Julee Cruise singing 'Falling' in the pilot episode of the series 'Twin Peaks' (1990). CBS Photo Archive (Getty Images)
On a misty piano begins to sound the seductive voice of Julee Cruise.
The theme is called
Falling,
it is composed by Angelo Badalamenti and the lyrics were written by David Lynch.
Rarely has a song set a series so well, in this case
Twin Peaks
.
Julee Cruise's dreamy voice just died.
The American singer has died at the age of 65.
Her partner, Edward Grinnan, has announced on Facebook: “Julee left this kingdom on her own terms, with no regrets.
She now she is at peace.
I played her song
De Ella Roam
while she was leaving.
Now she will wander forever.
She rests in peace, my love.”
Roam
is a party piece by the Athems (Georgia) group The B-52′s, with whom Cruise toured during the 1990s in place of lead singer Cindy Wilson.
But Cruise will always be associated with
Falling,
the star theme of the Lynch series, a song that she included on her 1989 album,
Floating into the Night,
her first work, released in 1989. “David Lynch writes, Angelo Badalamenti composes the music and I become
Doris Day from Neptune
and I sing
,
”Cruise said in an interview for this newspaper.
Floating into the Night
is one of the referents of the so-called
dream-pop,
a subgenre of
indie music
characterized by its ghostly and relaxed atmosphere.
The singer's relationship with Lynch dates back to the movie
Blue Velvet
(1986), where a performance of hers sounds,
Mysteries Of Love.
In that 1991 interview with EL PAÍS, he defined his relationship with Lynch as follows: “He is the best teacher I have found and he has taught me a lot about what is or is not important in music and in cinema.”
Already, in 2018, he resorted to irony in
The Guardian
to describe the director: “He is like a little sister: he has those kinds of tantrums.
And have you ever seen the temper of him?
Anyone can look funny when he gets mad, of course.
But I love him".
Cruise appeared in an episode of
Twin Peaks,
singing in the town bar.
He also had cameo appearances in the series' continuation in 2017.
Cruise, who was born on December 1, 1956 in Creston (Iowa), was a rather atypical artist, who only published four works: the aforementioned
Floating into the Night
(1989),
The Voice of Love
(1993),
The Art of Being a Girl
(2002) and
My Secret Life
(2011).
She also worked as an actress in a low-key way, in the alternative theater circuit of Broadway.
In fact, one of her first jobs was playing Janis Joplin in a modest musical.
A foray into wild rock that she then completely eliminated when she saw that where she was at her best was the whispering hues.
She was considered a cult artist.
In 2018 she announced that she had a tumor.
