Julie Mintz

Julie Mintz
Julie Mintz (right) performs with Moby (left) at the Integratron in Joshua Tree, California
Background information
Birth name	Julie Sarah Mintz
Born	Corpus Christi, Texas
Genres	Southern Gothic, Alt-Country, Indie Folk
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter
Instruments	vocals, guitar, piano, ukulele, dulcimer
Labels	Manimal Vinyl, Daughters of Cain Records
Associated acts	Moby
Website	Official website

Julie Mintz is an American alternative singer-songwriter, musician, and actress. The south Texas-bred, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter joined Moby's band as a backup singer and keyboardist in 2011. In 2015, Moby produced her debut EP "The Thin Veil" culled from a collection of over fifty songs Mintz had written before joining his band. The sound has been described as Gothic Americana, while Entertainment Weekly calls Mintz's music "an elegant and bewitching blend of Americana and orchestral pop that sits somewhere between Gillian Welch and Lana Del Rey."

Julie Mintz was born and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas the daughter of Michael Mintz, an otolaryngologist [ENT], and head and neck surgeon and Laurie Mintz (née Isenberg), a former beauty queen (Miss Michigan) and high school English teacher. She is the middle child amongst two older brothers, a younger sister, and younger brother in a Jewish family of Belarusian descent.

Mintz studied classical piano from the age of five. She also sang in choir and performed in ballet and musical theater productions throughout her childhood.

She graduated valedictorian of her class at W.B. Ray High School in Corpus Christi, Texas and earned a National Merit Scholarship.

Mintz studied Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. While working in an Oncology ward at Atlanta's Grady Hospital, she began suffering from severe anxiety. This led to her decision to forego medical school, and she began playing music again.

On a summer break from college, Mintz booked her first professional acting role in the Tobe Hooper film, Crocodile.