Nite Jewel is the alias of Ramona Gonzalez, singer/songwriter from Los Angeles, California. Ramona Gonzalez began as Nite Jewel in 2008 as the result of her juggling music with undergraduate studies. She cites artists such as Janet Jackson and Mariah Carey as her musical inspirations. With assistance from her husband, Cole M.G.N., she created songs on a portable eight-track cassette recorder. She stated that “moments of ecstasy, emotion, and hardship” were her inspiration for those recordings. 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 describes herself more as “liquid cool” citing English electronic music duo Autechre as a major musical influence. Wikipedia®
Ramona Gonzalez has a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Occidental College. 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”. On March 6, 2012, Ramona released her second album (and debut release for SC), “One Second of Love”. 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. On April 29, 2012, Nite Jewel performed at the Brandeis University Springfest.
Nite Jewel: Boo Hoo (Official Video)
Nite Jewel: Boo Hoo Lyrics:
We could talk all night long
If we knew each other
I could be personally your beloved other
If we knew each other, If we knew each other,
If we knew each other, If we, if we knew each other
[Instrumental/ vocal break]
(Boo hoo, Boo hoo, Boo hoo, Boo hoo)
But you can’t see me,
we’re holding each other
We don’t have to sense it
When we kiss one other
But you can’t see me,
we’re holding each other
We don’t have to sense it
When we kiss one other
(We could talk all night long
If we knew each other
I could be personally your beloved other
If we knew each other)
If we knew each other
If we knew each other
If we, if we knew each other
[Instrumental/ vocal break]
(Boo hoo, Boo hoo, Boo hoo, Boo hoo)
(Boo hoo, Boo hoo, Boo hoo, Boo hoo)
