BIO
Julie Gold is a New York Songwriter best known for Bette Midler’s version of her song FROM A DISTANCE which won the Grammy for Song of the Year in 1991.
That song has since received close to 5 million air plays:
• It has been recited into the Congressional Record (by Senator Barbara Boxer).
• It has been recorded internationally and translated into many languages.
• It has been illustrated as a Children’s Book and mass- produced in Music Boxes.
• It has been quoted in books, calendars and greeting cards.
• It was used as the wake-up call for astronauts in the Mir Space Station the very first time the Americans hooked up with the Russians in outer space.
A wide range of recording artists have covered it, singers from Jewel to Cliff Richard to The African Children’s Choir to Judy Collins to The Byrds to Donna Summer--just to name a few.
Nanci Griffith, the first to record FROM A DISTANCE, also covered Gold’s songs HEAVEN, SOUTHBOUND TRAIN, GOOD NIGHT NEW YORK, MOUNTAIN OF SORROW, and LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE. Other artists who have recorded Julie Gold songs include Patti LaBelle, Patti LuPone, Lea Salonga, Andrea Marcovicci, Carol Woods, Sinead O'Connor and Kathie Lee Gifford. Gold’s Emmy Nominated lyric WE’RE 4 NEW YORK was a popular favorite that ran on the local NBC affiliate for years. Her song THANKS TO YOU was featured in the motion picture ANDRE, and her song DREAM LOUD was featured in the motion picture UNFAITHFUL, starring Richard Gere.
DREAM LOUD was also a favorite song of The Girl Scouts of America. Gold delights in the fact that she was paid in Girl Scout cookies for that transaction.
Gold served on The Board of Governors for NARAS and was a guest artist for Lincoln Center's prestigious Meet The Artist Series.
She has 5 CDs documenting her work over the years: Dream Loud, Try Love, The Girl I Found, Love is Love is Love, and Sixty.
She is proud to have written songs for the Oxford University Press for a series that teaches English to elementary school children all over the world. As the daughter of an immigrant, she sees this as her most meaningful endeavor to date.
She performs and gives motivational speeches around the country.
Artists who have recorded Julie's music
Nanci Griffith
Jewel
Sumi Jo
Jack Jones
Marta Kubisova
Libera
Patti LaBelle
Patti LuPone
Raul Malo
Andrea Marcovicci
in alphabetical order:
David Archuleta
Frances Black
The Brothers Cazimero
The Byrds
Paul Byrom
Richard Clayderman
Judy Collins
Phil Coulter
James Galway
Kathie Lee Gifford
Karen Mason
Amanda McBroom
Bette Midler
The New York City Boys Choir
NYC Housing Authority
Youth Chorus
Simon Nicol
Maura O'Connell
Sinead O'Connor
Elaine Paige
Cliff Richard
Lea Salonga
Valerie Smith
Donna Summer
The Texas Boys Choir
Ronan Tynan
The Uptown Express
Julia Wade
The War and Treaty
Carol Woods