Julee Cruise
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Julee Cruise is an American singer, and actress.
With a distinctive, airy voice, Cruise has recorded three albums, but is probably best known for the lead vocal on "Falling," the theme song for the cult
U.S. 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 all of her released song
s.
Cruise currently lives in Manhattan
with her husband, Edward Grinnan, the editor-in-chief of Guideposts Magazine and author of the best-selling book The Promise of Hope: How True Stories of Hope and Inspiration Saved My Life. She is in pre-production for her upcoming album featuring New York musicians Jesse Krakow, Clifton Hyde
and Mike Pride
which will be released in 2011.
and performed as a singer and actress in Minneapolis (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, whilst also working as a talent scout for Badalamenti.
'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 Julee Cruise, who had sung "like an angel" in a New York theater workshop that Badalamenti had produced. The result of their initial collaboration was "Mysteries of Love", which figures prominently in Blue Velvets closing scenes.
. The album was released on 12 September 1989 by Warner Bros. Records
, and charted on Billboard the following year. A moody, tightly structured collection of dream pop
songs with lush, idiosyncratic orchestrations and intentionally retro
lyrics, Floating Into the Night became a favorite of such musician
s as Tim Booth
, lead singer
of the band James
, and techno
artist Moby
, who would go on to collaborate with Cruise on the unreleased track "Drown Disco". It also provided musical material for two of Lynch's other projects. The first was Industrial Symphony No. 1
, a dark, intentionally obscure performance piece in which Cruise performed while "floating" from a harness dozens of feet above a stage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
.
for Best Pop Instrumental. The Twin Peaks soundtrack
, featuring Cruise on the songs "Into the Night" and "The Nightingale" as well as on the vocal version of "Falling", eventually going gold (500,000+ copies) in the US, a rare feat for a television soundtrack. Cruise made a number of appearances on Twin Peaks as a singer at a local bar, and was prominently featured in both the show's landmark pilot episode and the episode where Laura Palmer's murderer is revealed, as well as in 1992's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. The campy but unsettling "Rockin' Back Inside My Heart", the second single from Floating Into the Night, was released in 1990 and was also featured in an episode of Twin Peaks.
Cruise re-interpreted and sang the theme song for an episode of the USA Network show "Psych". The episode, "Dual Spires" (s05/ep12 12/01/2010) was about a secluded town full of secrets and skeletons were they investigate the murder of a girl. It aired 20 years to the day after Laura Palmer's murder was revealed.
on May 12, 1990, when scheduled performer Sinéad O'Connor
refused to appear on the same show as guest host Andrew Dice Clay
.
song "Summer Kisses, Winter Tears" for the soundtrack of Wim Wenders
's Until the End of the World
. Afterwards, Cruise maintained a relatively low profile until her second album, The Voice of Love
, was released in 1993. To many listeners and reviewers, this album suffered in comparison to its predecessor, possibly due to the numerous other projects competing for Lynch and Badalamenti's attention. Many of the tracks were little more than instrumentals from Wild at Heart
or Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me with added vocals. However, several songs, notably "Questions in a World of Blue", are ranked by fans among Cruise's best.
's character, in Blue Velvet. Lynch also photographed Cruise for the liner notes of Floating Into the Night and The Voice of Love, and created the sculptures featured on the covers of both albums. The trio also produced a memorable cover of the minor Elvis Presley hit "Summer Kisses, Winter Tears" for the celebrated soundtrack to Wim Wenders' 1992 film, "Until the End of the World." It remains one of Cruise's most popular and arresting recordings.
, was released in 2002. This was the first of her albums for which Badalamenti and Lynch did not produce or write any of the music, with music and lyrics for each of the songs being written by Cruise herself (with the exception of an updated version of her classic single "Falling") and guest produced by Rick Strom and Mocean Worker
.
, a spoof of William Shakespeare's
The Tempest, and toured with The B-52's
as Cindy Wilson
's replacement on and off from 1992 through 2000. She also performed regularly with Bobby McFerrin
's improvisational vocal group Voicestra/CircleSong.
She appeared as Andy Warhol
(among other characters, including Susan Sontag
) in the 2004 Keith Haring
bio-musical Radiant Baby (musical) at the Public Theatre/New York Shakespeare Festival
, directed by George C. Wolfe
.
.
She provided vocals and lyrics to several of the songs on Wide Angle
(1999), the debut album by Welsh
electronic music
group Hybrid, notably the epic nuskool breaks track "If I Survive". Also in 1999, she performs on two songs on Don't Panic! by DJ Silver, ""Sweet Dreams" and "I'm Your Girl".
She appeared on the albums 1-900-Get-Khan (1999) and No Comprendo (2001) by dance artist Khan (Can Oral), and also performed live several times with him. The lyrics for many of these songs, such as "Body Dump", reflect Cruise's own interest in true crime
.
She was featured in 2 songs on Supa DJ Dmitry's (formerly of Deee-Lite
) album Scream Of Consciousness (2000), "Don't Talk Me Down" (originally issued on TVT 7311-0 12") and a cover of David Bowie
's "Space Oddity".
She appears on a number of tracks on both the 2003 album Dreams Top Rock and the 2007 album Monstrous Surplus by German post-rock
act, Pluramon.
More recently, Cruise has appeared as a guest vocalist on Sarcast While, the 2006 full-length album
from the New York band
, Time of Orchids
, released on Tzadik Records
. Her vocals also appear on five tracks on Kenneth Bager
's 2006 album Fragments From A Space Cadet
.
Cruise provides the vocals for Delerium
's "Magic" song (on the Chimera album). Cruise also provided vocals alongside Pharrell on Handsome Boy Modeling School
's song "Class System".
Cruise has recorded an interpretation of the theme song for "Psych" on USA (12/2010).
's "Wired for Sound" with B(if)tek
, R.E.M.
's "It's The End of the World (and I Feel Fine)" with Eric Kupper
, Eurythmics
's "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)" with DJ Silver, and David Bowie
's "Space Oddity" with Supa DJ Dmitry.
In 1996, Cruise with The Flow appeared on the Scream
soundtrack with the song "Artificial World (Interdimensional Mix)".
In 2001, Cruise contributed two exclusive tracks to the "Nutcracker: An American Nightmare" soundtrack CD Maxi-single, "In Your World Of Blue" and "Never Let You Go".
In 2003, Depeche Mode
songwriter Martin Gore
included a cover version of Cruise's song "In My Other World" (from her 1993 album The Voice of Love) on Counterfeit²
, the second in his series of cover albums dedicated to his own musical influences and atmospheric inspirations.
In 2003, Cruise's song "The World Spins" was featured in an extended ballet sequence in Robert Altman
's The Company.
Cruise's song "Floating" was featured in TV advertisements and trailers for the show The Riches
debuting on FX Networks
in March 2007. The next year her music was used in CSI Miami and most recently in an upcoming episode of "Psych."
In 2009, her digital-only album "My Secret Life" with collaborator DJ Dmitry contained a cover of Donovan
's "Season Of The Witch" and a cover (technically) of Hybrid's "Fatal Beating" called "A Fatal Beating".
With a distinctive, airy voice, Cruise has recorded three albums, but is probably best known for the lead vocal on "Falling," the theme song for the cult
Cult following
A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to a specific area of pop culture. A film, book, band, or video game, among other things, will be said to have a cult following when it has a small but very passionate fan base...
U.S. television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
series Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks is an American television serial drama created by David Lynch and Mark Frost. The series follows the investigation headed by FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper , of the murder of a popular teenager and homecoming queen, Laura Palmer...
. During the late 1980s
1980s
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and early 1990s
1990s
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, she collaborated with composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
Angelo Badalamenti
Angelo Badalamenti
Angelo Badalamenti is an American composer, known for his movie soundtrack work for director David Lynch, notably Blue Velvet, the Twin Peaks saga and Mulholland Drive...
and film director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
David Lynch
David Lynch
David Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed "Lynchian", and which is characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound...
, who produced
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
and wrote
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
the lyrics
Lyrics
Lyrics are a set of words that make up a song. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist or lyrist. The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit. Some lyrics are abstract, almost unintelligible, and, in such cases, their explication emphasizes form, articulation, meter, and symmetry of...
for all of her released song
Song
In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...
s.
Cruise currently lives in Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
with her husband, Edward Grinnan, the editor-in-chief of Guideposts Magazine and author of the best-selling book The Promise of Hope: How True Stories of Hope and Inspiration Saved My Life. She is in pre-production for her upcoming album featuring New York musicians Jesse Krakow, Clifton Hyde
Clifton Hyde
Clifton Hyde is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer currently working from and residing in New York City....
and Mike Pride
Mike Pride (musician)
Based in New York for the past decade, Mike Pridehttp://www.mikepride.com currently leads the quartet, From Bacteria To Boys, who record for AUM Fidelity Records. Pride is renowned worldwide for his ability to excel in a wide range of genres and ensembles...
which will be released in 2011.
Early life and career
Julee Cruise studied French horn at Drake UniversityDrake University
Drake University is a private, co-educational university located in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. The institution offers a number of undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as professional programs in law and pharmacy. Today, Drake is one of the twenty-five oldest law schools in the country....
and performed as a singer and actress in Minneapolis (notably in the role of Jinjur
Jinjur
Jinjur is the main antagonist of The Marvelous Land of Oz. She is a character in the Oz books by L. Frank Baum and his successors. She first appears in The Marvelous Land of Oz as a self-appointed general leading an "Army of Revolt"—an all-woman force seeking to end the reign of the Scarecrow and...
in stage adaptations of L. Frank Baum
L. Frank Baum
Lyman Frank Baum was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz...
's Oz
The Oz books
The Oz books form a book series that begins with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , and that relates the fictional history of the Land of Oz. Oz was created by author L. Frank Baum, who went on to write fourteen full-length Oz books, all of which are in the public domain in the United States...
books). She moved to New York and played Janis Joplin in a revue
Revue
A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance and sketches. The revue has its roots in 19th century American popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from 1916 to 1932...
called Beehive, whilst also working as a talent scout for Badalamenti.
Blue Velvet
In 1985, Badalamenti was composing the score for David LynchDavid Lynch
David Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed "Lynchian", and which is characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound...
's Blue Velvet, as well as serving as the vocal coach for the film's star, Isabella Rossellini
Isabella Rossellini
Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini is an Italian actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and model. Rossellini is noted for her 14-year tenure as a Lancôme model, and for her roles in films such as Blue Velvet and Death Becomes Her.-Background and early life:Rossellini is a...
. A key scene in Blue Velvet was intended to feature This Mortal Coil
This Mortal Coil
This Mortal Coil was a gothic dream pop supergroup led by Ivo Watts-Russell, founder of the British record label 4AD. Although Watts-Russell and John Fryer were technically the only two official members, the band's recorded output featured a large rotating cast of supporting artists, many of whom...
's version of Song to the Siren
Song to the Siren (Tim Buckley song)
"Song to the Siren" is a song written by Tim Buckley and his writing partner Larry Beckett and was first released on Buckley's 1970 album Starsailor...
by Tim Buckley
Tim Buckley
Timothy Charles Buckley III was an American vocalist, and musician. His music and style changed considerably through the years; his first album was mostly folk oriented, but over time his music incorporated jazz, psychedelia, funk, soul, avant-garde and an evolving "voice as instrument," sound...
, 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 Julee Cruise, who had sung "like an angel" in a New York theater workshop that Badalamenti had produced. The result of their initial collaboration was "Mysteries of Love", which figures prominently in Blue Velvets closing scenes.
Floating Into The Night
Positive reaction to "Mysteries of Love" led Badalamenti and Lynch to write and produce additional songs for Cruise, most of which were featured in her debut album, Floating Into the NightFloating into the Night
Floating into the Night is the debut album by dream pop artist Julee Cruise, released in 1989. The album was produced and all songs were written by film director, David Lynch, and composer, Angelo Badalamenti. Lynch wrote the lyrics to Badalamenti's music...
. The album was released on 12 September 1989 by Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label. It was the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group, and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. It maintains a close relationship with its former parent, Warner Bros. Pictures, although the two companies...
, and charted on Billboard the following year. A moody, tightly structured collection of dream pop
Dream pop
Dream pop is a subgenre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom in the mid-1980s, when bands like The Passions, Dif Juz, Lowlife and A.R. Kane began fusing post-punk and ethereal experiments with bittersweet pop melodies into dreamy, sensual soundscapes. The term was almost...
songs with lush, idiosyncratic orchestrations and intentionally retro
Retro
Retro is a culturally outdated or aged style, trend, mode, or fashion, from the overall postmodern past, that has since that time become functionally or superficially the norm once again. The use of "retro" style iconography and imagery interjected into post-modern art, advertising, mass media, etc...
lyrics, Floating Into the Night became a favorite of such musician
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
s as Tim Booth
Tim Booth
Timothy John Booth is an English singer, dancer, and actor best known as the lead singer from the band James.-1980s:Booth was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England and attended Shrewsbury School...
, lead singer
Lead vocalist
The lead vocalist is the member of a band who sings the main vocal portions of a song. They may also play one or more instruments. Lead vocalists are sometimes referred to as the frontman or frontwoman, and as such, are usually considered to be the "leader" of the groups they perform in, often the...
of the band James
James (band)
James are a British rock band from Manchester, England. They formed in 1982 and were active throughout the 1980s, but most successful during the 1990s. Their hit singles include "Come Home", "Sit Down", and "She's a Star" as well as their American College Radio hit "Laid"...
, and techno
Techno
Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan in the United States during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988...
artist Moby
Moby
Richard Melville Hall , better known by his stage name Moby, is an American musician, DJ, and photographer. He is known mainly for his sample-based electronic music and his outspoken liberal political views, including his support of veganism and animal rights.Moby gained attention in the early...
, who would go on to collaborate with Cruise on the unreleased track "Drown Disco". It also provided musical material for two of Lynch's other projects. The first was Industrial Symphony No. 1
Industrial Symphony No. 1
Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Broken Hearted is a short, avant-garde musical play directed by David Lynch, with music by Angelo Badalamenti and Julee Cruise.-Overview:...
, a dark, intentionally obscure performance piece in which Cruise performed while "floating" from a harness dozens of feet above a stage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Brooklyn Academy of Music is a major performing arts venue in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City, United States, known as a center for progressive and avant garde performance....
.
Twin Peaks
The second, more significant project was the soundtrack to Lynch's Twin Peaks, for which Badalamenti composed the original score. The song "Falling", which became the orchestral theme for the television series, caused a minor sensation, winning a Grammy at the 33rd Grammy AwardsGrammy Awards of 1991
The 33rd Grammy Awards were held on February 20, 1991. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year. Quincy Jones was the night's big winner winning a total of six awards including Album of the Year.-Award winners:*Record of the Year...
for Best Pop Instrumental. The Twin Peaks soundtrack
Soundtrack
A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...
, featuring Cruise on the songs "Into the Night" and "The Nightingale" as well as on the vocal version of "Falling", eventually going gold (500,000+ copies) in the US, a rare feat for a television soundtrack. Cruise made a number of appearances on Twin Peaks as a singer at a local bar, and was prominently featured in both the show's landmark pilot episode and the episode where Laura Palmer's murderer is revealed, as well as in 1992's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. The campy but unsettling "Rockin' Back Inside My Heart", the second single from Floating Into the Night, was released in 1990 and was also featured in an episode of Twin Peaks.
Cruise re-interpreted and sang the theme song for an episode of the USA Network show "Psych". The episode, "Dual Spires" (s05/ep12 12/01/2010) was about a secluded town full of secrets and skeletons were they investigate the murder of a girl. It aired 20 years to the day after Laura Palmer's murder was revealed.
Saturday Night Live performance
Cruise made a controversial appearance on Saturday Night LiveSaturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...
on May 12, 1990, when scheduled performer Sinéad O'Connor
Sinéad O'Connor
Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor is an Irish singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra and achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a cover of the song "Nothing Compares 2 U"....
refused to appear on the same show as guest host Andrew Dice Clay
Andrew Dice Clay
Andrew Dice Clay is an American comedian and actor who played the lead role in the film The Adventures of Ford Fairlane.Clay has been in several movies and has released a number of stand-up albums...
.
The Voice of Love
The following year, Cruise recorded a Lynch and Badalamenti produced cover of the Elvis PresleyElvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
song "Summer Kisses, Winter Tears" for the soundtrack of Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders
Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer.-Early life:Wenders was born in Düsseldorf. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine and philosophy in Freiburg and Düsseldorf...
's Until the End of the World
Until the End of the World
Until the End of the World is a 1991 film by the German film director Wim Wenders; the screenplay was written by Wenders and Peter Carey, from a story by Wenders and Solveig Dommartin. An initial draft of the screenplay was written by American filmmaker Michael Almereyda...
. Afterwards, Cruise maintained a relatively low profile until her second album, The Voice of Love
The Voice of Love
The Voice of Love is the second album by dream pop artist Julee Cruise released in 1993."Up in Flames" appears previously in the 1990 David Lynch production, Industrial Symphony No. 1.-Track listing:-Personnel:...
, was released in 1993. To many listeners and reviewers, this album suffered in comparison to its predecessor, possibly due to the numerous other projects competing for Lynch and Badalamenti's attention. Many of the tracks were little more than instrumentals from Wild at Heart
Wild at Heart (film)
Wild at Heart is a 1990 American film written and directed by David Lynch, and based on Barry Gifford's 1989 novel Wild at Heart: The Story of Sailor and Lula. Both the book and the film revolve around Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune , a young couple from Cape Fear, North Carolina who go on...
or Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me with added vocals. However, several songs, notably "Questions in a World of Blue", are ranked by fans among Cruise's best.
Other information
Cruise's early collaborations with Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch were closely related to Lynch's film work, and their lyrics often reflect this. For example, "Into the Night" begins with the whispered words "Now it's dark", a line which was repeatedly spoken by Frank Booth, Dennis HopperDennis Hopper
Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors' Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1954 and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant...
's character, in Blue Velvet. Lynch also photographed Cruise for the liner notes of Floating Into the Night and The Voice of Love, and created the sculptures featured on the covers of both albums. The trio also produced a memorable cover of the minor Elvis Presley hit "Summer Kisses, Winter Tears" for the celebrated soundtrack to Wim Wenders' 1992 film, "Until the End of the World." It remains one of Cruise's most popular and arresting recordings.
The Art of Being a Girl
Cruise's long-delayed third album, The Art of Being a GirlThe Art of Being a Girl
The Art of Being a Girl is the third album by Julee Cruise and was released in 2003. Released ten years after her previous album, Cruise departs from the dream pop-laden sound of her first two releases for a more jazz and electronica sound....
, was released in 2002. This was the first of her albums for which Badalamenti and Lynch did not produce or write any of the music, with music and lyrics for each of the songs being written by Cruise herself (with the exception of an updated version of her classic single "Falling") and guest produced by Rick Strom and Mocean Worker
Mocean Worker
-Background:Philadelphia native Adam Dorn is the son of famous jazz and R'n'B producer Joel Dorn. He grew up around the jazz and R&B discs his father produced for Atlantic Records in the '60s and '70s. As a 15-year-old, he sent a fan letter to bassist Marcus Miller...
.
Acting and live work
Cruise also acted and sang in the off Broadway cast of Return to the Forbidden PlanetReturn to the Forbidden Planet
Return to the Forbidden Planet is a Jukebox musical by playwright Bob Carlton based on Shakespeare's The Tempest and the 1950s science fiction film Forbidden Planet ....
, a spoof of William Shakespeare's
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
The Tempest, and toured with The B-52's
The B-52's
The B-52's are an American rock band, formed in Athens, Georgia in 1976. The original line-up consisted of Fred Schneider , Kate Pierson , Cindy Wilson , Ricky Wilson , and Keith Strickland . Following Ricky Wilson's death in 1985 Strickland switched to guitar...
as Cindy Wilson
Cindy Wilson
Cynthia Leigh Wilson is a vocalist and a founding member of new wave rock band The B-52s.- Career :...
's replacement on and off from 1992 through 2000. She also performed regularly with Bobby McFerrin
Bobby McFerrin
Robert "Bobby" McFerrin, Jr. is an American vocalist and conductor. He is best known for his 1988 hit song "Don't Worry, Be Happy". He is a ten-time Grammy Award winner.-Life:...
's improvisational vocal group Voicestra/CircleSong.
She appeared as Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
Andrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...
(among other characters, including Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag was an American author, literary theorist, feminist and political activist whose works include On Photography and Against Interpretation.-Life:...
) in the 2004 Keith Haring
Keith Haring
Keith Haring was an artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s.-Early life:...
bio-musical Radiant Baby (musical) at the Public Theatre/New York Shakespeare Festival
New York Shakespeare Festival
New York Shakespeare Festival is the previous name of the New York City theatrical producing organization now known as the Public Theater. The Festival produced shows at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, as part of its free Shakespeare in the Park series, at the Public Theatre near Astor Place...
, directed by George C. Wolfe
George C. Wolfe
George Costello Wolfe is an American playwright and director of theater and film. He won a Tony Award in 1993 for directing Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and another Tony Award in 1996 for his direction of the musical, Bring in 'da Noise/Bring in 'da Funk.-Early life and...
.
Guest vocals
Cruise has also lent her vocals to works by a miscellaneous list of collaborators, mostly in Electronic musicElectronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
.
She provided vocals and lyrics to several of the songs on Wide Angle
Wide Angle
Wide Angle is the debut studio album by British breakbeat trance producers Hybrid, and was re-released in 2000 as a double-CD edition entitled Wider Angle...
(1999), the debut album by Welsh
Welsh people
The Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...
electronic music
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
group Hybrid, notably the epic nuskool breaks track "If I Survive". Also in 1999, she performs on two songs on Don't Panic! by DJ Silver, ""Sweet Dreams" and "I'm Your Girl".
She appeared on the albums 1-900-Get-Khan (1999) and No Comprendo (2001) by dance artist Khan (Can Oral), and also performed live several times with him. The lyrics for many of these songs, such as "Body Dump", reflect Cruise's own interest in true crime
True crime (genre)
True crime is a non-fiction literary and film genre in which the author examines an actual crime and details the actions of real people.The crimes most commonly include murder, but true crime works have also touched on other legal cases. Depending on the writer, true crime can adhere strictly to...
.
She was featured in 2 songs on Supa DJ Dmitry's (formerly of Deee-Lite
Deee-Lite
Deee-Lite was an American house and club/dance group, formed in New York City, United States. The group's best-known single was "Groove Is in the Heart", from their 1990 debut album, World Clique. However, Deee-Lite achieved longer lasting success on the U.S...
) album Scream Of Consciousness (2000), "Don't Talk Me Down" (originally issued on TVT 7311-0 12") and a cover of David Bowie
David Bowie
David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...
's "Space Oddity".
She appears on a number of tracks on both the 2003 album Dreams Top Rock and the 2007 album Monstrous Surplus by German post-rock
Post-rock
Post-rock is a subgenre of rock music characterized by the influence and use of instruments commonly associated with rock, but using rhythms and "guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures" not traditionally found in rock...
act, Pluramon.
More recently, Cruise has appeared as a guest vocalist on Sarcast While, the 2006 full-length album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
from the New York band
Band (music)
In music, a musical ensemble or band is a group of musicians that works together to perform music. The following articles concern types of musical bands:* All-female band* Big band* Boy band* Christian band* Church band* Concert band* Cover band...
, Time of Orchids
Time Of Orchids
Time of Orchids was a NYC-based avant rock band founded in 1999.Two of the band's albums feature renowned female vocalists. Kate Pierson performs on "Much Too Much Fun" while Julee Cruise of Twin Peaks fame sings on "Sarcast While"....
, released on Tzadik Records
Tzadik Records
Tzadik Records is a record label based in New York City specialising in avant-garde and experimental music. The label was established by the eclectic composer and saxophonist John Zorn in 1995; Zorn is the executive producer of all Tzadik releases...
. Her vocals also appear on five tracks on Kenneth Bager
Kenneth Bager
Kenneth Bager is a Danish musician and record producer.- History :Kenneth started his musical career back in the mid 1980s as a DJ. In 1994, Bager released a compilation called "Music for Dreams" featuring, among others, Peter Gabriel and Michael Nyman...
's 2006 album Fragments From A Space Cadet
Fragments From A Space Cadet
Fragments From A Space Cadet is the debut album by Kenneth Bager for which he received the Statens Kunstfond's award. It was released on May 24, 2006.- Track listing :#"Fragment Six" ft. Camilla Munck...
.
Cruise provides the vocals for Delerium
Delerium
Delerium is a band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, formed in 1987, originally as a side project of the influential industrial music act, Front Line Assembly...
's "Magic" song (on the Chimera album). Cruise also provided vocals alongside Pharrell on Handsome Boy Modeling School
Handsome Boy Modeling School
Handsome Boy Modeling School was a collaborative project between renowned hip hop producers Dan the Automator and Prince Paul...
's song "Class System".
Cruise has recorded an interpretation of the theme song for "Psych" on USA (12/2010).
Cover versions, film soundtracks and adverts
Cruise has recorded several memorable covers over the years, including Sir Cliff RichardCliff Richard
Sir Cliff Richard, OBE is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor, and philanthropist who has sold over an estimated 250 million records worldwide....
's "Wired for Sound" with B(if)tek
B(if)tek
Btek was an Australian electronic music duo comprising Kate Crawford and Nicole Skeltys, originally from Canberra, who released three albums between 1998 and 2003. In 1999, Btek was nominated for an ARIA as "Best Dance Release" for the track "Bedrock" which appeared on their second album 2020...
, R.E.M.
R.E.M.
R.E.M. was an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry. One of the first popular alternative rock bands, R.E.M. gained early attention due to Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style and Stipe's...
's "It's The End of the World (and I Feel Fine)" with Eric Kupper
Eric Kupper
Eric Kupper is an American keyboardist, arranger, songwriter, remix artist, DJ and record producer of French descent. Playing in bands in his formative years, he got his real start in the mid-1980s working as a keyboardist, guitarist, and songwriter for such producer/remixers as David Morales,...
, Eurythmics
Eurythmics
Eurythmics were a British pop rock duo, formed in 1980, currently disbanded, but known to reunite from time to time. Consisting of members Annie Lennox and David A...
's "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)" with DJ Silver, and David Bowie
David Bowie
David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...
's "Space Oddity" with Supa DJ Dmitry.
In 1996, Cruise with The Flow appeared on the Scream
Scream (film series)
Scream is a series of American horror slasher films created by Kevin Williamson and Wes Craven. The films star Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, and David Arquette. The series has grossed over $600 million in worldwide box-office receipts and consists, to date, of four motion pictures...
soundtrack with the song "Artificial World (Interdimensional Mix)".
In 2001, Cruise contributed two exclusive tracks to the "Nutcracker: An American Nightmare" soundtrack CD Maxi-single, "In Your World Of Blue" and "Never Let You Go".
In 2003, Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex. The group's original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andy Fletcher and Vince Clarke...
songwriter Martin Gore
Martin Gore
Martin Lee Gore is an English songwriter, lyricist, singer, guitarist, keyboardist, remixer and DJ. He is a founding member of Depeche Mode and has written the vast majority of their songs...
included a cover version of Cruise's song "In My Other World" (from her 1993 album The Voice of Love) on Counterfeit²
Counterfeit²
Counterfeit² is the first solo LP by Martin Gore, the primary songwriter for the band Depeche Mode, and his second release ....
, the second in his series of cover albums dedicated to his own musical influences and atmospheric inspirations.
In 2003, Cruise's song "The World Spins" was featured in an extended ballet sequence in Robert Altman
Robert Altman
Robert Bernard Altman was an American film director and screenwriter known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his body of work with an Academy Honorary Award.His films MASH , McCabe and...
's The Company.
Cruise's song "Floating" was featured in TV advertisements and trailers for the show The Riches
The Riches
The Riches is an FX television series, which originally ran from March 15, 2007 to April 29, 2008, and starred Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver.-History:...
debuting on FX Networks
FX Networks
FX is the name of a number of related pay television channels owned by News Corporation's Fox Entertainment Group...
in March 2007. The next year her music was used in CSI Miami and most recently in an upcoming episode of "Psych."
In 2009, her digital-only album "My Secret Life" with collaborator DJ Dmitry contained a cover of Donovan
Donovan
Donovan Donovan Donovan (born Donovan Philips Leitch (born 10 May 1946) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelia, and world music...
's "Season Of The Witch" and a cover (technically) of Hybrid's "Fatal Beating" called "A Fatal Beating".
Albums
- Floating into the NightFloating into the NightFloating into the Night is the debut album by dream pop artist Julee Cruise, released in 1989. The album was produced and all songs were written by film director, David Lynch, and composer, Angelo Badalamenti. Lynch wrote the lyrics to Badalamenti's music...
(1989) - The Voice of LoveThe Voice of LoveThe Voice of Love is the second album by dream pop artist Julee Cruise released in 1993."Up in Flames" appears previously in the 1990 David Lynch production, Industrial Symphony No. 1.-Track listing:-Personnel:...
(1993) - The Art of Being a GirlThe Art of Being a GirlThe Art of Being a Girl is the third album by Julee Cruise and was released in 2003. Released ten years after her previous album, Cruise departs from the dream pop-laden sound of her first two releases for a more jazz and electronica sound....
(2002) - My Secret Life (2009, with DJ Dmitry)
Singles
| Year | Title | Chart positions | Album | ||||
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| US Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
US Modern Rock | US Mainstream Rock | UK UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
AUS ARIA Chart | |||
| 1990 | "Falling" | - | 11 | - | 7 | 1 | Floating into the Night Floating into the Night Floating into the Night is the debut album by dream pop artist Julee Cruise, released in 1989. The album was produced and all songs were written by film director, David Lynch, and composer, Angelo Badalamenti. Lynch wrote the lyrics to Badalamenti's music... |
| 1991 | "Rockin' Back Inside My Heart Rockin' Back Inside My Heart "Rockin' Back Inside My Heart" is the second single released from Julee Cruise's 1989 debut album Floating into the Night. David Lynch wrote the lyrics for the song and Angelo Badalamenti composed the music.... " |
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| "Summer Kisses, Winter Tears" | - | - | - | - | - | Until the End of the World (soundtrack) Until the End of the World (soundtrack) Until the End of the World is a soundtrack album to the film of the same name, released in 1991 on Warner Bros. Records. One song on the album—U2's "Until the End of the World", had been previously released on that band's 1991 album Achtung Baby—all of the other songs were original contributions,... |
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| 1993 | "Movin' In on You" | - | - | - | - | - | The Voice of Love The Voice of Love The Voice of Love is the second album by dream pop artist Julee Cruise released in 1993."Up in Flames" appears previously in the 1990 David Lynch production, Industrial Symphony No. 1.-Track listing:-Personnel:... |
| 1999 | "If I Survive" (with Hybrid) | - | - | - | 52 | - | Wide Angle Wide Angle Wide Angle is the debut studio album by British breakbeat trance producers Hybrid, and was re-released in 2000 as a double-CD edition entitled Wider Angle... |
Collaborations
- Khan (single, "Say Goodbye")
- Hybrid
- Angelo Badalamenti (Twin Peaks soundtrack)
- Moby
- The B-52's
- Mocean Worker
- David LynchDavid LynchDavid Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed "Lynchian", and which is characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound...
- B(if)tek
- Bobby McFerrin
- Kenneth Bager
- Ror Shak
- DeleriumDeleriumDelerium is a band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, formed in 1987, originally as a side project of the influential industrial music act, Front Line Assembly...
- "Class System" w/ Handsome Boy Modeling SchoolHandsome Boy Modeling SchoolHandsome Boy Modeling School was a collaborative project between renowned hip hop producers Dan the Automator and Prince Paul...
(Prince Paul & Dan The Automator)- White PeopleWhite PeopleWhite People is the second and final album by Handsome Boy Modeling School.-Track listing:# "Intro" – 1:08# "If It Wasn't For You" – 4:37...
(2004)