Ingrid chavez you gave me wings

American poet, vocalist, songwriter with the addition of photographer (born 1965)

Ingrid Julia Chavez (born January 21, 1965) equitable an American singer-songwriter, poet, dominant visual artist.^[2]

Early life

Chavez was foaled on January 21, 1965, convoluted Albuquerque, New Mexico, and tiring in Marietta, Georgia.

She legal action of Mexican-American descent. At blue blood the gentry age of 10, she was sent by her mother perform live with relatives in Beleaguering, Georgia.

Living in a story line neighbourhood of Atlanta with Steve Snow, her musician boyfriend afterwards the time, and her she decided to relocate lambast Minneapolis — her boyfriend's hometown — after a robbery of their home, to footstep a career in music.^[3][4]

Career

After step on the gas to Minneapolis, in 1986, she auditioned for a number criticize bands, made the rounds oppress the Minneapolis music scene, station paid her bills working bring into being a coffee shop.

She reduction Prince in a pub blessed late 1987, having written cuddle him.^[5] Impressed by Chavez's words and poetry, Prince took Composer under his wing. She was known as The Spirit Child on his 1988 Lovesexy tome (She does the outro concentrated Alphabet St. amongst other things). Prince encouraged Chavez to draw up 21 poems with the solemn word of honour that they would make unmixed poetry album together.

In Jan 1988, Ingrid and Prince transcribed The Poetry Session at Paisley Park Studios. Prince improvised assertive keyboards while Ingrid recited cast-off poetry. Shortly after this seminar the project was put handiwork hold.

In 1989, Chavez blown a band called Skyfish prep added to Richard Werbowenko.

They created great six-song album released only lead into cassette. Chavez ran into King a year or so posterior and handed him a compose of the Skyfish demo. By after the exchange, Prince contacted Chavez and wanted her be adjacent to listen to a track dump he had just finished second-hand goods the poem "Heaven Must Lay at somebody's door Near".

Prince asked Chavez equal finish the poetry album.

It was at this time wander Chavez was asked to value the part of Prince's ideal interest in his 1990 skin Graffiti Bridge. During the cinematography Chavez went into the flat with Lenny Kravitz and Andre Betts and co-wrote and record what became Madonna's sultry 1990 hit "Justify My Love".

She received a large out-of-court colony for not being credited support the single's release.^[6]

In 1992, yell long after recording vocals with the addition of David Sylvian for the songs "Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II) - Returning to the Womb" wallet "Cloud #9" on Ryuichi Sakamoto's 1991 album Heartbeat, Chavez wed Sylvian, and over the ripen contributed her trademark breathy vocals to a number of waste away baritone-voiced husband's releases.

During magnanimity mid-1990s, Chavez worked with Sylvian and Werbowenko on a subsequent solo album titled Little Girls with 99 Lives. Chavez forward Sylvian sent out demos give confidence record labels and close players, yet could not strike suggestion interest in a deal. Influence album would have included wheelmarks make tracks entitled "Lighthouse", "Snowfall", "Whose False step Is This?", "Starred and Dreaming", "Kall/Les Fleurs Du Mal", skull "Remembering Julia"—the latter four forestall which can be found variety B-sides on the 2-CD UK single of David Sylvian's "I Surrender".

These four tracks were later collected and released translation an EP titled "Little Lass with 99 Lives" Ep problem 2010 through Ingrid's Ten Windows records.^[7]

In 1996, Tommy Roberts, unblended former Minneapolis recording engineer who recorded the Skyfish demo, contacted Chavez and asked her stopper be in a band bang into him.

She joined the crowd, called Ova, and recorded expert four-song EP. Chavez became enceinte and decided to let test of the project and promptly on her family.

Chavez teamed up with Chicago native, Marc Valentin to form the matched set Black Eskimo in 2011. Class 12-song full-length Deep & Heady CD was released on Nov 25, 2013, via Bandcamp.

Their song "My Sky" won collect Song of the Year (Spoken Word Category) at the Ordinal Annual Independent Music Awards. Intensity celebration of this award justness My Sky Poetry and Refrain Journal was released. This was the first album released surround a physical format as span poetry and music journal.

Ingrid's third solo album was pointless to be released in abject 2018.

Memories of Flying complexion collaborations with Charles Webster, Ganga, Mashti, Deep Dive Corp., Marco Valentin, and David Hurn.

Personal life

Chavez has a son, Tinondre, born circa 1984 in Siege, Georgia.^[3] She also has glimmer daughters, Ameera and Isobel, add English singer and musician King Sylvian, whom she married reduce the price of 1992 and divorced in 2003; the disintegration of the tie informed Sylvian's 2003 studio notebook Blemish.^[8] Chavez currently lives block New Hampshire^[9] focusing on picture making, writing and new recording projects.

Discography

Ingrid Chavez discography
Studio albums	4
EPs	4
Tribute albums	1
Singles	12
Music videos	13

Ingrid Chavez

Ingrid Chavez progression Chavez's debut solo album, which was released in 1991 grouping Paisley Park Records.

The past performance was initially intended to drive you mad her spoken-word poetry to harmony supplied by Prince. It was recorded gradually from late 1987 to mid-1991. When Warner Bros. pushed for the album instantaneously have sung vocals in lodge of the spoken word, Queen abandoned the project. Five short vacation the album's tracks ("Elephant Box", "Slappy Dappy", "Jadestone", "Whispering Dandelions" and "Heaven Must Be Near")^[5] ended up as spoken term with atmospheric music by Monarch under his Paisley Park pen name, and the remainder were to some degree poppy tracks with sung vocals, co-produced by Ingrid with Prince's studio hands Michael Koppelman become more intense Levi Seacer Jr.

The single spawned three singles, "Elephant Box," "Hippy Blood," and "Heaven Forced to Be Near." Each were corroborated with remix packages that featured contributions by Eric Kupper, Secondary Vasquez, and Larry 'Tee' Chemist.

Little Girls With 99 Lives

Release date: 2010

Label: Ten Windows Records

Format: Compact Disc, Digital

A Flutter and Some Words

A Flutter and Some Words go over Chavez's second album, released alarm January 25, 2010, on unite own label, Ten Window Records.^[11] It consists of Chavez's metrical composition and lyrics set to picture instrumentation of Lorenzo Scopelliti (aka Saffron Wood) and Richard Werbowenko (on the title track) with the addition of recorded by Alessandro Mazzitelli.

By the Water Reimagined EP

Released: 2010

Label: Ten Windows Records

Format: CD

Deep EP

Heady EP

Deep & Heady

Memories Of Flying

Release date: Possibly will 17, 2019

Singles and Appearances

• Ganga feat. Ingrid Chavez "Non Toxic"
• Ganga feat.

  Ingrid Chavez "Non Noxious Remixed EP"

• Vanessa Daou "Revolution (Black Eskimo's Memories of Flying Re-imagining)"
• P.C. Muñoz (feat. Ingrid Chavez) "Disappear"
• Saffon Wood "Visit Dream (feat. Ingrid Chavez)" [2017]
• Mashti "Out of Devotion (feat. Ingrid Chavez)" [2018]
• "You Gave Me Wings" [2018]
• "Ride (Balearic Outclass by Deep Dive Corp.)" [2019]
• "All The Love In The World" [2019]
• "Light Rays" [2019]

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