How Julie Elven carved out a career singing in video games
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Julie Elven sings a lot of songs in video games without words. That’s called “vocalization,” where she uses her voice as a kind of musical instrument. And she has carved out a career singing as a vocalist in a number of award-winning video games.
She has contributed studio vocals as a soloist to major themes in Horizon Forbidden West, The Legend of Vox Machina, Horizon Zero Dawn, League of Legends, BBC Universe, PBS Nova, World of Warcraft: Legion, Hearthstone, Honor of Kings, Star Citizen, RuneScape, multiple Blizzard Entertainment projects, Tomb Raider – The Dark Angel album project, and more.
And she stepped onto a very big stage in 2021 at The Game Awards. She performed her original vocals from composer Joris de Man’s Promise of the West for the celebrated video game Horizon Forbidden West with film music legends Lorne Balfe, Pedro Eustache and the Game Awards Orchestra during a record-breaking live stream audience that saw 85 Million views.
That’s a great outcome for Elven, who is a soundtrack vocalist, musician and composer based in Munich, Germany. When she was growing up, she played the piano and violin. At age 20, she began recording her own compositions and uploaded them to Soundcloud. And that’s how she got noticed by a composer for film and TV. And her career took off from there and it spread to singing for video games.
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