Ruby Frost

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Ruby Frost

| image = Rubyfrost.jpg

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| birth_name = Jane de Jong

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1987}}

| birth_place = Wellington, New Zealand

| origin = Auckland, New Zealand

| genre = {{flatlist|

Indie pop
electronic}}

| associated_acts = {{flatlist|

| occupation = Singer-songwriter

| years_active = 2008–present

| label = Universal Music

| website = [http://www.rubyfrost.com/ Official site]

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Jane de Jong (born 1987), known professionally as Ruby Frost, is a New Zealand singer and songwriter from Auckland. In 2009, she won the nationwide music competition MTV 42Unheard, giving her a recording contract with Universal Music New Zealand.{{cite web|last=Scoop|title=42Unheard winner|url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1001/S00131.htm|publisher=Scoop|accessdate=21 January 2010}} Since then she has performed showcases at CMJ in New York and The Viper Room in LA;[http://www.onetrickpony.tv/best-new-records/music-ruby-frost/ New Music: Ruby Frost - One Trick Pony | One Trick Pony] toured with Mt Eden, Cut Copy, Evermore and Van She;{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/rubyfrost/events|title=RUBY FRÖST - Events - Facebook|work=Facebook}} and opened for acts including Diplo, Nero, Kimbra, Digitalism and Garbage.{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/rubyfrost/app_178091127385|title=RUBY FRÖST - Videos - Facebook|work=Facebook}} She was one of the four judges in season one of The X Factor NZ,{{cite web|title=Melanie Blatt, Ruby Frost to judge X Factor NZ|url=http://www.3news.co.nz/Melanie-Blatt-Ruby-Frost-to-judge-X-Factor-NZ/tabid/418/articleID/284992/Default.aspx|publisher=3 News|accessdate=30 January 2013}} and was the runner-up mentor when her act Whenua Patuwai came second in the competition.{{cite web|title=Jackie Thomas wins X Factor NZ|url=http://www.3news.co.nz/Jackie-Thomas-wins-X-Factor-NZ/tabid/418/articleID/305913/Default.aspx|publisher=3 News|accessdate=22 July 2013}}

Early singles

In December 2011, Ruby Frost released her debut single "Moonlight" on bFM, which went to #1 and stayed in the radio station's top 10 for 10 consecutive weeks.{{cite web |url=https://www.muzic.net.nz/articles/reviews/45593/ruby-frost-moonlight-ep-review |title=Ruby Frost - Moonlight EP Review |publisher=Music.net.nz |date=9 March 2011 |access-date=27 November 2021 |quote=Her debut single Moonlight charted in the bFM Top 10 for 10 weeks straight}} The accompanying video was directed by Veronica Crockford-Pound.{{cite web|last=YouTube|title=Moonlight|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY1L2lxvZNo&feature=channel_video_title|work=Moonlight video|accessdate=17 December 2010}}

Ruby Frost's song "O That I Had" (off her debut, self-released EP) was remixed by Mt Eden in 2010, receiving over one million views on YouTube.{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKzH6pRfzoU|title=Ruby Frost and Mt. Eden - Oh That I Had|date=1 December 2010|work=YouTube}}

Songwriting competitions

In 2010, Ruby won the Grand Prize of the Pop category in the international John Lennon Songwriting Contest: Section I. This was for her demo "Hazy".{{cite web|last=JLSC|title=JLSC Winners|url=http://www.jlsc.com/winners/2010a/winners.php|accessdate=10 October 2010}}

Ruby also came in third place in the Pop/Top 40 category of the International Songwriting Competition (2011), for "Hazy".{{cite web|url=http://www.songwritingcompetition.com/winners|title=International Songwriting Competition - The #1 Song Contest for Songwriters|work=songwritingcompetition.com}}

In 2012, Ruby's song "Water to Ice" was shortlisted in the Top 20 for the NZ APRA Silver Scrolls.{{cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10818254|title=Top 20 NZ songs of the past year revealed|work=The New Zealand Herald}}

2012 releases

= Debut album =

Frost's debut album Volition was produced in New York by Chris Zane and was released in New Zealand on 8 June 2012 by Universal Music New Zealand.{{cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10810085|title=Ruby Frost's sparkling debut (+audio)|work=The New Zealand Herald}} Physical copies of the album came complete with abstract short stories written by Ruby.{{cite web|url=http://www.nzmusician.co.nz/index.php/pi_pageid/8/pi_articleid/2837/pi_page/1|title=Ruby Frost - Of Her Own Free Will|work=nzmusician.co.nz|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202100625/http://www.nzmusician.co.nz/index.php/pi_pageid/8/pi_articleid/2837/pi_page/1|archivedate=2 February 2014}}

The album was critically well received.{{citation needed|date = March 2018}}

= Singles =

Ruby released "Water to Ice" in New Zealand in April 2012.{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/nz/album/volition/539417030|title=Volition|work=iTunes|date=January 2012 }} The single was playlisted by New Zealand mainstream radio stations The Edge and ZM, and peaked at #3 in The Official New Zealand Music Chart's NZ Singles category.{{cite web|url=https://aotearoamusiccharts.co.nz/archive/aotearoa-singles/2012-07-27|title=Top 20 New Zealand Singles Chart - The Official New Zealand Music Chart|work=THE OFFICIAL NZ MUSIC CHART}} The single's video clip was directed by Joel Kefali and Campbell Smith of Special Problems, and was featured on the frontpage of Vimeo as a Staff Pick on 8 August.{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/Vimeo/status/232908912624558080|title=Vimeo on Twitter|work=Twitter}}

Her next single "Young" was released in New Zealand in September 2012, with a video clip made by Sam Kristofski. Home Brew Crew remixed the song, and it charted in The Edge's Fat 40 for two months, sparking off a national house party tour that the radio station sponsored (along with Vodafone and Glassons).{{cite web|url=http://www.theedge.co.nz/Win/RubyFrostFlatParty.aspx|title=Ruby Frost Flat Party|work=theedge.co.nz}}

Ruby was also featured on the Flight of the Conchords single "Feel Inside", which was released to raise money for the children's charity Cure Kids.{{cite web|url=http://www.tv3.co.nz/Shows/RedNoseDayComedyForCureKids.aspx|title=Red Nose Day Comedy For Cure Kids - Shows - TV3|work=tv3.co.nz}}

In 2013, Ruby co-wrote 'The Wire', the second single on David Dallas's album "Falling into Place". She also sang guest vocals on his song 'The Gate'.{{citation needed|date = March 2018}}

In 2014, she released her first single from her time in Stockholm - "Comeback Queen".{{Cite web|url=https://www.zmonline.com/listen/locals-only-nz-on-air/ruby-frost-comeback-queen/|title=Ruby Frost - Comeback Queen|last=www.zmonline.com|first=ZM {{!}}|website=ZM|language=en|access-date=2019-10-24}}

In May 2018, the Manawatū Standard reported that Frost is still working on a second studio album.{{cite web|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/103930461/pop-star-ruby-frost-visits-palmerston-north-girls-high-for-songwriting-class|title=Pop star Ruby Frost visits Palmerston North Girls' High for songwriting class|date=15 May 2018}}

Discography

= Albums =

class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
rowspan="2" \| Year ! rowspan="2" \| Title ! rowspan="2" \| Details ! colspan="2" \| Music Charts
NZ
2012 \| Volition \| Released: 25 June 2012 Label: Universal Music NZ Producer: Chris Zane \|align=center \| 4

class="wikitable plainrowheaders"

rowspan="2" | Year

! rowspan="2" | Title

! rowspan="2" | Details

! colspan="2" | Music Charts

2012

| Volition

Released: 25 June 2012
Label: Universal Music NZ
Producer: Chris Zane

|align=center | 4

= Singles =

class="wikitable" ! rowspan="2" \| Year ! rowspan="2" \| Title ! colspan="2" \| NZ Charts {{cite web\| url=https://charts.nz/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Ruby%20frost\| title=Discography Ruby Frost\| publisher=Hung Medien\| work=charts.nz\| accessdate=24 November 2014}} ! rowspan="2" style="width:90px;"\| Album
style="width:25px;"\| NZ Singles ! style="width:50px;"\| Top 40
rowspan=1 \| 2010 \| "Moonlight" \| style="text-align:center;"\| — \| style="text-align:center;"\| — \| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"\|Volition
rowspan=1 \| 2011 \| "Odyssey" \| style="text-align:center;"\| — \| style="text-align:center;"\| —
rowspan=3 \| 2012 \| "Water to Ice" \| style="text-align:center;"\| 3 \| style="text-align:center;"\| —
"Young" \|align="center"\| 6 \| style="text-align:center;"\| —
"Feel Inside (And Stuff Like That)" Flight of the Conchords charity single \| style="text-align:center;"\| 1 \| style="text-align:center;"\| 1 \| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" {{N/A\|Non-album single}}
rowspan=1 \| 2013 \| "The Wire" (David Dallas featuring Ruby Frost) \| style="text-align:center;"\| 2 \| style="text-align:center;"\| 11 \| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"\| Falling Into Place
rowspan=1 \| 2014 \| "Comeback Queen" \| style="text-align:center;"\| — \| style="text-align:center;"\| — \| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" {{N/A\|Non-album singles}}
rowspan=1 \| 2021 \| "Never Be Your Baby" \| style="text-align:center;"\| — \| style="text-align:center;"\| —

class="wikitable"

! rowspan="2" | Year

! rowspan="2" | Title

! colspan="2" | NZ Charts
{{cite web| url=https://charts.nz/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Ruby%20frost| title=Discography Ruby Frost| publisher=Hung Medien| work=charts.nz| accessdate=24 November 2014}}

! rowspan="2" style="width:90px;"| Album

style="width:25px;"| NZ Singles

! style="width:50px;"| Top 40

rowspan=1 | 2010

| "Moonlight"

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| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|Volition

rowspan=1 | 2011

| "Odyssey"

| style="text-align:center;"| —

rowspan=3 | 2012

| "Water to Ice"