Julee Cruise

Julee Cruise ( born December 1, 1956 in Creston, Iowa, USA) is an American singer.

She became famous through collaboration with David Lynch as a singer for several songs in his films. For copyright reasons, Lynch could not use it in his 1986 film Blue Velvet the song Song to the Siren by Tim Buckley, why he wrote with Angelo Badalamenti, who was responsible for the melody, its own song ( Mysteries of Love ). The singer for this song was then Julee Cruise with her so characteristic spherical and slow "breath singing " ( Seeßlen ).

Between 1990 and 1992 she was several times as a nightclub singer in the series Twin Peaks and then in the film Twin Peaks - to see the film in which they the songs "Falling ," "The Nightingale ," " Into the Night ," " Rockin ' Back Inside My Heart ", " The World spins " and " Questions in a World of Blue " sang. In 1989, her album released "Floating into the Night", whose songs exception of David Lynch ( lyrics ) and Angelo Badalamenti (Melody ) were obtained, both of which occurred here as producers in appearance. She then continued her work with the two continued, and so was born in 1993 "The Voice of Love". Both albums contain numerous Twin Peaks songs. In 1990, she also appeared with some of their songs in Lynch's television production Industrial Symphony No.. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted to.

After this second album, it was a dispute between Cruise and Badalamenti / Lynch - Cruise no longer wanted to sing, but also take notes on the songs themselves. For seven years, the parties no longer talked to each other, since you have reconciled again, but never released an additional album.

In 1993 Julee Cruise for a tour of America and Europe with The B -52's the place of Cindy Wilson, which had left the group. Appeared in 2002 with "The Art of Being a Girl" after a long time a studio album of Cruise - this time without the help of Badalamenti and Lynch.

For a consequence of the U.S. television series Psych reinterpreted and sang the theme song Cruise. In the episode " Dual Spires " ( Season 5, Episode 12 ), a tribute to the TV series Twin Peaks by David Lynch and Mark Frost, in a small town full of secrets lying deposited the murder of a young girl is being investigated. The sequence in which numerous original cast members from " Twin Peaks" occurred, was broadcast on 1 December 2010, exactly 20 years after the identity of Laura Palmer's killer was revealed.

The most important works

• Mysteries of Love ( 1986), from the soundtrack to the film Blue Velvet
• Falling (1989 ), single and title theme from Twin Peaks
• Floating into the Night ( 1989)
• Rockin 'Back Inside My Heart (1989/1991), single
• Summer Kisses, Winter Tears (1991 ), an Elvis Presley song, from the soundtrack to Wim Wenders' film Until the End of the World
• Questions in a World of Blue ( 1992), from the soundtrack to the film Twin Peaks - The Movie
• The Voice of Love ( 1993)
• The Art of Being a Girl (2002)
• Dreams Top Skirt ( 2003), collaboration with the electro - noise project Pluramon (Marcus Schmickler )