Jude is an American

United States

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 singer and songwriter

Songwriter

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. His music ranges from acoustic to pop, featuring poetic lyrics, Beatles-esque melodies, and memorable vocals.

History

Jude's debut album, 430 N. Harper Ave was released independently by the Fish of Death label in 1997. This caught the attention of Madonna

Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...

's record label, Maverick

Maverick Records

Maverick Recording Company is an American record label owned and operated by Warner Music Group, and distributed through Warner Bros. Records.-Company history:...

, who signed Jude and released his second album, No One Is Really Beautiful - which contained several re-recordings of some of the debut album's tracks. Jude enjoyed a short-lived radio term on select stations throughout the US, featuring two tracks from No One is Really Beautiful, "I'm Sorry Now" (#33 Billboard Adult Top 40 Chart) and "Rick James" (#29 Billboard Adult Top 40 Chart, #28 Billboard Modern Rock Chart).

Jude first brushed with wide acclaim when his song "I Know" was featured on the multi-platinum City of Angels

City of Angels: Music from the Motion Picture

City of Angels: Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack album for the film City of Angels, released by Warner Bros. Records on March 31, 1998 .-Release history:...

soundtrack, which hit #1 on the U.S. Billboard Chart, selling over five million copies in the U.S. alone. The song "I Do" from No One Is Really Beautiful was used in several television shows and is a fan favorite (and features on the first three of Jude's albums in various incarnations). During this time, Jude also toured with Alanis Morissette

Alanis Morissette

Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actress. She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards, was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and also shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination...

, Ben Folds Five

Ben Folds Five

Ben Folds Five is an alternative rock trio formed in 1993 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The group comprises Ben Folds , Robert Sledge , and Darren Jessee . The group achieved mainstream success in the alternative, indie and pop music scenes...

, The Cranberries

The Cranberries

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, Dido

Dido (singer)

Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong , known as Dido, is an English singer-songwriter.Dido shot to worldwide success with her debut album, No Angel...

, Tori Amos

Tori Amos

Tori Amos is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument...

, Better Than Ezra

Better Than Ezra

Better Than Ezra is an American alternative rock trio based in New Orleans, Louisiana.-Formation and early success:Better Than Ezra was formed in 1988 by its four original members - vocalist and guitarist Kevin Griffin; Joel Rundell, the lead guitarist; bassist Tom Drummond; and drummer, Cary...

, Train

Train (band)

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, and Chris Isaak

Chris Isaak

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.

His follow-up album, King of Yesterday, seems to have been a classic struggle between artist and label, and was unceremoniously released on September 11, 2001. The album featured a cover of Bread

Bread (band)

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's "Everything I Own

Everything I Own

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". Jude soon parted ways with Maverick and produced his subsequent albums independently (Sarah in 2004 and Redemption in 2006). When Sarah was issued via CD Baby

CD Baby

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, it hit #1 on their charts for over a month and is still one of the highest selling CDs in their history.

Currently, Jude is signed with Naive records in Paris, France (where Jude toured several times and has attracted a loyal fanbase). Naive released Redemption in Europe in September 2006, and released the single "Save Me" via iTunes in October. The whole album was released stateside in November 2006, and it became available for download via iTunes in December.

In 2006, Jude, Chris Seefried

Chris Seefried

Chris Seefried is an American record producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the lead vocalist and frontman of bands Gods Child, Joe 90, Low Stars and producer co-writer for the neo soul band Fitz and the Tantrums....

, Jeff Russo

Jeff Russo

Jeff Russo is a songwriter, composer, guitarist, vocalist and producer.Founding member, lead guitarist, co-songwriter in the American rock band Tonic...

, and Dave Gibbs

Dave Gibbs

Dave Gibbs, born August 22, 1965, is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his work in the Boston-based power-pop band, Gigolo Aunts....

 formed the band Low Stars

Low Stars

Low Stars is a musical project of Dave Gibbs and Chris Seefried, that captures the sound of classic bands like Crosby, Stills, and Nash and The Eagles.- History :...

. They released an eponymous CD through the Starbucks Hear music label in 2007. The song "Calling All Friends", which appears on the album and was penned by Jude, is the theme for the ABC drama What About Brian

What About Brian

What About Brian is an American comedy-drama television series created by Dana Stevens and co-produced by J.J. Abrams' company Bad Robot Productions. The series premiered on April 16, 2006, on ABC, as a midseason replacement and concluded on March 26, 2007...

. In August 2007, Jude left the Low Stars after deciding to focus on his own career.

He is currently based in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, writing songs for film and television while preparing another studio album.

Use in other media

• "The Way That You Want Me" and "I Know" were each featured in 2010 episodes of the television series, "House (TV series)
  House (TV series)
  House is an American television medical drama that debuted on the Fox network on November 16, 2004. The show's central character is Dr. Gregory House , an unconventional and misanthropic medical genius who heads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in...
  
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• "Out of L.A." was featured in the premiere episode of the television series, "Men of a Certain Age
  Men of a Certain Age
  Men of a Certain Age is an American comedy-drama television series, which premiered on TNT on December 7, 2009. The hour-long program stars Ray Romano, Andre Braugher and Scott Bakula as three best friends in their late forties dealing with the realities of middle age. The show ran for two years,...
  
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• "Love, Love, Love" was featured in a 2007 episode of the television drama, "What About Brian
  What About Brian
  What About Brian is an American comedy-drama television series created by Dana Stevens and co-produced by J.J. Abrams' company Bad Robot Productions. The series premiered on April 16, 2006, on ABC, as a midseason replacement and concluded on March 26, 2007...
  
  ".
• "Stay" was featured in the last scene of the final episode of "What About Brian
  What About Brian
  What About Brian is an American comedy-drama television series created by Dana Stevens and co-produced by J.J. Abrams' company Bad Robot Productions. The series premiered on April 16, 2006, on ABC, as a midseason replacement and concluded on March 26, 2007...
  
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• "Crescent Height Shuffle" features on a TV advertisement for Miller Genuine Draft that was first broadcast in Ireland in May 2007.
• "Save Me" was featured in "The O.C.
  The O.C.
  The O.C. is an American teen drama television series that originally aired on the Fox television network in the United States from August 5, 2003, to February 21, 2007, running a total of four seasons...
  
  " Season 4 premiere episode "The Avengers", and was also used as a pre-season on-line promotion.
• "Out of LA" was featured in a 2005 episode of "The OC".
• "Everything's Alright" was featured in an episode of the television series, "Alias
  Alias (TV series)
  Alias is an American action television series created by J. J. Abrams which was broadcast on ABC for five seasons, from September 30, 2001 to May 22, 2006...
  
  ".
• "Everything's Alright (I Think It's Time)" appeared in the film The Animal
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• "All I Wanna Do" was also used in an episode of "Alias
  Alias (TV series)
  Alias is an American action television series created by J. J. Abrams which was broadcast on ABC for five seasons, from September 30, 2001 to May 22, 2006...
  
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• "I Know" was featured on the 1998 City of Angels
  City of Angels: Music from the Motion Picture
  City of Angels: Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack album for the film City of Angels, released by Warner Bros. Records on March 31, 1998 .-Release history:...
  
  soundtrack.
• "I Do" has been used in several television series.
• "I Do" and "I'm Sorry Now" were featured in the television series "Dawson's Creek
  Dawson's Creek
  Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama television series which debuted on January 20, 1998, on The WB Television Network and was produced by Sony Pictures Television. The show is set in the fictional seaside town of Capeside, Massachusetts, and in Boston, Massachusetts, during the later seasons...
  
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• "I Do" and "King of Yesterday" were featured in the television series Felicity.
• "King of Yesterday" was featured in the motion picture Not Another Teen Movie
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• "King of Yesterday" was featured in the motion picture Bubble Boy
  Bubble Boy
  Bubble Boy is a 2001 comedy film directed by Blair Hayes and stars Jake Gyllenhaal in the title role.-Plot:Jimmy Livingston was born without an immune system and is forced to live in a sterilized dome in his bedroom, earning him the title "Bubble Boy" by his neighbors...
  
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• "Everything I Own" was featured in the pilot episode of "Smallville
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  ".
• "Everything I Own" was also featured in the television series "Crossing Jordan
  Crossing Jordan
  Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that aired on NBC from September 24, 2001 to May 16, 2007. It stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M.D., a crime-solving forensic pathologist employed in the Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Medical Examiner's Office...
  
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• "My Name is Death" appeared in the film "Final Destination 2
  Final Destination 2
  Final Destination 2 is a 2003 supernatural horror film and the sequel to the 2000 film Final Destination and was directed by David R. Ellis. It was written by Jeffrey Reddick, Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber. The film stars Ali Larter, A. J. Cook, Michael Landes and Tony Todd...
  
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• "Everything I Own" was featured in the season 3 of "Roswell
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  Roswell is an American science fiction television series developed, produced, and co-written by Jason Katims. The series debuted on October 6, 1999 on The WB and moved to UPN for the third season. The last episode aired May 14, 2002...
  
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Non-album work

Jude has also done many musical works outside of his albums, among them—

• The main title theme for A Basement Affair on VH1
• The main title theme for ABC
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  's Cavemen, as well as the score, with Mickey Petralia
  Mickey Petralia (producer)
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• The main title theme ABC
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  's What About Brian
  What About Brian
  What About Brian is an American comedy-drama television series created by Dana Stevens and co-produced by J.J. Abrams' company Bad Robot Productions. The series premiered on April 16, 2006, on ABC, as a midseason replacement and concluded on March 26, 2007...
  
  
• The song "Funny, Now" by the fictional band DriveSHAFT in the television series Lost
  Lost (TV series)
  Lost is an American television series that originally aired on ABC from September 22, 2004 to May 23, 2010, consisting of six seasons. Lost is a drama series that follows the survivors of the crash of a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, on a mysterious tropical island...
  
  
• The song "You All, Everybody" by the fictional band DriveSHAFT in the television series Lost
  Lost (TV series)
  Lost is an American television series that originally aired on ABC from September 22, 2004 to May 23, 2010, consisting of six seasons. Lost is a drama series that follows the survivors of the crash of a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, on a mysterious tropical island...
  
  , with Chris Seefried
• Score and songs for feature film Barry Munday (in post-production)
• The song "Need You Here", for the television series One Tree Hill
  One Tree Hill (TV series)
  One Tree Hill is an American television drama created by Mark Schwahn, which premiered on September 23, 2003, on The WB Television Network. After its third season, The WB merged with UPN to form The CW Television Network, and, since September 27, 2006, the network has been the official broadcaster...
  
  
• "All of My Friends Are On TV" as the main title theme for season 2 of VH1
  VH1
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  's Surreal Life
• The main title theme music to The Ellen Show
  The Ellen Show
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  (2001)
• The songs "Crazy
  Crazy (Gnarls Barkley song)
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  " (live Gnarls Barkley
  Gnarls Barkley
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   cover) and "Gay Cowboy" available on Jude's web page; other songs available occasionally
• The song "Cuba" recorded for the King of Yesterday album, but forced to be left off by the record label; included in the French re-release
• The song "My Name is Death" for the film Final Destination 2
  Final Destination 2
  Final Destination 2 is a 2003 supernatural horror film and the sequel to the 2000 film Final Destination and was directed by David R. Ellis. It was written by Jeffrey Reddick, Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber. The film stars Ali Larter, A. J. Cook, Michael Landes and Tony Todd...
  
  
• Score for VH1's Rock of Love Bus; Daisy of Love; I Love Money; The Good Life
• Score for the CW's High Society

Albums

• 430 N. Harper Ave. (1997)

1. I Will Not Die – 3:06
2. Out of L.A. – 3:14
3. You Mama You – 2:20
4. George – 2:52
5. Paper Towel – 4:44
6. In Between 3:16
7. Prophet – 3:45
8. Life Lays Me Down / Shoes My Size – 5:26
9. Baby Ruth in Atlanta – 5:19
10. Love Letters – 3:10
11. Cammie – 5:19
12. More Than I Wanted – 4:18

• You're So Hot I Love You (EP)

1. Brad and Suzy (remix) – 4:05
2. Prophet (live) – 4:17
3. I'm Sorry Now (live) – 3:43
4. Homerun Hillary – 3:18
5. Out of L.A. (live) – 4:48
6. The Asshole Song – 4:03

• No One is Really Beautiful (1998)

1. You Mama You – 2:20
2. Charlie Says – 4:20
3. I'm Sorry Now – 4:23
4. Rick James – 4:42
5. Battered Broken – 4:58
6. I Do – 4:50
7. Prophet – 4:04
8. Out of L.A. – 4:01
9. I Know – 4:34
10. She Gets the Feeling – 4:26
11. George – 3:21
12. Brad and Suzy – 4:37
13. The Asshole Song – 4:04

• King of Yesterday (2001) #47 France

1. King of Yesterday
2. Everything's Alright (I Think It's Time)
3. Red Room
4. The Not So Pretty Princess
5. Everything I Own
6. Sit Ups
7. Indian Lover
8. Oh Boy
9. I Do
10. I Will Not Die
11. Teenage Girlfriend
12. King of Yesterday (radio remix)

• Sarah (2004) #67 France

1. Madonna – 3:48
2. Perfect Plank – 3:16
3. You and Me – 4:39
4. Crescent Heights – 2:46
5. If You Need – 3:36
6. Your Love is Everything – 4:45
7. Living Together – 1:57
8. Black Superman – 4:06
9. Isn't It Over – 4:24

• Redemption (2006) #131 France

1. All I Want to Do – 4:24
2. Save Me – 3:53
3. Dreaming – 4:15
4. Love Love Love – 3:24
5. Run to My Room – 3:27
6. End of My Rainbow – 3:50
7. Your Eyes – 3:21
8. Breakup Song – 2:37
9. She's Getting Married – 4:12
10. Stay – 4:20
11. Money – 3:57
12. Beautiful Loser – 2:21
13. Fly Again – 3:12
14. Taking More and Giving Less (live) – 5:06

• Cuba (2008) - rarities and out-takes

1. Cuba
2. Beautiful Bleached-Out Blonde
3. The Rider Comes
4. The Rider Comes 2
5. In The Country
6. Everybody Party On The Dance Floor
7. Helmut Dance
8. One of These Days
9. Outside My Window
10. Prima Ballerina
11. G-Blues
12. My Bonnie

External links

• Jude official Website
• Jude Tabs/Chords
• Jude MySpace