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Julee Cruise
12+ albums
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Julee Cruise (born in Creston, Iowa, on 1 December 1956; died 9 June 2022) was an American pop singer and actress. She was a frequent collaborator with composer Angelo Badalamenti and director David Lynch, who produced and wrote the lyrics for most of her songs. Cruise studied French horn at Drake University and performed as a singer and actress in New York, where she also worked as a talent scout for Angelo Badalamenti. In 1985, Badalamenti was composing the score for David Lynch'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 Song to the Siren by This Mortal Coil, 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 Velvet's closing scenes. 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 Night. The album was released on 12 September 1989 by Warner Bros. Records, and charted on Billboard the following year. A moody, tightly structured coll
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albums
Floating Into the Night
The Voice of Love
Soundtrack From Twin Peaks
The Art Of Being A Girl
Say Goodbye Remixes
Three Demos
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me - Soundtrack
Blue Velvet
Summer Kisses, Winter Tears
Twin Peaks (Soundtrack From)
My Secret Life
Until the End of the World (Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack)