Julee Cruise, a singer known for her breathy, dream-pop collaborations with director David Lynch and composer Angelo Badalamenti on the soundtracks for Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks, has died aged 65.
Cruise’s whispery “white angel” voice was, in essence, a character she created for Lynch and Badalamenti for the song “Mysteries of Love”. When the director couldn’t license “Song to the Siren” by This Mortal Coil for his 1986 film Blue Velvet, he jotted down his own ethereal lyrics on a napkin and charged Badalamenti with finding a vocalist.
