Ingrid Chavez Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Ingrid Julia Chavez (born January 21, 1965) is a Mexican-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. Chavez has a son, Tinondre, born circa 1984, who lived in Atlanta, Georgia for a time. She also has two younger daughters, Ameera and Isobel, with English singer and musician David Sylvian, whom she married in 1992 (but divorced twelve years later). After moving to... MORE

Ingrid Julia Chavez (born January 21, 1965) is a Mexican-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. Chavez has a son, Tinondre, born circa 1984, who lived in Atlanta, Georgia for a time. She also has two younger daughters, Ameera and Isobel, with English singer and musician David Sylvian, whom she married in 1992 (but divorced twelve years later). 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 first 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 LESS