Julee Cruise

Julie Cruise, who worked with David Lynch on music for "Twin Peaks" and "Blue Velvet," has died at 65. Her husband confirmed the news.

Now she will roam forever. 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. 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. She will be forever grateful to them. Julee Cruise, whose gorgeous collaborations with David Lynch elevated projects such as “ Blue Velvet” and “ Twin Peaks,” has died at 65 years old. “She left this realm on her own terms.

Cruise contributed gorgeous, ethereal pop arias to the films and TV series of David Lynch, from "Twin Peaks" to "Blue Velvet."

Her album “The Voice of Love” in 1993 featured three songs from “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me,” and Cruise went on to release “The Art of Being a Girl” in 2002 and “My Secret Life” in 2011. She also covered Elvis Presley’s “Summer Kisses, Winter Tears” for the soundtrack to Wim Wenders’ “Until the End of the World.” He can have these tantrums sometimes.

Julee Cruise, who ethereal singing could conjure both nostalgic innocence and a menacing present, making her an ideal musical collaborator for David Lynch ...

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. 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. Her death was announced on Facebook by husband, the author and editor Edward Grinnan. A cause of death was not disclosed, but Grinnan wrote, “She left this realm on her own terms. 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. She will be forever grateful to them. She is at peace.” Cruise disclosed in 2018 that she suffered from systemic lupus.

Star was best known for her collaborations with David Lynch.

She also appeared in the 1992 spin-off movie Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me and the 2017 revival on Showtime. “She is at peace. The news of Cruise’s death was confirmed by her husband, Edward Grinnan, in a Facebook post, per The Guardian. “She left this realm on her own terms.

Julee Cruise, the singer and musician who collaborated with director David Lynch and composer Angelo Badalamenti on 'Twin Peaks' and 'Blue Velvet,' has died ...

She is at peace.” Cruise was best known for her collaborations with David Lynch and composer Angelo Badalamenti on the soundtracks of the 1986 film Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks. Cruise recorded the original track “ Mysteries of Love” for Blue Velvet and the vocal version of Twin Peaks’s theme song, “Falling.” Both songs appeared on her 1989 debut album, Floating into the Night, with lyrics written by Lynch. Cruise’s ethereal vocals defined the sonic tone of Twin Peaks on soundtrack cuts like “Into the Night,” “The Nightingale,” “The World Spins,” and “Rockin’ Back Inside My Heart.” Cruise made appearances as a singer at the Roadhouse in the series and its 1992 follow-up film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, in which she performed her song “Questions in a World of Blue.” Cruise made her final television appearance in the finale of Twin Peaks: The Return in 2017. Throughout the 1990s, Cruise was a touring member of the B-52’s, filling in for Cindy Wilson. In his Facebook post confirming Cruise’s death, Grinnan called this “the happiest time of her performing life,” and writes, “I played her Roam during her transition. Singer-songwriter Julee Cruise has died at the age of 65, according to her husband, Edward Grinnan. Grinnan confirmed the news in a Facebook post on June 9, writing, “I said goodbye to my wife, Julee Cruise, today.

Cruise notably sang the Twin Peaks theme "Falling"

The cause of death has not be shared. 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. 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. Her husband, Edward Grinnant, shared the news of her death on B-52's Facebook page late last night. She will be forever grateful to them. Julee Cruise, the singer perhaps best known for her work with David Lynch on Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet, has died.

Julee Cruise, the singer best known for her collaborations with director David Lynch and The B-52s, died Thursday. Her husband, author Edward Grinnan, ...

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Cruise's association with Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti defined her career, providing her with her breakthrough hit, 'Falling.'

She released “The Art of Being a Girl,” her first album of self-penned material, in 2002, then waited nearly a decade to issue “My Secret Life,” a 2011 album produced by DJ Dmitry from Deee-Lite. She would appear onstage and occasionally collaborate in the studio with a host of other musicians — most prominent of these was an appearance on “White People,” the 2004 album by Handsome Boy Modeling School — but new music from her was rare. “Falling,” the vocal variation of Badalamenti’s haunting theme song, became a charting hit in the U.K. and Europe, while “Floating into the Night” turned into a cult hit in the United States. Cruise often appeared on “Twin Peaks,” singing in its biker bar, the Roadhouse, her soft and gentle presence providing a compelling contrast to the roughneck setting. Badalamenti suggested Cruise as the singer for the resulting “Mysteries of Love,” which featured lyrics by Lynch. So it might be a good time to appreciate all the good music she made and remember her as a great musician, great singer, and great human being.” She is at peace.” Grinnan told NPR that Cruise died by suicide, and had struggled with “lupus, depression and alcohol and drug addiction” in the past.

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

In an interview with The Los Angeles Times in 2017, she reflected on her long “Twin Peaks” ride. After “Twin Peaks,” Ms. Cruise made another album with Mr. Lynch and Mr. Badalamenti, “The Voice of Love” (1993). She also continued acting. “It was so much fun to be part of something that just went ba-boom!” she said. “Only Julee Cruise invigorates the show with musical personality,” he wrote. 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. Ms. Cruise appeared in the pilot and subsequent episodes as a roadhouse singer. She replaced Cindy Wilson, an original member, when Ms. Wilson took a break from the band. Mr. Lynch and Mr. Badalamenti had written a song for the film that needed a vocalist. Angelo was doing the music for the show, and we became friends.” Ms. Cruise was one of two acts summoned to replace her. One writer called her style “angel-on-Quaaludes vocals.” Her husband, Edward Grinnan, said the cause was suicide.

The singer, who passed away June 9 at 65, was best known for her performances on Twin Peaks, where she channeled the complexity of Laura Palmer's tragic ...

In it, Cruise asks, “When all the world seemed to sing / Why, why did you go?” It’s a question which currently hangs heavy in the hearts of many, who mourn her passing but reflect on all the beauty she left in the world by way of her songs. The result was “Mysteries of Love,” for which Badalamenti recruited Cruise, with whom he had worked in a New York theater workshop production. The sweet, utterly heartbreaking “The Nightingale” tells the story of a completing, soul-match love (“The nightingale / Said he knew / That your love / Would find my love one day”), with Cruise’s mesmerizing vocal breathing full life into the sad subtext that for some it may not happen in this lifetime. Then there’s “The World Spins,” used to devastating effect in “Lonely Souls,” the second season episode of Twin Peaks which reveals Laura’s killer. “Ethereal” is the predictable (and entirely appropriate) word which will appear in virtually all remembrances of Cruise. But it doesn’t do her full justice. When Lynch talks rhapsodically of getting lost in a world, it is Cruise’s musical collaborations with the filmmaker and composer Angelo Badalamenti which represent the fullest, most poignant realization of some of those realms.

Cruise's instrument, a voice of such intense calm it could be unsettling, made her a natural collaborator of director David Lynch — and, later, ...

In addition to singing, Cruise was also a Broadway actress, a pilot and a dog trainer. It was "the happiest time of her performing life," Grinnan writes in his post. 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. The songs with Julee serve a two-fold purpose: They contrast the visuals and they set the tone for the show." "You would never have that kind of song in a place like that. 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.