Biography

Julie Felix was an American-British folk singer and recording artist who achieved success, particularly on British television, in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Felix made two consecutive musical-variety shows for the BBC, both directed and produced by Stanley Dorfman. The first was Once More With Felix.The premiere episode was transmitted on December 9, 1967. It was the first BBC TV series made in colour. and one of the first British shows of that genre to be hosted by a female pop performer.

In 1967, with strong support from Frost (with whom she had a long-running romantic relationship), Felix was hired to host and perform in her own musical variety shows on BBC2, which ran from 1967 to 1970.

She arrived in the United Kingdom in 1964 and became the first solo folk performer signed to a major British record label when she gained a recording contract with Decca Records, for whom she recorded three solo albums.

After saving up $1000 from her job, she left the USA in June 1962 and travelled extensively around Europe for around two years, often playing in bars and coffee shops to earn extra money. It was during her stay on the Greek island of Hydra that she met Leonard Cohen, who at this time had become part of the 'salon' that formed around expatriate Australian writers George Johnston and Charmian Clift.