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Julee Cruise was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and musician who appeared as herself in Twin Peaks , Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me , and the series' 2017 revival .

In the original series, she performed the songs " Falling " and " The Nightingale " in the pilot and " Rockin' Back Inside My Heart " and " The World Spins " in Episode 14 . Her song " Into the Night " is also heard in Episode 5 . In the 2017 series, she performed "The World Spins" in Part 17 . All of these songs were originally released on Cruise's 1989 album Floating into the Night .

In the film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me , Cruise performed the song " Questions in a World of Blue ". The song appeared on the film's soundtrack album and on Cruise's 1993 album The Voice of Love . The latter album also included a vocal version of the song "The Voice of Love", which appeared in an instrumental version in the film and on the soundtrack album.

Cruise first worked with Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch on Blue Velvet , for which she performed the prominently-featured song "Mysteries of Love." She was also featured in Lynch and Badalamenti's avant-garde 1990 theater production Industrial Symphony No. 1, which was filmed and released on home media. They also collaborated for two albums: Floating into the Night and The Voice of Love which included songs written for Blue Velvet , Twin Peaks , and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me .

Other notable singles included "Rockin' Back Inside My Heart" (1990) and "If I Survive" (1999) by the band Hybrid, which featured her vocals. She recorded several memorable covers over the years, including Cliff Richard's "Wired for Sound" with B(if)tek, R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" with Eric Kupper, Eurythmics's "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" with DJ Silver, Elvis Presley's "Summer Kisses, Winter Tears", and David Bowie's "Space Oddity" with Supa DJ Dmitry.

Cruise was also a stage actress and appeared in the off-Broadway musicals Return to the Forbidden Planet and Radiant Baby in 2004. Her final album, My Secret Life , was released in 2011. Cruise died on June 9, 2022, aged 65; her death was a suicide.

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Floating into the Night (1989)
The Voice of Love (1993)
The Art of Being a Girl (2002)
My Secret Life (2011)

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Julee Cruise, otherworldly crooner on 'Twin Peaks,' dies at 65

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In the '90s, Julee Cruise filled in for The B-52s member Cindy Wilson on tour. The singer is best known for her work with David Lynch on Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet . Ted Town/Toronto Star via Getty Images hide caption

In the '90s, Julee Cruise filled in for The B-52s member Cindy Wilson on tour. The singer is best known for her work with David Lynch on Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet .

Julee Cruise, the singer best known for her collaborations with director David Lynch and The B-52s , died Thursday. Her husband, author Edward Grinnan, confirmed to NPR that Cruise died by suicide, and had struggled with "lupus, depression and alcohol and drug addiction" in the past. She was 65.

"She left this realm on her own terms," Grinnan wrote of Cruise in a Facebook post Thursday evening. "No regrets. She is at peace. I played her [the B-52s song] Roam during her transition. Now she will roam forever. Rest In Peace, my love, and love to you all."

Born Dec. 1, 1956 in Creston, Iowa, Cruise was known for her unusual vocal presence, so intensely calm and collected that it could be unsettling — which found a receptive audience in Lynch and score composer Angelo Badalamenti . For the 1986 film Blue Velvet , the two were looking to mimic the effect of This Mortal Coil's version of "Song to the Siren" by Tim Buckley , whose rights proved too costly to clear. The result of their collaboration was the original track " Mysteries of Love ," in which Cruise's dreamlike vocals are set to a slow-moving fog of romantic synths and strings.

Inspired, the trio worked together again on Floating into the Night , Cruise's solo debut. Released in 1989, the album includes songs from Blue Velvet and others that would be featured in Lynch's concert film Industrial Symphony No. 1 and, most famously, the early '90s touchstone Twin Peaks .

An instrumental version of "Falling" was used as the theme song for the ABC television series, and onscreen, Cruise became a regular feature at The Roadhouse, a home for the show's bikers and crooners. She would return for the series' later incarnations, the feature film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me and the 2017 limited series Twin Peaks: The Return .

"In the ruckus of beers flying through the air at The Roadhouse, we have Julee singing a beautiful, slow-tempo song, and it's so outrageous," Badalamenti shared with the academic journal Series in 2016 . "You would never have that kind of song in a place like that. The songs with Julee serve a two-fold purpose: They contrast the visuals and they set the tone for the show."

Cruise worked again with Lynch and Badalamenti for her 1993 album The Voice of Love , but after that she wouldn't release music again until The Art of Being a Girl (2002) and My Secret Life (2011). Those post-millennium albums, she said, were something of a reaction to time spent in what she called a "boy's club."

"It's not really about David or Angelo," Cruise told Pitchfork in 2018 . "It's about how we're perceived as women and also how we love women. It's about how I watched my predecessors fight: Madonna , Kim Gordon , Kate Pierson — who is a god and a force to be reckoned with. We're not followers, we're front-runners. I came out of the womb with my fists."

In addition to singing, Cruise was also a Broadway actress, a pilot and a dog trainer. In the '90s, she filled in as a touring member of The B-52s while Cindy Wilson — another tough singer drawn to blurring the lines between kitsch and fine art — focused on raising a family. It was "the happiest time of her performing life," Grinnan writes in his post. "She will be forever grateful to them. When she first stepped up to the mic with Fred [Schneider] and Kate she said it was like joining the Beatles. She will love them always and never forget their travels together around the world."

At the end of that Pitchfork interview, Cruise mused about her late father and her family's cemetery plot in Minneapolis. "We have our own great graveyard there," she said, "but I'm not gonna get buried. I'm going to have my ashes mixed in with my dogs. They're gonna spread my ashes across Arizona, and Arizona is going to turn blue."

If you or someone you know may be considering suicide, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 (En Español: 1-888-628-9454; Deaf and Hard of Hearing: 1-800-799-4889) or the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741.

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Julee Cruise’s voice floated out of ‘Twin Peaks’ and into reality

The late singer’s dreamlike music feels inextricable from david lynch’s vision. can we hear it on its own terms.

We hardly give it any thought, but one of the most astonishing things music can do is step across the line that separates fiction and reality. Whenever a character in a film or a television show sings a song in their world, it instantly becomes a song in ours. There’s no transforming or transposing required. It’s in there. Now it’s out here. Amazing, right? This isn’t like reciting your favorite “Seinfeld” joke at dinner or dressing up like Darth Vader for Halloween. Fictional characters — and all the wonderful, horrible things they say and do — cannot join us in reality. Music can.

When the hypnagogic lullabies of Julee Cruise started leaking out of David Lynch’s metaphysical soap opera “Twin Peaks” in 1990, the border between make-believe and the real world felt more porous than usual. In the show, Cruise — who died on Thursday at 65 — played an enigmatic roadhouse singer with a voice both small and big, stylish and spacey, intimate and distant, as if she’d been ousted from a Brill Building girl-group and tasked with imitating a children’s choir on the moon.

As for the songs, they were as immersive and imprecise as dreams, difficult to remember and impossible to forget — “ Falling ,” “ Into the Night ,” “ Rockin’ Back Inside My Heart ,” “ The Nightingale ,” “ The World Spins ” — each written and produced by Lynch and his soundtrack composer Angelo Badalamenti, and released on Cruise’s exquisite debut album, “Floating Into the Night,” roughly seven months before “Twin Peaks” changed how everyone watched television.

I suppose that release schedule complicates the fictionality of Cruise’s music. In their public infancy, these songs got to do a little living outside of Lynch’s vision, and as difficult as it might be, we should try to hear them on their own terms today. Cruise obviously didn’t want to live in “Twin Peaks” forever. Shortly after the show first went off the air in 1991, she signed on as a touring member of the B-52’s where she filled in for Cindy Wilson and was deputized with, among other things, delivering the “tin roof ... rusted” line during “Love Shack.” (When Lynch rebooted “Twin Peaks” for a third season in 2017, Cruise appeared in the penultimate episode, singing “The World Spins” alongside the Chromatics, one of countless bands influenced by her dreamy chic.)

Is it even possible to hear “Floating Into the Night” on its own terms? Or on ours? Seven years ago, I decided I was tired of seeing red curtains in my mind’s eye whenever a Julee Cruise song reached my mind’s ear. So I cued up her music on a breathtaking road trip through West Texas, hoping to rewire the associations in my brain. It worked and it didn’t. Now when I hear Cruise’s voice, I see prickly-pear cactuses growing out of checkered floors.

It’s not unlike one of those double-exposure dissolves that Lynch is so fond of, or maybe something even better. Instead of moving back and forth between fiction and reality, Cruise’s music can live fully in both.

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Singer Julee Cruise , best known for her collaborations with David Lynch , most notably via Twin Peaks , has died. She was 65 . TV Stars We Lost in 2022 View Gallery 82 Images

Cruise’s death was confirmed by her husband Edward Grinnan on Facebook, according to The Guardian . “She left this realm on her own terms,” he wrote. “No regrets. She is at peace.”

In 2018, Cruise announced that she was battling Systemic Lupus. “I can… hardly walk,” she wrote on Facebook . “And now it’s difficult to stand… The pain is so bad I cry and snap at people.”

Featuring music by Angelo Badalamenti and lyrics by Lynch, an instrumental version of Cruise’s haunting 1989 track “Falling” was used as the theme to Twin Peaks.

Cruise made occasional appearances in the original, early ’90s Twin Peaks on ABC as a singer at local watering hole The Roadhouse, a role she reprised in the 2017 Showtime revival Twin Peaks: The Return . She also turned up in the 1992 film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me .

Cruise also collaborated with Lynch and Badalamenti on the former’s 1986 film Blue Velvet , which features her song “Mysteries of Love.”

“It’s like I’m his little sister: you don’t like your older brother telling you what to do,” Cruise reportedly said of her working relationship with Lynch. “David’s foppish. He can have these tantrums sometimes. And have you ever seen his temper? Anybody can look funny when they get mad. But I love him.”

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“ He said one day / ‘I’ll meet you’ / Our hearts will fly / With the nightingale / The nightingale / He told me / One day / ‘You will be with me’” You are a wonderful piece to the delightfully misshapen Lynchian puzzle. Sleep well, Julee.

Don’t forget that she also reinterpreted and sang the Psych theme song (Dual Spires episode).

She also filled in extensively for Cindy Wilson on tour with the B-52s in the 90s when Wilson left the band.

I still listen to Floating. A sad loss but she’s in a better place.

Sad to hear she was ill for her last years. I still listen to her CD, Floating into the Night, several times each year, as well as the original Twin Peaks soundtrack and her other albums. RIP, Julee.

Twin Peaks is truely perfection, Julee is a massive part of it. I know shes more than a tv show but twin peaks was my first introduction to her tallent . RIP

Possibly my all-time favorite theme song. I thought it was hauntingly beautiful. Sorry to read this news.

This is such sad news, I’m sorry she suffered so! As great as Twin Peaks is, it certainly would have been less so without her ethereal, haunting voice. R.I.P.

She was amazing. “Rockin’ Back Inside My Heart” is a personal favorite that I still listen to often. What a unique talent. She will be missed but forever immortalized in the works of David Lynch.

Julee Cruise, Vocalist of ‘Twin Peaks’ Fame, Dies at 65

In projects for the director David Lynch, she brought an eerie, otherworldly style to “Falling” and other songs.

By Neil Genzlinger

Julee Cruise, a singer who brought a memorably ethereal voice to the projects of the director David Lynch — most famously “Falling,” whose instrumental version was the theme for Mr. Lynch’s cult-favorite television show, “Twin Peaks” — died on Thursday in Pittsfield, Mass. She was 65.

Her husband, Edward Grinnan, said the cause was suicide. He said she had struggled with depression as well as lupus.

Ms. Cruise was building a career off Broadway in the early 1980s when serendipity struck: She met the composer Angelo Badalamenti when they worked on a show together.

“I was in this country-and-western musical in the East Village,” she told The San Francisco Chronicle in 1990. “I was a chorus girl with a big skirt and a big wig, singing way too loud. Angelo was doing the music for the show, and we became friends.”

A few years later, Mr. Badalamenti was engaged by Mr. Lynch, who was still early in his career, as a vocal coach for Isabella Rossellini in the 1986 Lynch movie “Blue Velvet” and ended up writing the score for that film as well. Mr. Lynch and Mr. Badalamenti had written a song for the film that needed a vocalist.

“Angelo asked me to find someone to sing a song for the soundtrack called ‘Mysteries of Love,’ but he didn’t like any of the singers I recommended,” she told The Chronicle. “He wanted dreamy and romantic. I said, ‘Let me do it.’”

Ms. Cruise had always thought of herself as “a belter,” as she often put it (she had once played Janis Joplin in a musical revue called “Beehive”), but the voice she came up with for “Mysteries of Love” was something else entirely, enigmatic and wispy. It suited that and other Lynch-Badalamenti compositions perfectly. One writer called her style “angel-on-Quaaludes vocals.”

The three were soon collaborating on Ms. Cruise’s first album, “Floating Into the Night,” which featured songs by the two men, including “Mysteries of Love” and “Falling.” They also collaborated on a stage production called “Industrial Symphony No. 1,” performed at the New Music America festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in November 1989, with Ms. Cruise performing amid an elaborate set that included an old car.

“Often, Ms. Cruise floated far above the stage, like a prom-gowned, bleached-blond angel,” Jon Pareles wrote in his review in The New York Times. “At one point, her body plummeted to the floor and was packed into the car’s trunk by helmeted workmen; later, she re-emerged to face a video camera and sing ‘Tell your heart it’s me,’ as 10 chorus girls in gold lamé danced next to her image on television screens.”

National exposure came the following April when “Twin Peaks” premiered on ABC, with an instrumental version of “Falling” serving as its theme. Ms. Cruise appeared in the pilot and subsequent episodes as a roadhouse singer.

The show quickly became the talk of television, and in May 1990 it led to an appearance by Ms. Cruise on “Saturday Night Live.” She wasn’t in the original lineup, but the controversial comic Andrew Dice Clay (he called himself “the most vulgar, vicious comic ever to walk the face of the earth”) was the scheduled host, which led to protests from at least one cast member, Nora Dunn, who refused to appear in that episode, and caused the original musical guest, Sinead O’Connor, to drop out at the last minute.

Ms. Cruise was one of two acts summoned to replace her. Mr. Grinnan said in a telephone interview that Ms Cruise, who was still not well known, was working as a waitress at the time and had to skip out on her job. But, he noted, she didn’t call in sick.

“She said that she called in famous,” he said.

Though “Twin Peaks” brought Ms. Cruise wide exposure, Mr. Grinnan said she found a stint touring with the B-52’s in the 1990s to be particularly enjoyable. She replaced Cindy Wilson, an original member, when Ms. Wilson took a break from the band.

“It was probably the happiest performing of her life,” Mr. Grinnan said.

Julee Ann Cruise was born on Dec. 1, 1956, in Creston, Iowa, to Wilma and Dr. John Cruise. Her father was a dentist, and her mother was his office manager.

Ms. Cruise was something of a musical prodigy on the French horn, her husband said, and received a music degree in the instrument from Drake University in Iowa. He said she had applied the delicacy and phrasing of classical French horn to the voice she came up with for the Lynch projects.

But once she graduated, she thought that acting and singing would be more appealing than playing in an orchestra. She went to Minneapolis, a good city for theater, and spent several years performing with the Children’s Theater Company there before moving to New York in about 1983.

After “Twin Peaks,” Ms. Cruise made another album with Mr. Lynch and Mr. Badalamenti, “The Voice of Love” (1993). She also continued acting. Mr. Grinnan said it was her performance in an Off Broadway musical, “Return to the Forbidden Planet,” in 1991 that caught the attention of the B-52’s. Mel Gussow, reviewing that show for The Times, said she stood out.

“Only Julee Cruise invigorates the show with musical personality,” he wrote. “Well remembered for her singing on ‘Twin Peaks,’ she is spunky as well as amusing, although the script unwisely keeps her offstage for most of the first act.”

Ms. Cruise later toured with Bobby McFerrin and worked with electronic musicians like Marcus Schmickler. In 2003 she fulfilled a longtime goal of performing at the Public Theater in New York when she was cast in the musical “Radiant Baby,” about the graffiti artist Keith Haring.

It was a demanding assignment. As The Times wrote , she played “Andy Warhol, Haring’s mother, a demonic nurse and a critic who resembles Susan Sontag.”

Which of the roles was most difficult, a reporter asked?

“The costume changes,” she said. “I’m the oldest person in this cast.”

Ms. Cruise alternated between homes in Manhattan and the Berkshires. In addition to her husband, whom she married in 1988, she is survived by a sister, Kate Coen.

Ms. Cruise reprised her “Twin Peaks” role in “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me,” Mr. Lynch’s 1992 film, and, a quarter-century later, in an episode of Showtime’s reboot of the TV series. In an interview with The Los Angeles Times in 2017, she reflected on her long “Twin Peaks” ride.

“It was so much fun to be part of something that just went ba-boom!” she said. “You didn’t know it was going to do that. What a nice surprise life takes you on.”

Neil Genzlinger is a writer for the Obituaries desk. Previously he was a television, film and theater critic. More about Neil Genzlinger

How Julee Cruise Captured The Essence of ‘Twin Peaks’ With a Single Song

The iconic dream pop singer Julee Cruise tragically passed away on Friday . Cruise was beloved among film fans for her collaborations with surrealist filmmaker David Lynch and his composer Angelo Badalamenti . The three artists worked in tandem to create unique, unconventional soundtracks. Lynch provided the memerizing visuals and Badalamenti delivered the haunting overtones, but it was Cruise who found the beauty amidst the darkness. What’s scary about Lynch’s work isn’t that he’s showing a world without hope; he takes the time to spotlight moments of beauty, and show how they are corrupted.

Lynch’s 1990 series Twin Peaks changed the history of television forever. The entire concept of the “Golden Age of Television” in some way derived front the precedent that Lynch set; Twin Peaks was a week-to-week narrative that brought the craftsmanship of television productions up to a new level. Although it was initially the mystery of Laura Palmer’s ( Sheryl Lee ) death that entranced viewers, Twin Peaks is a deeper tragedy than it initially appears to be. There is no end to the cycle of violence that is bound to continue. Agent Dale Cooper’s ( Kyle MacLachlan ) investigation won’t bring Laura any justice, but by continuing to search for her, he’s keeping the beauty of her memory alive.

These themes of tragedy and lost beauty are most evident during a pivotal sequence in the Season 2 episode “Lonely Souls.” Various characters are drawn together at The Roadhouse. As Cooper hears a message from The Giant ( Carel Struycken ), the identity of Laura’s killer is finally revealed. Her father, Leland ( Ray Wise ), was possessed by the demonic entity BOB ( Frank Silva ). The truth does not set anyone free; under BOB’s control, Leland murders Laura’s identical cousin, Maddie Ferguson (Lee). “It’s happening again,” The Giant says to Cooper.

What makes this moment so much more heartbreaking is Cruise’s song “Falling,” which plays throughout the intertwined sequences. Cruise’s bittersweet vocals capture the inherent tragedy of Twin Peaks ; just as one beautiful thing is set free, another one is taken away. The words reflect that while there are wondrous occurrences in nature, “something is different.” Does loving something, or someone, make it even crueler when it’s stolen away? Or is love the only thing that draws in violence to begin with? It’s one of the most profound moments in all of Twin Peaks , and it wouldn’t have been nearly as effective without Cruise’s work.

Twin Peaks is inspired by classic noir, which put it at odds with virtually every other “procedural” detective series on network television at the time. Lynch wasn’t interested in “moving on” to a new case each week; the procedural structure seemingly provided “closure” to these mysteries, and did not take the time to contemplate the victims’ lives. To “move on” from one murder to another would only normalize it. Like the classic noir cases of Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe, the Twin Peaks characters took time to reflect on the cruelty of the world. Cruise’s music was integral to capturing the jazzy atmosphere of a 1940s nightclub.

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The Roadhouse frequently draws together characters from the Twin Peaks universe for these important moments of contemplation. There’s an aura of tragedy that haunts the location, and Cruise’s music is frequently heard in the background. “Lonely Souls” featured the most extended musical number in the show thus far. It marked a true turning point in the show’s narrative, even if it wasn’t the one that Lynch had originally intended.

Lynch had never planned to reveal the identity of Laura’s killer, but network interference from ABC forced him to give the mystery the type of “wrap up” that he’d wanted to avoid. “Lonely Souls” transitioned Twin Peaks from a show just about Laura to a series about the town itself. Laura’s death only revealed the darkness that had been brewing beneath the town’s semblance of idealism. In order to make this shift apparent, Twin Peaks had to take a moment to reflect on the past. Lynch knew that Cruise’s song was the perfect way to do so.

“Falling” had been the series’ theme song from the beginning, but “Lonely Souls” was the first time viewers got to hear the full version with lyrics. The critical moment was solidified by Cruise herself, who appears during The Roadhouse sequence in a cameo role. This was the first time that Cruise had acted in the series since the pilot episode.

Anytime that Cruise graced Twin Peaks with a personal appearance, viewers knew it was an important moment where the saga would change directions. Cruise reprised her role in Lynch’s 1992 prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me , which explores the events leading to Laura’s death from her perspective. When Cruise begins singing on stage, Laura begins her descent into darkness when she starts talking to two men. It was the beginning of her end.

Cruise reprised her moment once more in Lynch’s 2017 sequel series Twin Peaks: The Return . In “Part 17,” Cooper travels back in time to literally “save” Laura from her death, thus rewriting history and spiraling the universe into chaos. Any good intentions he had are immediately subverted; Laura is confused and terrified. As the episode closes, Cruise appears on stage again to indicate that Laura will never escape her fate. Cruise is accompanied by The Chromatics for a performance of “The World Spins.” It was a great generational moment, as the music of The Chromatics provided the same atmosphere for The Return that Cruise had provided for the original series.

Lynch himself delivered a heartfelt video tribute to Cruise’s legacy, where he called her “a great musician, great singer, and a great human being.” The Twin Peaks cast has been similarly respectful, and MacLachlan also paid tribute to Cruise in a touching social media post . Her impact on Twin Peaks remains a significant reason why the series became the cultural game changer that it was.

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Julee Cruise singing the theme song Falling from the pilot episode of the hit television series Twin Peaks, 1990.

Julee Cruise obituary

Julee Cruise, who has taken her own life at the age of 65 after a long period of illness and depression, was famed for the spectral calmness of her voice, as demonstrated on the four solo albums she made between 1989 and 2011 and by her many collaborations with a variety of other artists.

She was launched into the spotlight through her partnership with the composer Angelo Badalamenti and the film director David Lynch, with whom she first worked on Lynch’s film Blue Velvet (1986). Lynch and Badalamenti conceived the song Mysteries of Love for the soundtrack when they were unable to afford the rights for This Mortal Coil’s version of Tim Buckley’s Song to the Siren. The result was a mesmerising, slow-motion masterpiece, its tapestry of strings and synthesisers hanging in space as Cruise’s voice haunted the arrangement like a distant ghost.

The trio reconvened to record Cruise’s debut album Floating Into the Night (1989), a skilful mix of retro 1950s-style influences with dreamy and mysterious textures, all focused around Cruise’s shimmering vocals. The track Falling, with its ominous electric guitar twangs, became a cult phenomenon after Lynch used an instrumental version of it as the theme for his groundbreaking TV show Twin Peaks in 1990. As Falling went to No 7 and No 11 in the UK and US singles charts respectively, Cruise, who was working as a waitress at the time, suddenly found celebrity thrust upon her, not least via an invitation to appear on the TV show Saturday Night Live.

Other songs from the album were used in Twin Peaks and also in Lynch’s Industrial Symphony No. 1, an avant-garde concert performance staged in 1989 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, in which Cruise appeared with the actors Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern and Michael J Anderson. Her part called for her to hang 80ft above the stage wearing a prom dress.

Cruise made an appearance in the Twin Peaks’ pilot episode singing Falling, and featured in later instalments as a singer in the Roadhouse bar. She would also appear in its later iterations, the feature film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992) and Twin Peaks: The Return (2017). “In the ruckus of beers flying through the air at The Roadhouse, we have Julee singing a beautiful, slow-tempo song, and it’s so outrageous,” Badalamenti said of her role. “The songs with Julee serve a two-fold purpose: they contrast the visuals and they set the tone for the show.”

She told the NME: “The way I see it is David [Lynch] is very talented and he’s formed a company of actors around him which he uses over and over again … I see myself as the musical wing of that company.”

Born in Creston, Iowa , she was the daughter of John Cruise, the town dentist, and his wife, Wilma, his office manager. “I was a kinda late bloomer, I didn’t go out with boys at high school,” she said. “I was the most popular girl in school, but I was one of those girls that wasn’t easy, so nobody would go out with me.”

She took a music degree in the french horn at Drake University in Des Moines. After graduation she opted to pursue a career in singing and acting rather than classical music. Moving to Minneapolis, she spent several years performing with the Children’s Theater Company before relocating to New York in the early 80s. She played Janis Joplin in a revue called Beehive, and appeared in productions of Little Shop of Horrors and A Little Night Music. She first met Badalamenti after she was cast in a country and western musical. “I was a chorus girl with a big skirt and a big wig, singing way too loud,” she recalled. “Angelo was doing the music for the show, and we became friends.”

Cruise’s second album, The Voice of Love (1993), was a further collaboration with Lynch and Badalamenti, much in the same vein as its predecessor. It was not until 2002 that she recorded another solo album, The Art of Being a Girl, this time collaborating with the producer JJ McGeehan, who co-wrote some of the material. Its mix of lilting jazz and cabaret styles with a discreet side order of electronica proved that Cruise was capable of far more than being a mouthpiece for Lynch and Badalamenti.

Julee Cruise, centre, with David Lynch, left, and Angelo Badalamenti in New York in 1989.

Almost a decade passed before she made her final album, My Secret Life (2011), a collaboration with DJ Dmitry from Deee-lite. Alongside hip-hop beats and electronic treatments, her voice retained its ethereal mystique.

Among numerous other projects across her career, Cruise (with Lynch and Badalamenti) recorded a version of Elvis Presley’s Summer Kisses, Winter Tears for the soundtrack of Wim Wenders’ film Until the End of the World (1991), and she toured with the B-52’s for most of the 90s while their vocalist Cindy Wilson took a sabbatical – a period which, according to her husband, the author and publisher Edward Grinnan, was “the happiest time of her performing life”.

She also performed regularly with Bobby McFerrin’s vocal group Voicestra, and other artists she collaborated with included Moby, Pharrell Williams, the Welsh electronic band Hybrid and the ambient duo Delerium. Her music has been used in TV shows including CSI: Miami and House.

She had been suffering from lupus for several years before her death, and had problems with drugs and alcohol. She is survived by her husband.

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Julee Cruise Returns for “Twin Peaks” Finale: Watch

By Amanda Wicks

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Julee Cruise performed on “Twin Peaks” tonight during the first part of the show’s two-part finale. She reprised “The World Spins”—an original song with music by composer Angelo Badalamenti and lyrics by director David Lynch—with Chromatics backing her. “I didn’t want there to be any distraction on stage,” Johnny Jewel told Pitchfork . “The old Roadhouse bands were these rockabilly greaser types, all in black, so I had the band wear black. We were aiming to be shadows.” Cruise originally performed the song during the second season in 1991. Watch her return here . Cruise first lent her voice to “Twin Peaks” for the vocal version of the theme song “Falling.” Listen to it below. “I actually never sang in that trademark ‘Julee Cruise voice’ before I worked with Angelo and David,” she told The Guardian earlier this year. “I was always a real belter, lots of power. Working with them changed me.”

Cruise marked the latest performance on the reprised series. Last week, Eddie Vedder took the stage to play “Out of Sand.” Other guest musicians include the Chromatics , Moby , Sky Ferreira, Hudson Mohawke, Au Revoir Simone , Nine Inch Nails , Dirty Beaches’ Alex Zhang Hungtai , and Sharon Van Etten .

Two new soundtracks featuring tunes from “Twin Peaks” arrive September 8 via Rhino. The show’s music supervisor Dean Hurley recently released an album, Anthology Resource Vol. 1: △△ , that comprises his work for the third season. Revisit “ Analyzing the Music (or Lack Thereof) in the New ‘Twin Peaks’ ” on the Pitch.

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As David Lynch prepared last year to shoot a musical performance that would help close out his revival of “Twin Peaks,” his direction to singer Julee Cruise was simple. “He said, ‘Julee, you are a child full of wonder,’” recalls Cruise, a longtime musical collaborator with Lynch. “And he meant it. If he means it, then I’m going to do it.”

During Sunday’s two-episode finale to Showtime’s “Twin Peaks: The Return,” Cruise performed “The World Spins,” a dreamy, mournful, hopeful song known to fans of the original series. With music composed by Angelo Badalamenti and lyrics by Lynch, she sang in hushed, ethereal tones: “Moving near the edge at night / Dust is dancing in the space / A dog and bird are far away.”

In the show’s fictional rural town of Twin Peaks, Cruise was back onstage at the Roadhouse, the only return engagement from the original series of 1990-91. For most of the revival’s 18 episodes, Lynch featured a live performance of a full song at the Roadhouse (also identified by an exterior neon sign as the Bang Bang Bar), where the artists have included Nine Inch Nails, Eddie Vedder, Au Revoir Simone and the Chromatics. For Cruise, it meant once again performing a song that has helped define her idiosyncratic career and the recognizable sound texture of many Lynch films. “It gives me goose bumps: ‘Dust is dancing in the space,’” she says of the lyrics. “How many times have we seen that but haven’t been able to write it? That is a beautiful lyric. It’s that life goes on — it does .”

In the original series, Cruise performed the same song at the Roadhouse in a climactic second-season episode that revealed the killer of troubled prom queen Laura Palmer. That episode was directed by Lynch, and Cruise’s performance captured its feeling of tragedy, sadness and revelation. On Sunday, “The World Spins” emotionally connected the new series with the original, signaling the passage of time.

“I will always be known as this,” Cruise says of her work with Lynch, “and I will always be proud of this.” The song predates the debut of “Twin Peaks,” originating on the singer’s 1989 debut album, “Floating Into the Night,” produced in New York City by Lynch and Badalamenti. The collaboration created the sonic blueprint for the series. An instrumental of the album’s “Falling” became a recognizable theme of the show, reflecting Lynch’s taste for what he has described as the “low and slow.”

“I worked with these guys for an entire year and a half,” Cruise recalls of those pre-digital recording sessions. “It was analog, and the synth would break down. I was frightened every single song, bringing my head voice down.”

Cruise met Lynch during the production of the filmmaker’s 1986 breakthrough feature, “Blue Velvet.” When Lynch was unable to secure the rights to This Mortal Coil’s recording of “Song to the Siren,” Cruise was recruited to sing on a replacement song that aimed to capture the same mysterious flavor: “Mysteries of Love,” written by Lynch and soundtrack composer Badalamenti. The ethereal nature of the song was a new challenge for Cruise, who previously had been enough of a belter to once play Janis Joplin in a stage revue.

The sound the trio created together defined the rest of her career. “I must have taken it from listening to what my mom and dad loved — low, low, bluesy-type music, like Shirley Bassey. But I sing this like a classical French horn player,” she says now. “There is no baby-ness to it. There is no girlishness to it. If you listen to it, and all the harmonies that I did make for it ... are like a French horn quartet. And that is the way Angelo would want it, and loved how I phrased things. And David was quite a good trumpet player.” Lynch’s presence was essential to that sound. “Leave it up to just Angelo and me performing? No, it just wouldn’t have the magic.”

To shoot her performance for Sunday’s episode of “Twin Peaks: The Return,” Cruise flew to the Roadhouse interior set in Pasadena in February 2016. Lynch asked her to dress in what she would normally wear for a concert. After two takes, she was done. Cruise stayed on set long enough to watch another Lynch regular, Rebekah Del Rio, perform “No Stars,” with Moby on guitar behind her, for a different episode of the series. “She did two takes,” recalls Cruise. “It was amazing.”

Cruise tours less often now, but she is contemplating some live performances around the world, including in Australia and Europe. After “Twin Peaks” became a sensation during its first season, her own career took off. She recorded a second solo album with Lynch and Badalamenti, 1993’s “The Voice of Love,” and she starred in a one-hour musical film, “Industrial Symphony No. 1,” released in 1990 by Warner Bros. Records.

“It was so much fun to be part of something that just went ba-boom!” Cruise says. “You really didn’t know it was going to do that. What a nice surprise life takes you on.”

Over the years, she’s recorded other albums with different producers, has filled in for the B-52s’ Cindy Wilson on tour and has performed frequently with Bobby McFerrin, but she still identifies herself most strongly with her work with Lynch. It has sometimes made her feel possessive of the director, she says with a laugh.

“I heard somebody say, ‘Oh, there’s a new Julee Cruise,’” she says with mock horror. “That’s all it took. I don’t know what singer it was. I get very possessive. David is mine. How could they?”

She recognizes the influence her work with Lynch has had on a new generation of singers and musicians, and she has become friends with some of them, including Sky Ferreira. She has never met chanteuse Chrysta Bell, a current Lynch muse whose debut solo album was produced by the filmmaker. Bell also appears as FBI agent Tammy Preston in the revival, and she recently released a version of “Falling,” originally recorded by Cruise.

“It was good. I’ve seen her do other things that just blew me away,” Cruise says of Bell. “She’s got a very womanly voice. She’s like a true alto. I’m a mezzo-soprano. I’m surprisingly high.”

Now both share a world created by Lynch. But one fan who didn’t plan on tuning in Sunday was Cruise, who has yet to watch a single episode of “The Return.” She has her reasons. “I won’t watch the show yet. It’s got to be on my terms. I have to watch it in an intimate setting by myself,” she says, explaining that she will watch it as the marathon 18-hour film Lynch has described the new limited series as. “It’s very personal.”

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Singer Julee Cruise, who worked with David Lynch on Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet , dies at 65

Cruise's husband wrote on Facebook that "she left this realm on her own terms."

Julee Cruise, the singer with the etherial voice who worked with director David Lynch on Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet , died Thursday. She was 65.

Cruise's husband, Edward Grinnan, shared the news on Facebook , as first reported by The Guardian .

"For those of you who go back I thought you might want to know that I said goodby to my wife, Julee Cruise, today," he wrote. "She left this realm on her own terms. No regrets. She is at peace."

Cruise divulged on Facebook in 2018 that she had been struggling with systemic lupus erythematosus, the autoimmune disease that causes the immune system to attack its own tissues.

"I can. Hardly walk. And now it's difficult to stand," she wrote at the time, noting "the pain is so bad I cry and snap at people."

Cruise is best known for her collaborations with Lynch. Her song "Falling," the vocal version of Angelo Badalamenti's theme music for the Twin Peaks series, was featured on her debut album Floating Into the Night , released in 1989. Her other big collaboration with Lynch was on his 1986 film Blue Velvet ; the soundtrack featured her song "Mysteries of Love."

Cruise made appearances on Twin Peaks as a singer in the Roadhouse bar, as well as in 1992's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me . The singer later returned for Twin Peaks: The Return in 2017 to perform "The World Spins."

"It's like I'm his little sister: you don't like your older brother telling you what to do," Cruise once told Pitchfork in a 2018 interview. "David's foppish. He can have these tantrums sometimes. And have you ever seen his temper? Anybody can look funny when they get mad. But I love him."

Julee Cruise, Singer Who Worked With David Lynch on ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Blue Velvet,’ Dies at 65

Julee Cruise , whose gorgeous collaborations with David Lynch elevated projects such as “ Blue Velvet ” and “ Twin Peaks ,” has died at 65 years old. Her husband, Edward Grinnant, revealed the news on a B-52’s Facebook page, as first reported by The Guardian . Cruise was an occasional touring member of the band, acting as Cindy Wilson’s stand-in on stretches from 1992 to 1999.

“For those of you who go back I thought you might want to know that I said goodby to my wife, Julee Cruise, today,” he wrote. “She left this realm on her own terms. No regrets. She is at peace. Having had such a varied music career she often said that the time she spent as a B filling in for Cindy while she was having a family was the happiest time of her performing life. She will be forever grateful to them. When she first stepped up to the mic with Fred and Kate she said it was like joining the Beatles. She will love them always and never forget their travels together around the world. I played her Roam during her transition. Now she will roam forever. Rest In Peace, my love, and love to you all.”

Lynch posted a video statement on YouTube on Friday: “I just found out that the great Julee Cruise passed away,” he said, amid long pauses. “Very sad news. So it might be a good time to appreciate all the good music she made, and remember her as being a great musician, great singer and great human being. Julee Cruise!”

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Cruise was best know for her collaborative work with Lynch. Her biggest hit was “Falling,” with music by “Twin Peaks” composer Angelo Badalamenti and lyrics by Lynch. An instrumental version of the song would become the indelible opening theme of “Peaks.” She also appeared on the show several times as a singer at the bar, and her music was included on the show and the soundtrack.

While Cruise’s name wasn’t as ubiquitous as the show’s central figure, Laura Palmer, her voice and enigmatic character on the show lent an eerie musical throughline to the beloved series.

As a recording artist, Cruise released four albums between 1989 and 2011. Her debut, “Floating Into the Night,” included “Falling,” which reached No. 11 on the U.S. Modern Rock chart in 1990.

That same year, Cruise performed the song on “Saturday Night Live,” filling in for Sinéad O’Connor, who backed out last minute in protest of the night’s guest host, Andrew Dice Clay.

Cruise returned to “Twin Peaks” in 2017 for the long-awaited third season of the series, which aired on Showtime (the original two seasons were on ABC). Her appearance included a performance of the song “The World Spins.”

The following year, she released an EP titled “Three Demos,” which features the original demo versions of her best-known work, “Falling,” “Floating” and “The World Spins.”

Cruise’s unique vocal stylings attracted a host of collaborators over the years, including DJ Dmitry and the bands Hybrid and Delerium. She can also be heard on Handsome Boy Modeling School’s song “Class System,” which was produced by Prince Paul and features Pharrell Williams.

Watch Cruise perform “Falling” live below:

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In the Facebook post, Grinnan wrote, “For those of you who go back I thought you might want to know that I said goodby to my wife, Julee Cruise, today. She left this realm on her own terms. No regrets. She is at peace. Having had such a varied music career she often said that the time she spent as a B filling in for Cindy while she was having a family was the happiest time of her performing life. She will be forever grateful to them. When she first stepped up to the mic with Fred [Schneider] and Kate [Pierson] she said it was like joining the Beatles. She will love them always and never forget their travels together around the world. I played her [the B-52s song] ‘Roam’ during her transition. Now she will roam forever. Rest In Peace, my love, and love to you all.”

Despite her stint with the New Wave band from Georgia, Cruise was best known for her collaborations with Lynch, first working with the director on the 1986 feature film Blue Velvet. Recommended by Badalamenti, with whom she had worked in the New York City theater scene, Cruise was recruited by Lynch to sing “Mysteries of Love”, the lovely, vaguely funereal song that ends the film.

Lynch and Badalamenti wrote additional songs for Cruise’s debut album, 1989’s Floating into the Night , and the three reteamed, perhaps most memorably, for Lynch’s groundbreaking and eccentric 1990-92 ABC television series Twin Peaks. Cruise provided the breathy vocals for the series’ songs “Into the Night” and “The Nightingale,” as well as for the soundtrack’s vocal version of the series’ instantly recognizable theme “Falling.”

Cruise made occasional appearances on the series as a local chanteuse, as she did in the 1992 feature film version Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. Other Cruise songs would be used throughout the run of the series. She returned to the Lynchian universe for the 2017 Showtime revival Twin Peaks: The Return , performing the song “The World Spins.”

Following her 1989 debut album Floating into the Night , which included the Twin Peaks theme “Falling,” Cruise would go on to release additional LPs including The Voice of Love (1993), The Art of Being a Girl (2002) and My Secret Life (2011). Over the years, she would collaborate with such musicians as Moby, the Welsh electronic music group Hybrid, former members of Deee-Lite, Pharrell Williams, and Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore, among others.

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Singer Julee Cruise , whose haunting voice made her a favorite of filmmaker David Lynch , has died at 65.

The news was confirmed by her husband, Edward Grinnan on Facebook , per The Guardian . “She left this realm on her own terms. No regrets,” he wrote. “She is at peace.” Grinnan added, “I played her [B-52’s song] ‘Roam’ during her transition. Now she will roam forever. Rest in peace, my love.”

Grinnan later told NPR that Cruise died by suicide after struggling with “lupus, depression and alcohol and drug addiction”; in 2018 Cruise shared on her Facebook page that she was suffering from systemic lupus and was having difficulty walking and standing.

“Deeply saddened by the passing of Julee Cruise today,” actor Kyle MacLachlan, who starred in Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks , wrote on Twitter . “Her angelic voice transported us all to another dimension. Now, she’s floating among the angels. Sending love to her family, friends, and fans today.” David Lynch also paid tribute to the “ great singer, and a great human being .”

Born in Iowa in 1956, Cruise worked with Lynch on several occasions. Her best-known song was “Falling,” released as part of her 1989 debut album Floating Into the Night . The instrumental version of the track, written by Angelo Badalamenti, was used as the theme to Lynch’s iconic 1990 TV series, Twin Peaks . She also appeared as a character on the series, reappearing 2001 spin-off film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and Twin Peaks: The Return , a long-awaited third season of the show that premiered in 2017.

Prior to Twin Peaks , Lynch first utilized Cruise’s music for his 1986 film Blue Velvet , which prominently features her Badalamenti collaboration, “Mysteries of Love.” In 1990, the singer appeared alongside Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern as a character named “The Dreamself of the Heartbroken Woman” in Lynch’s avant-garde theater production, Industrial Symphony No 1.

Cruise worked with other filmmakers, as well. In 1991, she covered Elvis Presley ’s “Summer Kisses, Winter Tears” for the soundtrack of Wim Wenders’ Until the End of the World . Her second album, The Voice of Love , was released in 1993. Her third album, The Art of Being a Girl , didn’t come out until 2002.

Besides her own music, Cruise also performed with other artists. She toured with The B-52’s as Cindy Wilson’s stand-in from 1992 to 1999, and performed with Bobby McFerrin’s improvisational vocal group Voicestra/CircleSong.

In 2004, Cruise provided vocals alongside Pharrell on Handsome Boy Modeling School’s song “Class System.” Cruise’s final album was 2011’s My Secret Life , a collaboration with Deee-lite’s DJ Dmitry.

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In 2018, Cruise released Three Demos, a collection of three recordings Cruise cut with Lynch and Badalamenti between recording the song “Mysteries of Love” for Blue Velvet and her debut album. It included include early versions of “Floating,” “The World Spins,” and “Falling.”

Badalamenti recalled how Lynch impacted the success of Floating Into the Night in a 2014 interview with Rolling Stone . “It was obviously a different sound,” he said of Cruise’s music. “When it came out, radio stations said they had no slots for it. Is it pop? Not really. Is it R&B? Certainly not. What is it? Even the more avant-garde stations found it unusual, so it was difficult getting airplay. But when ‘Falling’ came out as the main title theme of Twin Peaks , that was a whole different story.”

In the same interview, Cruise noted she had heard her influence in the music that has come in the decades since with female singers. “They sing like sexy baby girls,” she said. “They all have their own personality.”

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Julee Cruise Performs Songs From Twin Peaks And Blue Velvet At New York Fashion Week (Video)

Little did the fashion loving audience at Creatures Of The Wind ‘s Spring 2017 runway show know they would leave Manhattan’s Masonic Hall so moved.

“The idea of the collection was strength through vulnerability. There’s a power in sweetness. There’s a power in softness. […] We kept saying, ‘We need somebody like Julee Cruise to perform. And then it was like, ‘Hold on, why don’t we see if we can get her?’” Christopher Peters, one of the two designers behind the label, explained to Vogue .

And they did.

On the second day of New York Fashion Week, the Roadhouse singer took the stage in a custom silver dress for an evocative performance of three songs written for her by Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch : “Rockin’ Back Inside My Heart” and “The World Spins” from Twin Peaks, and Blue Velvet’s “Mysteries Of Love.”

In Julee Cruise’s own words on Facebook:

Creatures of The Wind Fashion Show Was Pure Live Professional Work of Beautiful Theater…Nothing like being a live part of this experience!…..And Those Clothes!!

And here’s the proof in the form of several short videos. You can’t always see Julee in these, but you’ll hear her. That’s what matters.

https://www.facebook.com/nowfashion/videos/10155277182178289/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED