Chrystabell

singer, songwriter, and actress

Chrysta Bell Zucht, a.k.a. Chrystabell, is a singer, songwriter, and actress. She has been performing on stage since the age of seven, and she has released nine acclaimed albums and toured in more than forty countries. Her striking appearance and deeply expressive style, which oscillates between synth-pop, dream pop, and ethereal wave, caught the attention of David Lynch, who began collaborating with her in 1999. He supported her, calling her his muse, and contributed to three of her albums – This Train (2011), Somewhere in the Nowhere (2016), and Cellophane Memories (2024) – as co-author of the music and producer. In 2017 he cast her as FBI agent Tammy Preston in the sequel to the cult series Twin Peaks, which Time magazine named the best television show of the decade. In 2024, Lynch and Chrystabel released the album Cellophane Memories, with Lynch also directing the music videos for the songs “The Answers to the Questions” and “Sublime Eternal Love”, in which Chrystabell played the central role. Wire magazine published a cover photo of Chrystabell and Lynch to mark the release of the new album. The famous director said of her: “Chrystabell looks like a dream and Chrystabell sings like a dream. And the dream is coming true."