Julee Cruise was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and musician who appeared as herself in Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, and the series' 2017 revival.
In the original series, she performed the songs "Falling" and "The Nightingale" in the pilot and "Rockin' Back Inside My Heart" and "The World Spins" in Episode 14. Her song "Into the Night" is also heard in Episode 5. In the 2017 series, she performed "The World Spins" in Part 17. All of these songs were originally released on Cruise's 1989 album Floating into the Night.
In the film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Cruise performed the song "Questions in a World of Blue". The song appeared on the film's soundtrack album and on Cruise's 1993 album The Voice of Love. The latter album also included a vocal version of the song "The Voice of Love", which appeared in an instrumental version in the film and on the soundtrack album.
Cruise first worked with Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch on Blue Velvet, for which she performed the prominently-featured song "Mysteries of Love." She was also featured in Lynch and Badalamenti's avant-garde 1990 theater production Industrial Symphony No. 1, which was filmed and released on home media. They also collaborated for two albums: Floating into the Night and The Voice of Love which included songs written for Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.
Other notable singles included "Rockin' Back Inside My Heart" (1990) and "If I Survive" (1999) by the band Hybrid, which featured her vocals. She recorded several memorable covers over the years, including Cliff Richard's "Wired for Sound" with B(if)tek, R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" with Eric Kupper, Eurythmics's "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" with DJ Silver, Elvis Presley's "Summer Kisses, Winter Tears", and David Bowie's "Space Oddity" with Supa DJ Dmitry.
Cruise was also a stage actress and appeared in the off-Broadway musicals Return to the Forbidden Planet and Radiant Baby in 2004. Her final album, My Secret Life, was released in 2011. Cruise died on June 9, 2022, aged 65; her death was a suicide.
Discography[]
Albums[]
- Floating into the Night (1989)
- The Voice of Love (1993)
- The Art of Being a Girl (2002)
- My Secret Life (2011)
