Julee Cruise, otherworldly crooner on 'Twin Peaks,' dies at 65
Cruise's instrument, a voice of such intense calm it could be unsettling, made her a natural collaborator of director David Lynch — and, later, new-wave icons The B-52s.
Julee Cruise, the singer best known for her collaborations with director David Lynch and The B-52s, died Thursday. Her husband, author Edward Grinnan, confirmed to NPR that Cruise died by suicide, and had struggled with "lupus, depression and alcohol and drug addiction" in the past. She was 65.
"She left this realm on her own terms," Grinnan wrote of Cruise in a Thursday evening. "No regrets. She is at
