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Julee Cruise, Singer and Frequent David Lynch Collaborator, Dead at 65

By Emily Zemler

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Singer Julee Cruise , whose haunting voice made her a favorite of filmmaker David Lynch , has died at 65.

The news was confirmed by her husband, Edward Grinnan on Facebook , per The Guardian . “She left this realm on her own terms. No regrets,” he wrote. “She is at peace.” Grinnan added, “I played her [B-52’s song] ‘Roam’ during her transition. Now she will roam forever. Rest in peace, my love.”

Grinnan later told NPR that Cruise died by suicide after struggling with “lupus, depression and alcohol and drug addiction”; in 2018 Cruise shared on her Facebook page that she was suffering from systemic lupus and was having difficulty walking and standing.

“Deeply saddened by the passing of Julee Cruise today,” actor Kyle MacLachlan, who starred in Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks , wrote on Twitter . “Her angelic voice transported us all to another dimension. Now, she’s floating among the angels. Sending love to her family, friends, and fans today.” David Lynch also paid tribute to the “ great singer, and a great human being .”

Born in Iowa in 1956, Cruise worked with Lynch on several occasions. Her best-known song was “Falling,” released as part of her 1989 debut album Floating Into the Night . The instrumental version of the track, written by Angelo Badalamenti, was used as the theme to Lynch’s iconic 1990 TV series, Twin Peaks . She also appeared as a character on the series, reappearing 2001 spin-off film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and Twin Peaks: The Return ,  a long-awaited third season of the show that premiered in 2017.

Prior to Twin Peaks , Lynch first utilized Cruise’s music for his 1986 film Blue Velvet , which prominently features her Badalamenti collaboration, “Mysteries of Love.” In 1990, the singer appeared alongside Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern as a character named “The Dreamself of the Heartbroken Woman” in Lynch’s avant-garde theater production, Industrial Symphony No 1.

Cruise worked with other filmmakers, as well. In 1991, she covered Elvis Presley ’s “Summer Kisses, Winter Tears” for the soundtrack of Wim Wenders’ Until the End of the World . Her second album, The Voice of Love , was released in 1993. Her third album, The Art of Being a Girl , didn’t come out until 2002.

Besides her own music, Cruise also performed with other artists. She toured with The B-52’s as Cindy Wilson’s stand-in from 1992 to 1999, and performed with Bobby McFerrin’s improvisational vocal group Voicestra/CircleSong.

In 2004, Cruise provided vocals alongside Pharrell on Handsome Boy Modeling School’s song “Class System.” Cruise’s final album was 2011’s  My Secret Life , a collaboration with Deee-lite’s DJ Dmitry.

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In 2018, Cruise released Three Demos,  a collection of three recordings Cruise cut with Lynch and Badalamenti between recording the song “Mysteries of Love” for  Blue Velvet and her debut album. It included include early versions of “Floating,” “The World Spins,” and “Falling.”

Badalamenti recalled how Lynch impacted the success of Floating Into the Night in a 2014 interview with  Rolling Stone . “It was obviously a different sound,” he said of Cruise’s music. “When it came out, radio stations said they had no slots for it. Is it pop? Not really. Is it R&B? Certainly not. What is it? Even the more avant-garde stations found it unusual, so it was difficult getting airplay. But when ‘Falling’ came out as the main title theme of  Twin Peaks , that was a whole different story.”

In the same interview, Cruise noted she had heard her influence in the music that has come in the decades since with female singers. “They sing like sexy baby girls,” she said. “They all have their own personality.”

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Julee Cruise: Twin Peaks creator David Lynch pays tribute to 'great singer'

• Published 10 June 2022

Julee Cruise said it was "so much fun" to be part of Twin Peaks' success

Twin Peaks creator David Lynch has paid tribute to Julee Cruise, who recorded the TV show's haunting theme, as "a great musician, a great singer and a great human being".

Cruise sang Falling from Lynch's 1990 drama, with the song reaching the top 10 in the UK singles chart.

She also performed on the soundtrack to his 1986 film Blue Velvet.

Cruise's husband Edward Grinnan earlier wrote on Facebook that the 65-year-old had "left this realm on her own terms".

Musicians paying tribute included singer-songwriter John Grant, who said , external she was "one of the greatest".

In his tribute on YouTube, Lynch said: "I just found out that the great Julee Cruise passed away. Very sad news. So it might be a good time to appreciate all the good music she made and remember her as being a great musician, a great singer and a great human being."

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Cruise first collaborated with Lynch after working as a talent scout for composer Angelo Badalamenti, who had been asked to work on the song Mysteries of Love for the Blue Velvet soundtrack.

Cruise struggled to find a suitably ethereal vocalist, so decided to have a go at singing the track herself.

"I actually never sang in that trademark 'Julee Cruise voice' before I worked with Angelo and David," she told The Guardian in 2017 , external . "I was always a real belter, lots of power. Working with them changed me."

Cruise with director David Lynch (left) and composer Angelo Badalamenti in 1989

The trio worked together on the 1989 album Floating into the Night, with Lynch writing the lyrics and Badalamenti composing the music. The LP included Falling and other songs that would go on to feature in Twin Peaks the following year.

Cruise also had a small role in the series, and in the 1992 spin-off film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and the 2017 revival Twin Peaks: The Return.

"It was so much fun to be part of something that just went ba-boom!" she told the Los Angeles Times in 2017. "You didn't know it was going to do that. What a nice surprise life takes you on."

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Cruise recorded a second solo album, The Voice of Love, with Lynch and Badalamenti in 1993, and Lynch directed her in an avant-garde one-hour concert film, Industrial Symphony No 1, in 1990.

Beyond those collaborations, she also toured with the B-52s, filling in for Cindy Wilson in the 1990s, and performed with Bobby McFerrin.

Edward Grinnan wrote on Facebook , external : "She left this realm on her own terms. No regrets. She is at peace.

"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."

Many other musicians paid tribute to her on Twitter.

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Julee Cruise , whose gorgeous collaborations with David Lynch elevated projects such as “ Blue Velvet ” and “ Twin Peaks ,” has died at 65 years old. Her husband, Edward Grinnant, revealed the news on a B-52’s Facebook page, as first reported by The Guardian . Cruise was an occasional touring member of the band, acting as Cindy Wilson’s stand-in on stretches from 1992 to 1999.

“For those of you who go back I thought you might want to know that I said goodby to my wife, Julee Cruise, today,” he wrote. “She left this realm on her own terms. No regrets. She is at peace. 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. She will be forever grateful to them. 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. I played her Roam during her transition. Now she will roam forever. Rest In Peace, my love, and love to you all.”

Lynch posted a video statement on YouTube on Friday: “I just found out that the great Julee Cruise passed away,” he said, amid long pauses. “Very sad news. So it might be a good time to appreciate all the good music she made, and remember her as being a great musician, great singer and great human being. Julee Cruise!”

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Cruise was best know for her collaborative work with Lynch. Her biggest hit was “Falling,” with music by “Twin Peaks” composer Angelo Badalamenti and lyrics by Lynch. An instrumental version of the song would become the indelible opening theme of “Peaks.” She also appeared on the show several times as a singer at the bar, and her music was included on the show and the soundtrack.

While Cruise’s name wasn’t as ubiquitous as the show’s central figure, Laura Palmer, her voice and enigmatic character on the show lent an eerie musical throughline to the beloved series.

As a recording artist, Cruise released four albums between 1989 and 2011. Her debut, “Floating Into the Night,” included “Falling,” which reached No. 11 on the U.S. Modern Rock chart in 1990.

That same year, Cruise performed the song on “Saturday Night Live,” filling in for Sinéad O’Connor, who backed out last minute in protest of the night’s guest host, Andrew Dice Clay.

Cruise returned to “Twin Peaks” in 2017 for the long-awaited third season of the series, which aired on Showtime (the original two seasons were on ABC). Her appearance included a performance of the song “The World Spins.”

The following year, she released an EP titled “Three Demos,” which features the original demo versions of her best-known work, “Falling,” “Floating” and “The World Spins.”

Cruise’s unique vocal stylings attracted a host of collaborators over the years, including DJ Dmitry and the bands Hybrid and Delerium. She can also be heard on Handsome Boy Modeling School’s song “Class System,” which was produced by Prince Paul and features Pharrell Williams.

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Julee Cruise, Vocalist of ‘Twin Peaks’ Fame, Dies at 65

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

By Neil Genzlinger

Julee Cruise, a singer who brought a memorably ethereal voice to the projects of the director David Lynch — most famously “Falling,” whose instrumental version was the theme for Mr. Lynch’s cult-favorite television show, “Twin Peaks” — died on Thursday in Pittsfield, Mass. She was 65.

Her husband, Edward Grinnan, said the cause was suicide. He said she had struggled with depression as well as lupus.

Ms. Cruise was building a career off Broadway in the early 1980s when serendipity struck: She met the composer Angelo Badalamenti when they worked on a show together.

“I was in this country-and-western musical in the East Village,” she told The San Francisco Chronicle in 1990. “I was a chorus girl with a big skirt and a big wig, singing way too loud. Angelo was doing the music for the show, and we became friends.”

A few years later, Mr. Badalamenti was engaged by Mr. Lynch, who was still early in his career, as a vocal coach for Isabella Rossellini in the 1986 Lynch movie “Blue Velvet” and ended up writing the score for that film as well. Mr. Lynch and Mr. Badalamenti had written a song for the film that needed a vocalist.

“Angelo asked me to find someone to sing a song for the soundtrack called ‘Mysteries of Love,’ but he didn’t like any of the singers I recommended,” she told The Chronicle. “He wanted dreamy and romantic. I said, ‘Let me do it.’”

Ms. Cruise had always thought of herself as “a belter,” as she often put it (she had once played Janis Joplin in a musical revue called “Beehive”), but the voice she came up with for “Mysteries of Love” was something else entirely, enigmatic and wispy. It suited that and other Lynch-Badalamenti compositions perfectly. One writer called her style “angel-on-Quaaludes vocals.”

The three were soon collaborating on Ms. Cruise’s first album, “Floating Into the Night,” which featured songs by the two men, including “Mysteries of Love” and “Falling.” They also collaborated on a stage production called “Industrial Symphony No. 1,” performed at the New Music America festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in November 1989, with Ms. Cruise performing amid an elaborate set that included an old car.

“Often, Ms. Cruise floated far above the stage, like a prom-gowned, bleached-blond angel,” Jon Pareles wrote in his review in The New York Times. “At one point, her body plummeted to the floor and was packed into the car’s trunk by helmeted workmen; later, she re-emerged to face a video camera and sing ‘Tell your heart it’s me,’ as 10 chorus girls in gold lamé danced next to her image on television screens.”

National exposure came the following April when “Twin Peaks” premiered on ABC, with an instrumental version of “Falling” serving as its theme. Ms. Cruise appeared in the pilot and subsequent episodes as a roadhouse singer.

The show quickly became the talk of television, and in May 1990 it led to an appearance by Ms. Cruise on “Saturday Night Live.” She wasn’t in the original lineup, but the controversial comic Andrew Dice Clay (he called himself “the most vulgar, vicious comic ever to walk the face of the earth”) was the scheduled host, which led to protests from at least one cast member, Nora Dunn, who refused to appear in that episode, and caused the original musical guest, Sinead O’Connor, to drop out at the last minute.

Ms. Cruise was one of two acts summoned to replace her. Mr. Grinnan said in a telephone interview that Ms Cruise, who was still not well known, was working as a waitress at the time and had to skip out on her job. But, he noted, she didn’t call in sick.

“She said that she called in famous,” he said.

Though “Twin Peaks” brought Ms. Cruise wide exposure, Mr. Grinnan said she found a stint touring with the B-52’s in the 1990s to be particularly enjoyable. She replaced Cindy Wilson, an original member, when Ms. Wilson took a break from the band.

“It was probably the happiest performing of her life,” Mr. Grinnan said.

Julee Ann Cruise was born on Dec. 1, 1956, in Creston, Iowa, to Wilma and Dr. John Cruise. Her father was a dentist, and her mother was his office manager.

Ms. Cruise was something of a musical prodigy on the French horn, her husband said, and received a music degree in the instrument from Drake University in Iowa. He said she had applied the delicacy and phrasing of classical French horn to the voice she came up with for the Lynch projects.

But once she graduated, she thought that acting and singing would be more appealing than playing in an orchestra. 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.

After “Twin Peaks,” Ms. Cruise made another album with Mr. Lynch and Mr. Badalamenti, “The Voice of Love” (1993). She also continued acting. Mr. Grinnan said it was her performance in an Off Broadway musical, “Return to the Forbidden Planet,” in 1991 that caught the attention of the B-52’s. Mel Gussow, reviewing that show for The Times, said she stood out.

“Only Julee Cruise invigorates the show with musical personality,” he wrote. “Well remembered for her singing on ‘Twin Peaks,’ she is spunky as well as amusing, although the script unwisely keeps her offstage for most of the first act.”

Ms. Cruise later toured with Bobby McFerrin and worked with electronic musicians like Marcus Schmickler. In 2003 she fulfilled a longtime goal of performing at the Public Theater in New York when she was cast in the musical “Radiant Baby,” about the graffiti artist Keith Haring.

It was a demanding assignment. As The Times wrote , she played “Andy Warhol, Haring’s mother, a demonic nurse and a critic who resembles Susan Sontag.”

Which of the roles was most difficult, a reporter asked?

“The costume changes,” she said. “I’m the oldest person in this cast.”

Ms. Cruise alternated between homes in Manhattan and the Berkshires. In addition to her husband, whom she married in 1988, she is survived by a sister, Kate Coen.

Ms. Cruise reprised her “Twin Peaks” role in “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me,” Mr. Lynch’s 1992 film, and, a quarter-century later, in an episode of Showtime’s reboot of the TV series. In an interview with The Los Angeles Times in 2017, she reflected on her long “Twin Peaks” ride.

“It was so much fun to be part of something that just went ba-boom!” she said. “You didn’t know it was going to do that. What a nice surprise life takes you on.”

Neil Genzlinger is a writer for the Obituaries desk. Previously he was a television, film and theater critic. More about Neil Genzlinger

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Singer Julee Cruise, who worked with David Lynch on Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet , dies at 65

Cruise's husband wrote on Facebook that "she left this realm on her own terms."

Julee Cruise, the singer with the etherial voice who worked with director David Lynch on Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet , died Thursday. She was 65.

Cruise's husband, Edward Grinnan, shared the news on Facebook , as first reported by The Guardian .

"For those of you who go back I thought you might want to know that I said goodby to my wife, Julee Cruise, today," he wrote. "She left this realm on her own terms. No regrets. She is at peace."

Cruise divulged on Facebook in 2018 that she had been struggling with systemic lupus erythematosus, the autoimmune disease that causes the immune system to attack its own tissues.

"I can. Hardly walk. And now it's difficult to stand," she wrote at the time, noting "the pain is so bad I cry and snap at people."

Cruise is best known for her collaborations with Lynch. Her song "Falling," the vocal version of Angelo Badalamenti's theme music for the Twin Peaks series, was featured on her debut album Floating Into the Night , released in 1989. Her other big collaboration with Lynch was on his 1986 film Blue Velvet ; the soundtrack featured her song "Mysteries of Love."

Cruise made appearances on Twin Peaks as a singer in the Roadhouse bar, as well as in 1992's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me . The singer later returned for Twin Peaks: The Return in 2017 to perform "The World Spins."

"It's like I'm his little sister: you don't like your older brother telling you what to do," Cruise once told Pitchfork in a 2018 interview. "David's foppish. He can have these tantrums sometimes. And have you ever seen his temper? Anybody can look funny when they get mad. But I love him."

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Julee Cruise, the whispery voice of David Lynch films, dies at 65

Julee Cruise, a singer known for her breathy, dream pop collaborations with director David Lynch and composer Angelo Badalamenti on the soundtracks for “Blue Velvet” and “Twin Peaks,” died June 9 in Pittsfield, Mass. She was 65.

The cause was suicide, according to her husband, Edward Grinnan, who first posted the news on Facebook.

Ms. Cruise’s whispery “white angel” voice was, in essence, a character she created for Lynch and Badalamenti for the song “ Mysteries of Love .” When the director couldn’t license “Song to the Siren” by This Mortal Coil for his 1986 film “Blue Velvet,” he jotted down his own ethereal lyrics on a napkin and charged Badalamenti with finding a vocalist.

Badalamenti and Ms. Cruise had met years earlier in a country-themed musical he wrote for a production in the East Village.

“I was a chorus girl with a big skirt and a big wig, singing way too loud,” she recalled in a 1990 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle.

He asked her for referrals, “but he didn’t like any of the singers I recommended. He wanted dreamy and romantic. I said, ‘Let me do it.’ ”

“Mysteries of Love” accompanied the innocent courtship between Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan) and Sandy (Laura Dern) amid the dark depravity of “Blue Velvet,” and it crystallized a musical aesthetic that Lynch would maintain for years. He liked Ms. Cruise’s voice so much that he signed a record contract with her and produced her 1989 album “Floating Into the Night.”

“David doesn’t know how to talk in musical terms, so he talked to me like he was directing a film,” Ms. Cruise told the Los Angeles Times when the album came out. “He’d say things like, ‘Really sad, Julee, make it just rip your heart out!’ Or, ‘You’re singing into a void and feel sad but not hopeless.’ His music is different from his films. He’s much more tender and intimate in his music — it’s as if he’s whispering a secret to you in his songs.”

Clare Nina Norelli, author of the book “Soundtrack From Twin Peaks," told the Guardian in 2017, “Julee Cruise was a muse figure in that collaboration. There’s always a duality in [Lynch’s] films and she was a living embodiment of that Lynchian innocence.”

Ms. Cruise was, by nature, a Broadway belter. But she took Lynch’s lyrics and direction and, carried by the gentle synthesizer rivers and doo-wop aesthetic of Badalamenti’s music, became an uber-earnest pixie who symbolized Lynch’s obsession with the pop art from his childhood.

In his review of the album, The Washington Post’s Joe Brown described her voice as that “of a chiffon-draped ghost of a girl group” and said it was “most beguiling when heard late at night, alone or not.”

“Floating Into the Night” mostly evaporated upon release in 1989, and Ms. Cruise resumed waiting tables. Then Lynch used an instrumental of the song “Falling” as the theme for “Twin Peaks” in 1990 and cast her in the pilot as a singer in the central roadhouse bar — and she became famous. “ Falling ” went to No. 11 on the Billboard chart, and the album penetrated the Top 100.

Among the many fans was David Bowie, who “would put ‘Floating Into the Night’ on almost every night as ‘dinner music,’” Bowie’s son, Duncan Jones, tweeted this week. “A staple.”

Three songs featuring Ms. Cruise were included on the 1990 “Twin Peaks” soundtrack album, which went to No. 22 on the Billboard chart and was a hit around the world. When Sinead O’Connor dropped out of “Saturday Night Live” in May 1990 because of opposition to the episode’s host — Andrew Dice Clay — Ms. Cruise was invited to sub and performed “Falling.”

“The music was strange,” Ms. Cruise said on The Red Room Podcast in 2018. “It wasn’t ’50s, and it wasn’t ’90s. And what was it? You know, it was something really cool and different.”

Her second album with Lynch and Badalamenti, “The Voice of Love” (1993), was a flop much like the attendant “Twin Peaks” prequel, “Fire Walk With Me.”

“Second album syndrome is the worst,” Ms. Cruise said in 2018. “L.A. is a lot like London. You know, they get sick of things real quick, and they got sick of ‘Twin Peaks’ real quick. And everyone ran.”

She joined the B-52s, replacing Cindy Wilson as lead singer in 1992 and 1993. Twenty years later she released a new album, “ The Art of Being a Girl ,” which departed from the dream pop sound and showcased her more full-bodied warble, as did “My Secret Life” in 2011.

A trained actress, she played Petra in Stephen Sondheim’s “A Little Night Music” in Wichita in the early 1980s, and Janis Joplin in the off-Broadway musical “Beehive.” In 2003, she played Andy Warhol and several other characters in the musical “Radiant Baby” in New York.

Her fame was forever confined to the Lynch projects, but those wispy songs had a major effect on several artists. Ms. Cruise could hear her influence reflected in Lana Del Rey and other singers, telling Rolling Stone in 2014: “They sing like sexy baby girls.”

Julee Ann Cruise was born Dec. 1, 1956, in Creston, Iowa. Her father was a dentist and an amateur pilot.

She majored in French horn performance at Drake University in Des Moines. After graduating, she acted in children’s theater in Minneapolis. She moved to New York around 1983 and studied acting with William H. Macy.

Ms. Cruise said her Lynch angel character was all musical theater. Her true personality was spunky, earthy and self-deprecating. She had doubts about the first album, “Floating in the Night,” and remembered taking it home for Christmas “and everyone in my family hated it,” she said in 2014. “They were like, ‘What are you singing about?’ One of my lawyers at the time said, ‘This is a novelty.’ I said, ‘Like Tiny Tim?’”

She was uncomfortable with the onslaught of celebrity and with public performance — she would often vomit before taking the stage. She had to contend with stalkers and hated when “Twin Peaks” fans told her she was the soundtrack of their life.

“I don’t want that responsibility,” she told Pitchfork in 2018.

She suffered from lupus for decades, and consequently lost her hair and “had the bones of an 85-year-old woman at 33,” she said. She also battled “depression and alcohol and drug addiction,” her husband told NPR.

Survivors include Grinnan, her husband since 1988 and editor in chief of the nonprofit Guideposts; and a sister.

Like her father, Ms. Cruise had a pilot’s license.

“My dad used to take us up to the Arctic Circle in his plane when I was little,” she told Pitchfork. “He died when he was 51. That night he passed, I flew by myself up to Minneapolis in my Piper Cub that Dad gave me. We have our own great graveyard there.”

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In the '90s, Julee Cruise filled in for The B-52s member Cindy Wilson on tour. The singer is best known for her work with David Lynch on Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet . Ted Town/Toronto Star via Getty Images hide caption

In the '90s, Julee Cruise filled in for The B-52s member Cindy Wilson on tour. The singer is best known for her work with David Lynch on Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet .

Julee Cruise, the singer best known for her collaborations with director David Lynch and The B-52s , died Thursday. Her husband, author Edward Grinnan, confirmed to NPR that Cruise died by suicide, and had struggled with "lupus, depression and alcohol and drug addiction" in the past. She was 65.

"She left this realm on her own terms," Grinnan wrote of Cruise in a Facebook post Thursday evening. "No regrets. She is at peace. I played her [the B-52s song] Roam during her transition. Now she will roam forever. Rest In Peace, my love, and love to you all."

Born Dec. 1, 1956 in Creston, Iowa, Cruise was known for her unusual vocal presence, so intensely calm and collected that it could be unsettling — which found a receptive audience in Lynch and score composer Angelo Badalamenti . For the 1986 film Blue Velvet , the two were looking to mimic the effect of This Mortal Coil's version of "Song to the Siren" by Tim Buckley , whose rights proved too costly to clear. 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.

Inspired, the trio worked together again on Floating into the Night , Cruise's solo debut. Released in 1989, the album includes songs from Blue Velvet and others that would be featured in Lynch's concert film Industrial Symphony No. 1 and, most famously, the early '90s touchstone Twin Peaks .

An instrumental version of "Falling" was used as the theme song for the ABC television series, and onscreen, Cruise became a regular feature at The Roadhouse, a home for the show's bikers and crooners. 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 .

"In the ruckus of beers flying through the air at The Roadhouse, we have Julee singing a beautiful, slow-tempo song, and it's so outrageous," Badalamenti shared with the academic journal Series in 2016 . "You would never have that kind of song in a place like that. The songs with Julee serve a two-fold purpose: They contrast the visuals and they set the tone for the show."

Cruise worked again with Lynch and Badalamenti for her 1993 album The Voice of Love , but after that she wouldn't release music again until The Art of Being a Girl (2002) and My Secret Life (2011). Those post-millennium albums, she said, were something of a reaction to time spent in what she called a "boy's club."

"It's not really about David or Angelo," Cruise told Pitchfork in 2018 . "It's about how we're perceived as women and also how we love women. It's about how I watched my predecessors fight: Madonna , Kim Gordon , Kate Pierson — who is a god and a force to be reckoned with. We're not followers, we're front-runners. I came out of the womb with my fists."

In addition to singing, Cruise was also a Broadway actress, a pilot and a dog trainer. In the '90s, she filled in as a touring member of The B-52s while Cindy Wilson — another tough singer drawn to blurring the lines between kitsch and fine art — focused on raising a family. It was "the happiest time of her performing life," Grinnan writes in his post. "She will be forever grateful to them. When she first stepped up to the mic with Fred [Schneider] and Kate she said it was like joining the Beatles. She will love them always and never forget their travels together around the world."

At the end of that Pitchfork interview, Cruise mused about her late father and her family's cemetery plot in Minneapolis. "We have our own great graveyard there," she said, "but I'm not gonna get buried. I'm going to have my ashes mixed in with my dogs. They're gonna spread my ashes across Arizona, and Arizona is going to turn blue."

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Julee Cruise, the singer best known for her frequent collaborations with Twin Peaks director David Lynch , has died. She was 65.

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. No regrets,” he wrote. “She is at peace. I played her [the B-52’s song] ‘Roam’ during her transition. Now she will roam forever. Rest in peace, my love.”

While a cause of death has yet to be confirmed, in a 2018 Facebook post , Cruise shared that she was suffering from systemic lupus. “I can… hardly walk,” she wrote. “And now it’s difficult to stand… The pain is so bad I cry and snap at people.”

Born on December 1, 1956, in Creston, Iowa, Cruise studied French horn at Drake University and performed as a singer and actress in Minneapolis with the famed Children’s Theater Company. She would later move to New York, where she played Janis Joplin in a revue called Beehive . During her time in New York, Cruise met the composer Angelo Badalamenti, who would go on to compose the scores for several Lynch projects.

Her big break came in 1985 when Badalamenti was composing the score for Lynch’s Blue Velvet . Needing a vocalist with a haunting, ethereal voice, Badalamenti recommended Cruise, resulting in the collaboration “Mysteries of Love,” which features prominently throughout Blue Velvet ‘s closing scenes.

Badalamenti and Lynch would write and produce several more songs for Cruise, most of which were featured on her 1989 debut album, Floating into the Night . However, her most well-known work came in Lynch’s cult-favorite TV series Twin Peaks . Cruise’s song “Falling” became the orchestral theme for the series and picked up a Grammy at the 33rd Grammy Awards for Best Pop Instrumental.

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Cruise also featured on the songs “Into the Night” and “The Nightingale,” which she performed on Twin Peaks as a singer at the local bar, The Roadhouse. Her most significant appearances came in the critically acclaimed pilot episode and the episode where Laura Palmer’s murderer is finally revealed. She also appeared in the 1992 spin-off movie Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me and the 2017 revival on Showtime.

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Julee Cruise, the singer best known for her work with American filmmaker David Lynch , has died aged 65.

Her husband, Edward Grinnan, wrote on Facebook: “She left this realm on her own terms. No regrets. She is at peace … I played her [B-52’s song] ‘Roam’ during her transition. Now she will roam forever. Rest in peace, my love.”

A cause of death has yet to be disclosed. However, in 2018, Cruise shared on Facebook that she was suffering from systemic lupus.

Cruise’s biggest hit came in the form of her 1989 song “Falling”, the instrumental of which was used in Lynch’s hit series Twin Peaks .

Cruise’s vocal version, with lyrics written by Lynch, reached No 7 in the UK and also topped the Australian singles chart.

“Technically this music is so delicate that it’s a challenge just to sing it,” she said in 1990, according to The Guardian .

“But at the same time, it allows me to be more dramatic, more psychotic than if I were just singing ‘Oh, baby, baby’ into the microphone. Certain things you can’t overact while you’re singing. This, I can overact and get away with it. I can stylise it.”

Lynch also used Cruise’s work for his 1986 film Blue Velvet, by featuring her Angelo Badalamenti collaboration “Mysteries of Love”.

She also appeared as a character in Twin Peaks , its movie spin-off Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, and the long-awaited third season of the show Twin Peaks: The Return in 2017.

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Cruise’s death was confirmed by her husband Edward Grinnan on Facebook, according to The Guardian . “She left this realm on her own terms,” he wrote. “No regrets. She is at peace.”

In 2018, Cruise announced that she was battling Systemic Lupus. “I can… hardly walk,” she wrote on Facebook . “And now it’s difficult to stand… The pain is so bad I cry and snap at people.”

Featuring music by Angelo Badalamenti and lyrics by Lynch, an instrumental version of Cruise’s haunting 1989 track “Falling” was used as the theme to Twin Peaks.

Cruise made occasional appearances in the original, early ’90s  Twin Peaks  on ABC as a singer at local watering hole The Roadhouse, a role she reprised in the 2017 Showtime revival Twin Peaks: The Return . She also turned up in the 1992 film  Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me .

Cruise also collaborated with Lynch and Badalamenti on the former’s 1986 film Blue Velvet , which features her song “Mysteries of Love.”

“It’s like I’m his little sister: you don’t like your older brother telling you what to do,” Cruise reportedly said of her working relationship with Lynch. “David’s foppish. He can have these tantrums sometimes. And have you ever seen his temper? Anybody can look funny when they get mad. But I love him.”

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“ He said one day / ‘I’ll meet you’ / Our hearts will fly / With the nightingale / The nightingale / He told me / One day / ‘You will be with me’” You are a wonderful piece to the delightfully misshapen Lynchian puzzle. Sleep well, Julee.

Don’t forget that she also reinterpreted and sang the Psych theme song (Dual Spires episode).

She also filled in extensively for Cindy Wilson on tour with the B-52s in the 90s when Wilson left the band.

I still listen to Floating. A sad loss but she’s in a better place.

Sad to hear she was ill for her last years. I still listen to her CD, Floating into the Night, several times each year, as well as the original Twin Peaks soundtrack and her other albums. RIP, Julee.

Twin Peaks is truely perfection, Julee is a massive part of it. I know shes more than a tv show but twin peaks was my first introduction to her tallent . RIP

Possibly my all-time favorite theme song. I thought it was hauntingly beautiful. Sorry to read this news.

This is such sad news, I’m sorry she suffered so! As great as Twin Peaks is, it certainly would have been less so without her ethereal, haunting voice. R.I.P.

She was amazing. “Rockin’ Back Inside My Heart” is a personal favorite that I still listen to often. What a unique talent. She will be missed but forever immortalized in the works of David Lynch.

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Musician Julee Cruise , who was best known for her collaborations with filmmaker David Lynch and composer Angelo Badalamenti, has died at the age of 65.

The news was broken today by Cruise’s husband, Edward Grinnan, who, according to  Guardian , commemorated his late wife on Facebook, sharing, “She left this realm on her own terms. No regrets. She is at peace … I played her [B-52’s song] Roam during her transition. Now she will roam forever. Rest in peace, my love”. The singer-songwriter had been battling systemic lupus and the chronic pain it caused her to feel for the past several years.

Cruise first broke onto the scene collaborating with Badalamenti and Lynch to create the song “Mysteries of Love” for Lynch’s 1986 neo-noir mystery thriller film  Blue Velvet , marking the beginning of what would become a successful, career-defining partnership. Some of the songs the three went on to create together helped to make up Cruise’s 1989 studio album, Floating into the Night , on which “Falling” appeared as the lead single. The instrumental version of the song became the theme music for Lynch’s cult classic mystery-drama series  Twin Peaks   and won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental. She also notably appeared on the series in a minor but impactful role as a roadhouse singer.

One of my favorite scenes of all time amplified so much by Julee Cruise’s beautiful music. RIP to a legend. pic.twitter.com/NaA0ldgJTZ — Jared (@Name112a7) June 10, 2022

Cruise continued to be entangled with  Twin Peaks  for years, even after the show’s short-lived stint on ABC from 1990 to 1991. Songs from her second studio album, The Voice of Love , were featured in Lynch’s 1992 psychological horror film  Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me , and she also appeared in the closing credits of  Twin Peaks ‘ 2017 revival, Twin Peaks: The Return ‘s penultimate episode to perform “The World Spins”.

A bright star floats into The Great Unknown. Always kind & gracious to me. A beautiful soul, a soulful voice. Her career had a tremendous influence on my life. Bless you, Julee Cruise, the voice of love. Thank you for the path you paved. I am forever grateful and reverent. pic.twitter.com/y8cuQv5RUG — Chrystabell (@Chrysta_Bell) June 10, 2022

Julee Cruise, forever inside our hearts. ❤️ Goodnight to the great singer whose ethereal voice is forever woven into the haunting sonic texture and mood of David Lynch's most evocative films. Here she is performing "Questions in a World of Blue" in TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME. pic.twitter.com/IeiMcMBMgT — Criterion Collection (@Criterion) June 10, 2022

This breaks my heart. I can't imagine Twin Peaks without Julee Cruise, the voice of an angel. She will be forever missed. 💔 pic.twitter.com/76xJYHZC9w — Ivan Rosenfield (@underthefan119) June 10, 2022

R.I.P. Julee Cruise “Ladies & gentlemen, direct from the roadhouse in Twin Peaks, USA, Miss Julee Cruise.” Cruise filled in for Sinead O’Connor on SNL when O’Connor refused to appear with host, Andrew Dice Clay on May 12, 1990. Cruise performed “Falling.” pic.twitter.com/2zbhbDBCjp — Chicago’s Best Bartender (@MikeVanderbilt) June 10, 2022

Outside of her collaborations with Lynch and Badalamenti, Cruise is known for her 2002 and 2011 studio albums, The Art of Being a Girl and My Secret Life , as well as for performing off-Broadway in jukebox musical  Return to the Forbidden Planet , touring on and off with The B-52’s as a stand-in for Cindy Wilson between 1992 and 1999, performing in Keith Haring’s 2004 bio-musical  Radiant Baby , and singing “Falling” on a 1990 episode of Saturday Night Live .

Rest in peace, Julee Cruise. You and your voice will be missed.

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‘I t’s incredible what comes out of Angelo,” David Lynch once said. “He is a master of heart and beauty.” Those qualities, as well moments of droning dread and subtle jazz grooves, oozed out of Angelo Badalamenti’s fingertips when he touched his piano and shaped Lynch’s cinematic worlds. Badalamenti’s music was not simply a sonic accompaniment to his images but something that pulsed, swelled and swayed through Lynch’s surreal terrain, almost a character in its own right.

Badalamenti had an esteemed and varied career writing music on and off screen, working with everyone from David Bowie to Nina Simone, but his ability to construct engulfing worlds, with palpable, tactile sonic landscapes was at its absolute best with Lynch. Especially on Twin Peaks – a score that exists as an unimpeachable benchmark for modern television that has been sampled by Moby, DJ Shadow and the KLF.

The pair first worked together on 1986’s Blue Velvet, with Badalamenti initially being asked to mimic This Mortal Coil’s cover of Song to the Siren after they couldn’t clear the rights. Badalamenti encouraged Lynch to write the lyrics, Lynch directed Badalmenti to “let the music float like the ocean tides” and Mysteries of Love was born. “I don’t know how that happened,” Badalamenti told me in 2016. “I sat down and there it was. David loved it and said: ‘Find us a singer who sings like an angel.’ In walked Julee Cruise and the rest is history.” It proved such a momentous turning point that decades later Badalamenti still had the little scrap of paper with Lynch’s lyrics framed on his wall. It birthed the lifelong relationship between Lynch and Badalamenti – and for a period, Cruise, with the three creating the landmark dream pop record Floating Into the Night.

Badalamenti and Lynch had a unique partnership in that they never scored to picture, with Lynch preferring to describe moods, scenes and stories, often in abstract language, while Badalamenti responded in real time. “I listen to their stuff and I don’t know how he did it,” Lynch’s then-studio manager Dean Hurley told me in 2017. “Angelo has such a talent. A lot of people can really chip away at the ice sculpture and get it down over time but with Angelo, it just happens spontaneously.”

The theme for Twin Peaks, which became Falling when Julee Cruise sang on it, was written in just 20 minutes, with Lynch telling Badalamenti: “It’s the mood of the whole piece. It is Twin Peaks.” It’s a piece of music that wraps up all the show’s complexities and contradictions by being at once wistful, mournful, euphoric, sombre, delicate and dense – both blissfully serene and quietly haunting. Laura Palmer’s Theme is perhaps the most simultaneously beautiful and dread-inducing piece of music to have been composed for television, with piano keys that ring out in perturbingly low tones with echoing ominous clangs, before scaling up to heights of pure, pristine beauty – a tonal shift from funeral march doom to the bliss of walking down the aisle in mere seconds.

Badalamenti and Lynch produced many visceral and beautiful marriages of music and film for the likes of Wild at Heart, Lost Highway and Mullholland Drive. They even formed an experimental jazz outfit, Thought Gang, which provided tracks for the feature film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. When Lynch decided to reboot Twin Peaks in 2017 “the first thing out of his mouth was: ‘I need to work with Angelo’”, Hurley told me: Badalamenti had become such an invaluable sculptor of Lynch’s narrative world that he was required from the ground up.

Badalamenti’s career is littered with highlights but the enduring brilliance and influence of Twin Peaks positions it as an unquestionable zenith. When I asked if he had a favourite scene he had scored in his near 50-year career of composing for screen, he chose the final scene in Fire Walk With Me. He retold the scene in great detail, growing more animated, enraptured and emotional as he did. His fingers reached for his nearby Fender Rhodes as he re-lived this transcendent moment: “There’s a beautiful and immaculate shot of Laura Palmer’s face,” he said. “It reflects sadness but suddenly an angel appears. Laura looks stunned but her sad face turns into a lovely smile. She’s with Agent Cooper, his hand on her shoulder, as the camera pans towards the angel. Laura has a beautiful smile with tears in her eyes – all of a sudden it’s an image of happiness as the angel looks down on her in prayer and then, very slowly, Laura bows her head as the angel fades away …”

He stopped himself for a brief moment before concluding, rather emotionally, “the theme I wrote for that … what can I tell you … that marriage is just … if it doesn’t bring you to tears then I don’t know what to say.” It neatly embodied the special alchemy between Lynch and Badalamenti: a deeply emotive approach to music that can induce tears even in moments of pure terror.

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Julee Cruise , the singer known for her contributions to some of David Lynch’s most iconic works, has died at age 65. “She left this realm on her own terms. No regrets. She is at peace,” her husband Edward Grinnan wrote in a Facebook post. “I played her [B-52’s song] Roam during her transition. Now she will roam forever. Rest In Peace, my love, and love to you all.” The instrumental version of Cruise’s best-known song “Falling” was used as the title music for David Lynch’s TV drama Twin Peaks , which first aired in 1990, and she performed on the series, including the climactic and terrifying “Bob”-revealing episode “Lonely Souls.” They had previously worked together on Lynch’s neo-noir film Blue Velvet (1986) and she also performed in his 1990 avant-garde concert performance Industrial Symphony No. 1 , in which Cruise played “The Dreamself of the Heartbroken Woman.” In 2018, Cruise told fans in a Facebook post that she had systemic lupus that had left her struggling to walk or stand.

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Singer Julee Cruise, David Lynch collaborator and B-52s tour stand-in, dead at 65

Singer Julee Cruise, who often collaborated with filmmaker David Lynch and was a tour stand-in for the B-52s in the 1990s, has died, multiple news outlets are reporting. She was 65.

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According to The Guardian , Cruise’s husband, Edward Grinnan, shared the news in a Facebook post late Thursday.

“For those of you who go back, I thought you might want to know that I said [goodbye] to my wife, Julee Cruise, today,” he wrote to members of a B-52s fan group . “She left this realm on her own terms. No regrets. She is at peace.”

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Although Grinnan’s post didn’t specify how Cruise died, The Guardian reported that she had lupus.

In 1986, Cruise collaborated with Lynch for the first time on “Blue Velvet,” according to the newspaper. She later sang a vocal version of the “Twin Peaks” theme “Falling,” for which Lynch wrote the lyrics, and two songs on the 1990 TV show’s soundtrack, NME reported. She released four albums during her career: “Floating Into the Night” (1989), “The Voice of Love” (1993), “The Art of Being a Girl” (2002) and “My Secret Life” (2011).

Cruise also gained fame as a B52s tour stand-in for band member Cindy Wilson from 1992 to 1999, Rolling Stone reported.

“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,” Grinnan wrote on Facebook . “She will be forever grateful to them. 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. I played her ‘Roam’ during her transition. Now she will roam forever. Rest In Peace, my love, and love to you all.”

Photos: The B-52s through the years Here are some memorable photos of the B-52s through the years. (Lynn Goldsmith/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

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