| Julienne Taylor | |
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Julienne Taylor |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Julie Anne Taylor |
| Born | July 15 Falkirk, Scotland, U.K. |
| Genres | pop, folk, celtic music, female vocals, easy listening |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, musician |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Labels | evosound, Virgin Records, Streamline, The Music Kitchen |
| Website | juliennetaylor.com |
Julienne Taylor (born Julie Anne Taylor on July 15) is a Scottish singer / songwriter who has been hailed as “Scotland’s best female voice since Annie Lennox”.[1] Her beautiful voice creates gorgeous music both traditional and contemporary performed with a Scottish flavor.
Julienne Taylor’s enchanting and captivating voice has been compared to both Norah Jones and Eva Cassidy but has her own unique and distinctive style influenced by her Scottish ancestry.
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Julienne, daughter of Andrew and Jane, was born in Falkirk, Scotland and raised in the surrounding Stirlingshire area.
Family Gatherings were often a musical affair during her early upbringing, but it would be sport that would ignite Julienne's passion in her early childhood. This would be something to which she would return to following a serious car crash in which she damaged her back, resulting in her taking constant pain relief medication for an approximate 18 month period. Julienne would determine to successfully remedy this through exercise, which would later see her qualify as a Personal Fitness Trainer and Pilates Instructor.
Whilst at High School Julienne would regularly make trips to London to visit friends and attend gigs at the world famous Marquee Club in Wardour Street. A few years later she would spend many more nights at this venue, whilst working for a Shepperton Studios based sound and lighting company who provided engineers and equipment to this venue.
The musical journey of Julienne Taylor has been a long and winding road. Having played in various bands in her High School years and studied dance and expressive mime in Edinburgh with Kinny Gardner (Lindsay Kemp Company), Julienne was convinced by musician friends who had previously made the transition, that a move to London was the only way to seriously pursue a career in music. So at 17 years old she did just that..
'Home', was living out of a suitcase for the first few months of her arrival in the capital in a student nurse accommodation in Guys Hospital. She was being signed in as a guest by nursing staff friends and had to ‘change’ her name every other day to avoid detection.
A flat in an unsalubrious part of S.E. London, which she shared with former band members from Scotland, was to become a more permanent base with Julienne working by day and writing songs by night - soon discovering that success does not come suddenly. A spell of homelessness on London's streets was only to compound this further.
Subsequent years saw Julienne working at Shepperton Studios learning the craft of sound engineering whilst singing six nights a week lending her voice as a backing vocalist for established acts and singing in blues and soul bands. Later, after a serious car crash resulting multiple injuries Julienne stopped gigging regularly and instead pursued a vocation in studio engineering career whilst still persevering with her own musical ambitions.[2] During this time Taylor worked with the likes of Paul Rodgers (Free (band), Bad Company), Kenney Jones (Small Faces, The Who), Gary Numan, Sam Brown and Billy Connolly.
In 2001, whilst working with an Edinburgh based independent label, and following a series of successful live performances at the Edinburgh Festival, Julienne was signed to Virgin RecordsFrom homelessness to stardom.[2] A delay in the release of her first album, however, meant that momentum was lost and in a world of priorities, the album and Julienne slowly became misplaced in the shuffle.
2008 and Onward Now signed to Hong Kong based Evolution Ltd.[3] on their evosound label Julienne recorded a new album in Edinburgh, Scotland in between October and December 2010. The album was produced by Stuart John Wood and Gordon Campbell the production team responsible for her previous album releases.
The song Love Hurts from her album Music Garden, became a regularly played song on South Korean radio and together with a promotional drive on TV, advertising billboards and magazines the Music Garden album sold well. When asked by the Daily Record newspaper in Scotland about her success in Korea Julie said "It's fantastic but I still find it incredibly bizarre. I don't even know what type of music people listen to in South Korea but it must be similar to the stuff I do.[4]
The release of her album ‘A Time For Love’ in 2008 sold over 10,000 CD’s in S.E. Asia with strong sales in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand. Julienne’s debut live performance in S.E. Asia took place as the special guest to John Ford Coley at the Shouson Theatre, Hong Kong on 19 June 2009.[5][6]
The new album, The Heart Within, of new wave & classic love songs and original songs co-written with producers Gordon Campbell and Stuart John Wood was released in Hong Kong on 29 July 2011. Her debut headline concert was also announced to take place on 24 September 2011 at the Lyric Theatre, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Hong Kong.[7]
Julienne has two children, boy and girl twins, Callum and Amie (born 2004). Her father Andrew died Sept 1997, her mother (Jane) and elder sister (Carol) live in Scotland. Julienne resides near Bath in the South West of England.
| Album Title | Release Date | Label |
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| Racing The Clouds Home[8][9] | November 28, 2000 | Virgin Records |
| Music Garden[8] | September 15, 2003 | The Music Kitchen |
| Songs to the Siren | 2007 | The Music Kitchen |
| A Time For Love[8] | May 12, 2008 | Evosound |
| The Heart Within | July 28, 2011 | Evosound |
| Title | Release Date | Label |
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| "Like A Rolling Stone " | 1995 | Streamline Records[10] |
| "Just Let Me Be " | 2001 | Virgin Records |
| "Second Hand News " | 2002 | R2/Virgin Records[10] |
| Movie Title | Release Date | Soundtrack |
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| "Another Nine & a Half Weeks[11] " | June 12, 1997 | Why Did You Do It[10][11] |