Biography

Ramona Gonzalez began as Nite Jewel in 2008 as the result of her juggling music with undergraduate studies. With assistance from her husband, Cole M. Greif-Neill

Cole M. Greif-Neill

Cole M. Greif-Neill is an Los Angeles-based producer, engineer and musician.He was a student at New York University. In January 2006, he married Ramona Gonzalez of Nite Jewel.He plays with Ariel Pink and Nite Jewel.- Production and songwriting credits :...

, she created songs on a portable eight-track cassette recorder. She stated that "moments of ecstasy, emotion, and hardship" were her inspiration for those recordings.


Soon after starting her MySpace

MySpace

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 music page, her song, "Suburbia" was selected to be in Ben Stiller’s movie Greenberg

Greenberg (film)

Greenberg is a 2010 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Noah Baumbach. The film stars Ben Stiller, Greta Gerwig, Rhys Ifans and Jennifer Jason Leigh...

. Within a year she was touring European festivals.
Her music draws comparison to Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam

Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam

Lisa Lisa and her band Cult Jam were an urban contemporary band and one of first freestyle music groups to emerge from New York City in the 1980s. Cult Jam consisted of guitarist/bassist Alex "Spanador" Moseley, and drummer/keyboardist Mike Hughes...

. Nite Jewel describes herself more as "liquid cool" citing English electronic music duo Autechre

Autechre

Autechre are an English electronic music duo consisting of Rob Brown and Sean Booth, both natives of Rochdale, Greater Manchester. Formed in 1987, they are one of the most prominent acts signed to Warp Records, a label known for its pioneering electronic music and through which all Autechre albums...

 as a major musical influence.


Ramona Gonzalez has a bachelor degree in philosophy from Occidental College

Occidental College

Occidental College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1887, Occidental College, or "Oxy" as it is called by students and alumni, is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges on the West Coast...

. She is also a multimedia artist and has exhibited a number of video and sound installation pieces in the L.A area, one of which was entitled The Question Concerning Technology.


December 6, 2011, Nite Jewel is set to release her single, "She's Always Watching You".

Discography

• It Goes Through Your Head (Vinyl - 2011)
• Am I Real? (EP - 2010)
• Want You Back (EP - 2009)
• Good Evening (EP - 2009)

Collaborations

• Nite Jewelia - collaboration between Nite Jewel and Julia Holter
• "Am I Gonna Make It" - Nite Funk (collaboration between Nite Jewel and Dâm-Funk
  Dâm-Funk
  Dâm-Funk is an American Modern Funk singer, DJ and producer from Pasadena, California. In 2009 he debuted his five LPs of new material, which were edited and released on two discs as Toeachizown late in the year on Stones Throw Records...
  
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• Heart Shaped Rock EP - Jason Grier w/Nite Jewel