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Nite Jewel is the alias of Ramona Gonzalez, singer/songwriter from Los Angeles, California. ==Biography== Ramona Gonzalez began as Nite Jewel in 2008 as the result of her juggling music with undergraduate studies.〔(Breaking: Nite Jewel ), www.rollingstone.com〕 She cites artists such as Janet Jackson and Mariah Carey as her musical inspirations. With assistance from her husband, Cole M. Greif-Neill, she created songs on a portable eight-track cassette recorder.〔 (Bring in Da Kraut Funk: Nite Jewel Performs Tomorrow for Re:Play L.A. ), laweekly.com〕 She stated that "moments of ecstasy, emotion, and hardship" were her inspiration for those recordings.〔(Philosophy of Music ), www.oxy.edu〕 Gonzalez is the niece of the English soccer commentator Clive Tyldesley, affectionately parodying his commentary style on the song 'Clive'. Soon after starting her MySpace music page, her song, "Suburbia" was selected to be in Noah Baumbach's film Greenberg.〔 Within a year she was touring European festivals.〔 Her music draws comparison to Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam.〔(Nite Jewel (No 614) ), www.guardian.co.uk〕 Nite Jewel describes herself more as "liquid cool" citing English electronic music duo Autechre as a major musical influence.〔(wNew Rock Review: Nite Jewel ), wnew.radio.com〕 Ramona Gonzalez has a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Occidental College.〔(All Nite Jewel ), hannesgrassegger.twoday.net〕 She is also a multimedia artist and has exhibited a number of video and sound installation pieces in the L.A area, one of which was entitled The Question Concerning Technology.〔 December 6, 2011, Nite Jewel released her single, "She's Always Watching You".〔, prettymuchamazing.com〕 Secretly Canadian will reissue Nite Jewel's first album, ''Good Evening'', in the fall of 2012. Since releasing her debut album for Secretly Canadian, Nite Jewel has toured both North America and Europe. Performances included a date a Midi Festival and a forthcoming show at Austin's Fun Fun Fun Fest! In addition to playing her original music, Ramona performed Kraftwerks's ''Computer World'' in Los Angeles' Krautrock Classics on June 1, 2012. Later that summer, she traveled to New York City to perform in the same event at Le Poisson Rouge.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Krautrock Classics: Nite Jewel & Peanut Butter Wolf To Perform Kraftwerk's Computer World ~ L.A. TACO )〕〔http://lepoissonrouge.com/events/view/3540〕 On April 29, 2012, Nite Jewel performed at the Brandeis University Springfest.〔(Nite Jewel rounds out 2012 Springfest lineup - The Arts - The Justice - Brandeis University ), thejustice.org〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nite Jewel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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