Julee A. Cruise was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and musician who was born on December 1, 1956, in Creston, Iowa, United States.
She is best known for her collaborations with composer Angelo Badalamenti and film director David Lynch in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
She released four albums and collaborated with a variety of other artists.
Cruise was known for her song “Falling”, the theme song for the television series Twin Peaks.
She also had minor appearances as a roadhouse singer in Twin Peaks, both the original series and the 1992 movie, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.
She would later return for the revival series, Twin Peaks: The Return (2017), 25 years later, performing in the closing credits of the penultimate episode.
Not only that, but Cruise also featured in Lynch and Badalamenti’s avant garde concert, Industrial Symphony No. 1, which was filmed and released on home media.
Other notable singles included “Rockin’ Back Inside My Heart” (1990) and “If I Survive” from her 1999 Wide Angle album. Her final album, My Secret Life, was released in 2011.
Cruise was also a stage actress and appeared on the Broadway musical Return to the Forbidden Planet and the bio-musical Radiant Baby in 2004.
Cruise passed away on June 9, 2022, at the age of 65.
Julee Cruise Family: Parents, Siblings, Husband, Children
Born in Creston, Iowa, United States, the late American singer, songwriter, actress, and musician Julee Cruise was the daughter of the town dentist.
She studied French horn at Drake University and performed as a singer and actress in Minneapolis with the Children’s Theater Company (notably in the role of Jinjur in stage adaptations of L. Frank Baum’s Oz books).
She moved to New York and played Janis Joplin in a revue called Beehive, while also working with Angelo Badalamenti.
Cruise was married to Edward Grinnan, who is an Author and editor. He is Editor-in-Chief and Vice President of Guideposts Publications, which includes the magazines Guideposts, Angels on Earth, Mysterious Ways, PLUS, The Joys of Christmas, and Mornings with Jesus.
It’s however unknown whether the couple had children or not.
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