Hope.
Born in Creston, Iowa, her father was the town dentist.
Julee Cruise studied French horn at Drake University and performed as a singer and actress in Minneapolis with the famed Children's Theater Company (notably in the role of Jinjur in stage adaptations of L. Frank Baum's Oz books). She moved to New York and played Janis Joplin in a revue called Beehive, while also working with Badalamenti.
In 1985, Badalamenti was composing the score for David Lynch's Blue Velvet, as well as serving as the vocal coach for the film's star, Isabella Rossellini. A key scene in Blue Velvet was intended to feature This Mortal Coil's version of "Song to the Siren" by Tim Buckley, but when the rights to the song proved prohibitively expensive, it was suggested that Badalamenti compose a pop song in the same style, with lyrics written by Lynch. Because the song required a vocalist with a haunting, ethereal voice, Badalamenti recommended Cruise, who had sung in a New York theater workshop Badalamenti had produced. The result of their initial collaboration was "Mysteries of Love", which figures prominently in Blue Velvet's closing scenes and gained a cult following.
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