Julee Cruise
b. 1 December 1956, Creston, Iowa, USA. This female vocalist rose to fame in 1990 as the musical star of David Lynch's cult television series, Twin Peaks, gliding above Angelo Badalamenti's music and Lynch's lyrics on the show's memorable theme tune, "Falling". Cruise, who has a degree in French horn from Drake University, had worked with Badalamenti and Lynch before, contributing "Mysteries Of Love' to the soundtrack of 1985"s Blue Velvet. She also appeared in another Lynch/Badalamenti production, Industrial Symphony No. 1, in which she was suspended above an industrial landscape by a web of wires. Her critically-acclaimed debut, Floating Into The Night, was released in late 1989. The album mixed the sense of small town melodrama and macabre embodied by "Falling" with her own, measured vocal identity. Her commentary on it; "it's a very romantic album, but it's realistic. When you're in love with someone you become obsessive, you're slightly mentally ill", was perfectly in keeping with the Lynch ethos. Two other tracks, "Into The Night" and "Rockin' Back Inside My Heart", featured alongside "Falling' on the soundtrack to Twin Peaks (Cruise also played a bit-part in the television series). She teamed up with Badalamenti and Lynch again on her second album, 1993"s The Voice Of Love. Later in the decade she covered the old Elvis Presley song "Summer Kisses, Winter Tears' for Wim Wenders' movie Until The End Of The World, and featured on the soundtrack to Scream. Cruise has also appeared in several stage productions and toured with the B-52"s as a replacement for Cindy Wilson.
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Albums
- (1993) The Voice Of Love
- (1989) Floating Into The Night
Top Tracks
- Falling
- Until The End Of The World
- Questions In A World Of Blue
- This Is Our Night
- In My Other World
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