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With her hauntingly beautiful voice, Julee Cruise gave the worlds director David Lynch and composer Angelo Badalamenti created with Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks their souls before making more personal and wider-ranging music.

Cruise thought of herself as a Broadway belter, but the plaintive, unearthly performance she created for "Mysteries of Love" from Lynch's 1986 film Blue Velvet revealed entirely new dimensions to her voice.