American singer revealed in the early 1990s with “Fallin”, Julee Cruise had put her hypnotic voice in the series Twin Peaks, where she appeared on several occasions. She died at age 65.
His haunting and hypnotic melodies in the Twin Peaks series marked a whole generation of series enthusiasts. American singer and actress Julee Cruise has died aged 65. The announcement was made via a Facebook post this Friday, June 10, by her husband, Edward Grinnan.
“She left this realm on her own terms. No regrets. She is at peace…” he wrote. In 2018, the singer had confided to suffer from lupus; an autoimmune disease that occurs when the immune system attacks and destroys cells in the body.
An unforgettable voice
Born in 1956, a member of The B-52’s, which emerged during the wave of new wave music in the late 1970s, Julee Cruise was best known for her rendition of the track Fallin’ in 1990. A piece whose instrumental part, composed by Angelo Badalamenti, was used as the musical theme of the cult series by David Lynch. He was also the one who wrote the lyrics.
The singer was also an actress for Lynch, since she had appeared several times in Twin Peaks. We thus remember her melodies sung at the city bar, the Bang Bang Bar, where she interpreted the heartbreaking song The World Spins. It was also found in the film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, as well as in the third season of the series, in 2017.
Sequence emotional memory…
We remember his sublime song, Questions in a World of Blue, still in the bar in the film Fire Walk With me, where Laura Palmer burst into tears…
Julee Cruise also appeared in the credits of a previous Lynch film, the no less cult Blue Velvet, and also worked with Wim Wenders, in 1991, for whom she had recorded a cover of an Elvis Presley song, Summer Kisses, Winter Tearsfor the SF film At World’s End.