Ingrid Chavez
| Ingrid Chavez | |
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| Birth name | Ingrid Julia Chavez |
| Born |
January 21, 1965 Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter |
| Years active | 1987–present |
| Labels |
Paisley Park/Warner Bros. Records Ten Windows Records |
| Associated acts | Black Eskimo, OVA, Prince, David Sylvian, Unit, Ganga, Ana Voog, Madonna |
| Website | [1] |
| May 19, 1992 | |
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| Studio album by Ingrid Chavez | |
| Released | September 24, 1991 |
| Genre | Spoken word and poetry, dance-pop |
| Length | 41:57 |
| Label | Paisley Park Records |
| Producer | Prince/Ingrid Chavez/Michael Koppelman/Levi Seacer, Jr. |
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Ingrid Julia Chavez (born January 21, 1965) is an American poet, vocalist, songwriter and photographer.
Chavez was born January 21, 1965, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, and raised in Marietta, Georgia. She moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1986 to follow her ambition of becoming a singer-songwriter.
After moving to Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1986, she auditioned for a number of bands, made the rounds of the Minneapolis music scene, and paid her bills working in a coffee shop. She met Prince in a pub in late 1987, having written to him. Impressed by Chavez's voice and poetry, Prince took Chavez under his wing. She was known as The Spirit Child on his 1988 Lovesexy album. Prince encouraged Chavez to write 21 poems with the promise that they would make a poetry album together. When she finished her poems, she and Prince went into the studio. Prince sat at a keyboard and played while Chavez read through all 21 of her poems. This was the original recording that would later become her only album ever released on the Paisley Park label. Shortly after this session the project was put on hold indefinitely.
In 1989, Chavez formed a band called Skyfish with Richard Werbowenko. They created a six-song album released only on cassette. Chavez ran into Prince a year or so later and handed him a copy of the Skyfish demo. Shortly after the exchange, Prince contacted Chavez and wanted her to listen to a track that he had just finished with the poem "Heaven Must Be Near". Prince asked Chavez to finish the poetry album.
It was at this time that Chavez was asked to play the part of Prince's romantic interest in his 1990 film Graffiti Bridge. During the filming Chavez went into the studio with Lenny Kravitz and Andre Betts and co-wrote and recorded what became Madonna's sultry 1990 hit "Justify My Love". She received a large out-of-court settlement for not being credited on the single's release.
In 1992, not long after recording vocals with David Sylvian for the songs "Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II)--Returning to the Womb" and "Cloud #9" on Ryuichi Sakamoto's 1991 album Heartbeat, Chavez married Sylvian, and over the years contributed her trademark breathy vocals to a number of her baritone-voiced husband's releases.
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