Ruby Frost

Ruby Frost
Background information
Birth name	Jane de Jong
Born	1987 (age 36–37) Wellington, New Zealand
Origin	Auckland, New Zealand
Genres	Indie pop electronic
Occupation	Singer-songwriter
Years active	2008–present
Labels	Universal Music
Website	Official site

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.^[1] Since then she has performed showcases at CMJ in New York and The Viper Room in LA;^[2] toured with Mt Eden, Cut Copy, Evermore and Van She;^[3] and opened for acts including Diplo, Nero, Kimbra, Digitalism and Garbage.^[4] She was one of the four judges in season one of The X Factor NZ,^[5] and was the runner-up mentor when her act Whenua Patuwai came second in the competition.^[6]

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.^[7] The accompanying video was directed by Veronica Crockford-Pound.^[8]

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.^[9]

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".^[10]

Ruby also came in third place in the Pop/Top 40 category of the International Songwriting Competition (2011), for "Hazy".^[11]

In 2012, Ruby's song "Water to Ice" was shortlisted in the Top 20 for the NZ APRA Silver Scrolls.^[12]

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.^[13] Physical copies of the album came complete with abstract short stories written by Ruby.^[14]

The album was critically well received.^{[citation needed]}

Ruby released "Water to Ice" in New Zealand in April 2012.^[15] 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.^[16] 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.^[17]

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).^[18]

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.^[19]

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]}

In 2014, she released her first single from her time in Stockholm - "Comeback Queen".^[20]

In May 2018, the Manuwatu Standard reported that Frost is still working on a second studio album.^[21]

• Official site