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Opening scene in Lumberton, North Carolina; Jeffrey’s father suffers from a stroke. (1:06) Jeffrey visits Dorothy at her apartment and kisses her.

Isabella Rossellini

Jeffrey and Sandy watch Dorothy sing this song at the lounge. (0:59) Dorothy sing this song again on stage. (1:58) Dorothy hugs her son.

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Mysteries of Love Instrumental

Angelo Badalamenti

Jeffrey tells Sandy he loves her and kisses her at the diner.

Honky Tonk Pt. 1

Bill Doggett

Frank brings Jeffrey and Dorothy to Ben’s place.

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Livin' for Your Lover

Jeffrey and Sandy arrive at the dance party.

Mysteries of Love

Julee Cruise

Jeffrey and Sandy dance to this song at the party. (1:45) Jeffrey tells Sandy over the payphone to tell her father everything. (1:55) The police arrive at Dorothy’s apartment; Jeffrey and Sandy are reunited and later enter into a relationship. (1:59) End credits song.

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SoundTRAX: Julee Cruise from "Blue Velvet"

Beneath the words "Blue Velvet" is a picture of the actors in an embrace.

Director David Lynch and composer Angelo Badalamenti were frequent collaborators and you can barely think of one without the influence of the other.

The soundtrack to the 1986 film Blue Velvet is the movie that kicked off their long and fruitful partnership.

Not only does it feature pop classics like the title track made famous by Bobby Vinton and Roy Orbison 's "In Dreams," but the duo joined forces to create an iconic original tune as well.

When Angelo Badalamenti asked David Lynch what he wanted the track to sound like, he answered:

"Oh, just make it like the wind, Angelo. It should be a song that floats on the sea of time. Make it cosmic."

Lynch loved the result and asked Badalamenti to find a female singer who sounded like Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins and This Mortal Coil — Lynch had wanted the latter's "Song to the Siren" but couldn't secure the rights.

Badalamenti suggested Julee Cruise , with whom he’d worked previously, and the result dazzled Lynch and filmgoers alike.

In a sad coincidence, both Badalamenti and Cruise died in 2022. But this cinematic gem lives on.

From Blue Velvet , today's SoundTRAX is Julee Cruise with "Mysteries of Love."

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Julee Cruise’s angelic voice guided us through David Lynch’s American hell

The singer blended dream-pop with Americana to eerie effect, and Lynch’s uncanny work elevated her songs to the sublime

T he celestial sigh that we think of as the voice of Julee Cruise was a collaborative fiction. In 1986 David Lynch was obsessed with This Mortal Coil’s version of Song to the Siren, sung by Elizabeth Fraser, and desperate to feature it in his movie Blue Velvet but he couldn’t afford to license it. His plan B was to commission the composer Angelo Badalamenti to mimic the song’s peculiar, oceanic blend of bliss and oblivion. To complete the composition, Mysteries of Love, Badalamenti needed a very particular voice and he asked Julee Cruise to help him track one down.

Cruise thought her own would never work. Having appeared in children’s theatre and TV movies, the 29-year-old was an off-Broadway chorus girl with a voice for musical theatre and club tunes. She’d even played Janis Joplin on stage. But when nobody else could be found she agreed to try something completely different. “I’m anything anybody wants me to be and I’m going to be the best there is,” she told Pitchfork in 2018 .

Mysteries of Love proved even more ethereal than Song to the Siren, achieving the disembodied, immersive quality of ambient music even while using vocals and lyrics. Cruise isn’t so much singing as breathing to a melody. The effect was so distant from her usual voice that she had to approach it like an actor and inhabit a persona, which the trio nicknamed “the white angel”.

“What [Badalamenti] did with my voice was incredible,” Cruise said in 2005 . “I was a belter, and he turned my voice around and created that angelic sound. I wouldn’t have a career without him.”

Mysteries of Love was so captivating and otherworldly that Warner Bros Records offered Cruise a deal to make a whole album, with Lynch writing the lyrics and Badalamenti the music. They ended up working on three projects simultaneously – 1989’s Floating Into the Night, the theatre piece Industrial Symphony No 1 and the music to Lynch’s new TV series Twin Peaks – with songs and motifs flowing between them. Similarly, some of the music on Cruise’s 1993 follow-up, The Voice of Love, appeared in Lynch’s films Wild at Heart and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. The trio also collaborated on a cover of Elvis Presley’s Summer Kisses, Winter Tears for the Wim Wenders movie Until the End of the World. For several years the three were a dream team.

The songs are exquisite in their own right but their indelible association with Lynch’s imagery makes them transcendent: it wasn’t until Twin Peaks mania broke out that Floating Into the Night became a hit. “It was so much fun to be part of something that just went ba-boom!” Cruise recalled in 2017. “You really didn’t know it was going to do that.”

David Lynch, Julee Cruise and Angelo Badalamenti in 1989.

During this period Lynch was obsessed with a dreamlike misremembering of the 1950s, in which wholesome innocence is eaten away by the uncanny and the outright horrific. Badalamenti translated this into music which combined tranquillity with menace. Cruise becomes our enigmatic ghost-guide, suffusing Lynch’s extremely simple lyrics with unfathomable longing. She was credited in Industrial Symphony No 1 as The Dreamself of the Heartbroken Woman and appeared as a roadhouse singer in Twin Peaks. “Julee Cruise, with her ethereal, angelic voice … to have her singing in a rough redneck bar … I mean, there’s no way in hell that would really happen,” Badalamenti told the NME in 2011 . “It’s the contrast that makes it work.”

Cruise’s songs still evoke a particular early-90s sensibility. In one direction, they were in conversation with the eerie Americana of Lynch soundtrack highlights such as Roy Orbison’s In Dreams and Chris Isaak’s quiff-rock throwback Wicked Game. In another, they spoke to the swooning dream-pop of Mazzy Star and the UK’s shoegazing scene. Lana Del Rey, for one, might not exist without that hybrid.

Cruise had a picaresque creative life beyond Lynchworld and the white angel. She toured with the B-52’s, duetted with Pharrell Williams, made a trip-hop album with Deee-Lite’s DJ Dmitry and played Andy Warhol in a stage musical, before retiring from performance due to systemic lupus. She was last seen by the public in familiar surroundings, reprising her old song The World Spins in 2017’s Twin Peaks: The Return, so it was painful to learn that she hated the episode and had fallen out with Lynch. “I will never perform again,” she wrote on Facebook. “I’m through with this!”

Sometimes Cruise seemed emphatically proud of her connection to Twin Peaks and sometimes sick of it but either way, that is how she will be best remembered. One day in 1986 she took on a vocal persona to help out a friend and it defined the rest of her life, plunging her deep into the dream-life of American culture.

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In the Facebook post, Grinnan wrote, “For those of you who go back I thought you might want to know that I said goodby to my wife, Julee Cruise, today. 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 [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 [the B-52s song] ‘Roam’ during her transition. Now she will roam forever. Rest In Peace, my love, and love to you all.”

Despite her stint with the New Wave band from Georgia, Cruise was best known for her collaborations with Lynch, first working with the director on the 1986 feature film Blue Velvet. Recommended by Badalamenti, with whom she had worked in the New York City theater scene, Cruise was recruited by Lynch to sing “Mysteries of Love”, the lovely, vaguely funereal song that ends the film.

Lynch and Badalamenti wrote additional songs for Cruise’s debut album, 1989’s Floating into the Night , and the three reteamed, perhaps most memorably, for Lynch’s groundbreaking and eccentric 1990-92 ABC television series Twin Peaks. Cruise provided the breathy vocals for the series’ songs “Into the Night” and “The Nightingale,” as well as for the soundtrack’s vocal version of the series’ instantly recognizable theme “Falling.”

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. She returned to the Lynchian universe for the 2017 Showtime revival Twin Peaks: The Return , performing the song “The World Spins.”

Following her 1989 debut album Floating into the Night , which included the Twin Peaks theme “Falling,” Cruise would go on to release additional LPs including The Voice of Love (1993), The Art of Being a Girl (2002) and My Secret Life (2011). Over the years, she would collaborate with such musicians as Moby, the Welsh electronic music group Hybrid, former members of Deee-Lite, Pharrell Williams, and Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore, among others.

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

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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, Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks Singer, Dies at 65

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Julee Cruise , the singer, multi-instrumentalist, actor, and longtime collaborator of David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti , died yesterday by suicide, Cruise’s husband Edward Grinnan tells Pitchfork. Grinnan also wrote a commemorative post for Cruise on Facebook . “She left this realm on her own terms,” he wrote. “No regrets. She is at peace.… I played her [the B-52’s song] ‘Roam’ during her transition. Now she will roam forever.” Speaking on the phone with Pitchfork, Grinnan remarked, “She was the most creative person I ever met, and I think I married her for that creativity.” Julee Cruise was 65 years old.

Lynch eulogized Cruise on YouTube today. “I just found out that the great Julee Cruise passed away. Very sad news,” he said. “So might be a good time to appreciate all the good music she made, and remember her as being a great musician, great singer, and a great human being. Julee Cruise.”

Born in Creston, Iowa, in 1956, Cruise trained as both a musician and an amateur pilot while growing up. In the mid-1980s, she met Lynch during production for Blue Velvet , which featured her unforgettable rendition of “Mysteries of Love.” She returned to work with Lynch on Twin Peaks and its offshoots, appearing as both an actor and singer. Her performances included a second-season rendition of “The World Spins,” reprised for the finale of Twin Peaks: The Return in 2017.

Cruise’s “Falling,” the vocal version of the Twin Peaks theme song, appeared on her 1989 debut album, Floating Into the Night , made with Lynch and Badalamenti. “When David came into the studio, it made a big difference,” she said in 2018. “It was really a great team because Angelo and I are so malleable and so good at being chameleons. If you want me to sing a high A flat, I’ll do it. If you want me to weigh 80 pounds, I’ll do it. I’m an actor, I’m a musician, I’m a writer. I’m anything anybody wants me to be and I’m going to be the best there is.”

In 1990, Cruise starred in the musical film Industrial Symphony No. 1 . The following year, she sang Elvis Presley’s “Summer Kisses, Winter Tears” for Wim Wenders’ film Until the End of the World . She released a second album, The Voice of Love , in 1993, but later lamented its poor production values; Sacred Bones reissued the record in 2018.

Before releasing her 2002 album, The Art of Being a Girl , Cruise sporadically toured with the B-52’s, filling in for Cindy Wilson. She also sang alongside Pharrell Williams on Handsome Boy Modeling School’s 2004 song “Class System.” She released a final studio album, My Secret Life , with Deee-Lite’s DJ Dmitry in 2011.

In her later years, Cruise spoke of retreating from the stage, partly due to chronic pain from lupus. In 2018, before Joseph R. Biden Jr. won the state of Arizona in the 2020 election, she spoke of her wishes for a final resting place. “I’m not gonna get buried,” she said. “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. It’s not gonna be a red state anymore.”

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Julee Cruise, Voice of Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet , Dead at 65

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. She left this realm on her own terms. No regrets. 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.

Beyond Twin Peaks , Cruise performed in Lynch and Badalamenti’s 1989 Brooklyn Academy of Music performance piece, Industrial Symphony No. 1. In 1990, she performed “Falling” on Saturday Night Live after Sinéad O’Connor withdrew as musical guest . 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. Now she will roam forever. Rest In Peace, my love, and love to you all.”

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Julee Cruise, Singer Who Worked With David Lynch on ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Blue Velvet,’ Dies at 65

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.

Watch Cruise perform “Falling” live below:

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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."

Julee Cruise, otherworldly crooner on 'Twin Peaks,' dies at 65

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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."

If you or someone you know may be considering suicide, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 (En Español: 1-888-628-9454; Deaf and Hard of Hearing: 1-800-799-4889) or the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741.

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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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Julee Cruise Performs Songs From Twin Peaks And Blue Velvet At New York Fashion Week (Video)

Little did the fashion loving audience at Creatures Of The Wind ‘s Spring 2017 runway show know they would leave Manhattan’s Masonic Hall so moved.

“The idea of the collection was strength through vulnerability. There’s a power in sweetness. There’s a power in softness. […] We kept saying, ‘We need somebody like Julee Cruise to perform. And then it was like, ‘Hold on, why don’t we see if we can get her?’” Christopher Peters, one of the two designers behind the label, explained to Vogue .

And they did.

On the second day of New York Fashion Week, the Roadhouse singer took the stage in a custom silver dress for an evocative performance of three songs written for her by Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch : “Rockin’ Back Inside My Heart” and “The World Spins” from Twin Peaks, and Blue Velvet’s “Mysteries Of Love.”

In Julee Cruise’s own words on Facebook:

Creatures of The Wind Fashion Show Was Pure Live Professional Work of Beautiful Theater…Nothing like being a live part of this experience!…..And Those Clothes!!

And here’s the proof in the form of several short videos. You can’t always see Julee in these, but you’ll hear her. That’s what matters.

https://www.facebook.com/nowfashion/videos/10155277182178289/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED