Twin Peaks Icon Julee Cruise Dead at 65
Singer Julee Cruise, best known for her collaborations with David Lynch, most notably via Twin Peaks, has died. She was 65.
Cruise’s death was confirmed by her husband Edward Grinnan on Facebook, according to The Guardian. “She left this realm on her own terms,” he wrote. “No regrets. She is at peace.”
In 2018, Cruise announced that she was battling Systemic Lupus. “I can… hardly walk,” she wrote on Facebook. “And now it’s difficult to stand… The pain is so bad I cry and snap at people.”
Featuring music by Angelo Badalamenti and lyrics by Lynch, an instrumental version of Cruise’s haunting 1989 track “Falling” was used as the theme to Twin Peaks.
Cruise made occasional appearances in the original, early ’90s Twin Peaks on ABC as a singer at local watering hole The Roadhouse, a role she reprised in the 2017 Showtime revival Twin Peaks: The Return. She also turned up in the 1992 film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.
Cruise also collaborated with Lynch and Badalamenti on the former’s 1986 film Blue Velvet, which features her song “Mysteries of Love.”
“It’s like I’m his little sister: you don’t like your older brother telling you what to do,” Cruise reportedly said of her working relationship with Lynch. “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.”
“ He said one day / ‘I’ll meet you’ / Our hearts will fly / With the nightingale / The nightingale / He told me / One day / ‘You will be with me’”
You are a wonderful piece to the delightfully misshapen Lynchian puzzle. Sleep well, Julee.
Don’t forget that she also reinterpreted and sang the Psych theme song (Dual Spires episode).
She also filled in extensively for Cindy Wilson on tour with the B-52s in the 90s when Wilson left the band.
I still listen to Floating. A sad loss but she’s in a better place.
Sad to hear she was ill for her last years. I still listen to her CD, Floating into the Night, several times each year, as well as the original Twin Peaks soundtrack and her other albums. RIP, Julee.
Twin Peaks is truely perfection, Julee is a massive part of it. I know shes more than a tv show but twin peaks was my first introduction to her tallent . RIP
Possibly my all-time favorite theme song. I thought it was hauntingly beautiful. Sorry to read this news.
This is such sad news, I’m sorry she suffered so! As great as Twin Peaks is, it certainly would have been less so without her ethereal, haunting voice. R.I.P.
She was amazing. “Rockin’ Back Inside My Heart” is a personal favorite that I still listen to often. What a unique talent. She will be missed but forever immortalized in the works of David Lynch.