I think Ingrid Chavez was just about the best muse for Prince. Everything those guys did together was really awesome. Yeah the Black Album got cancelled and it is one of my favorite albums, plus it has already been officially released now so it doesn't matter.

No Ingrid= No lovesexy. Lovesexy the album AND the tour were FANTASTIC.

Ofcourse we know that Ingrid was not the first choice for the film Graffiti Bridge, but her influence was all over the film. She kinda makes the movie for me. I can't see how anyone could of played Aura better.

Plus I LOVE Ingrid's album. I'm not sure how much Prince was involved with it...I know Michael Koppleman had alot to do with it.

I just think Prince and Ingrid made a great team.
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Dont mind me asking but r u her sister????

No, I don't think so. Ingrid's beat poetry was too scatty for my taste and didn't make for catchy records; poetry set to music rarely does. She was the 'spirit child' for Lovesexy fair enough; but Vanity and Susannah were just as influential in previous music; her performance in Grafitti Bridge was neither here nor there (much like the film) and that's it.

Ingrid is 1 of my least fave Prince associates...

Wow, Sexxydancer has a negative opinion on something Prince-related.

Gohi said:

Her post-Prince contributions to the music of David Sylvian, her husband, add up the worst musical period of Sylvian's career. The moment he split up with her he put out his best record in 15 years.
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Gohi said:

I can't believe I just said that-can I take it back??

sexxydancer said:

Sorry,Prince!

JudasLChrist said:

I can believe that.

I don't think she and Prince were all that great together either. I think she's loopy.

I really love Ingrid! She's not my favorite Prince associate, but
she's got a nice voice, she's cute, and her weirdo personality reminds
me of myself

Krystal666 said:

I like the Lovesexy album.But I think you're giving her way too much credit. I think the motivation and inspiration for that album was from the ecstacy she fed him rather than her personality or her presense.

That would explain why the film was so awful.


Graffiti Bridge was positively horrid. I liked the way Prince looked in the movie. That was the only good thing about it. A doorknob could have played Aura.


gonna hafta disagree with you there. All she did was get him high and talk the same kinda gibberish pseudo-religious God-talk that Prince was known for. Matter of fact, it was around that time (Grafiti Bridge/Black Album vs Lovesexy) that was Prince losing touch with reality more than ever. This is when he kinda started to forbid any feedback that was not totally supportive of every decision he made. This is when he really started pushing the truly creative people out of his inner circle and was slowly bringing in the the "yes men." I don't like her. I think mostly she was a bad influence.

the character she played in gb is actually a real person. life imitates art.

Krystal666 said:

No, and at this topic and your post.

sacredwarrior said:

Yes I can imagine Aura is very similar to Ingrid's real personality.

I love these two together!.....http://www.prince.org/gallery/show.html?id=4923
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Krystal666 said:

Grr...I tried to post a link to that photo in the org gallery of Prince and Ingrid against a brick wall on the set of GB. They look so cute in it...if anyone is bored and wants to post the pic I'm talking about I'll love you forever. They are just 2 cute together!

Sorry Krystal, but Ingrid was never one of my fav's .

Krystal666 said:

Krystal, it's easy, you just copy and paste the image number underneath the picture with the brackets around it similar to this: [img #4923]


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Thank u metalorange!!! I love that picture...those two just radiate positive power together.

Ingrid's album is great, and a very individual release, looking back at the PP albums.

i've asked this dozens of times and i haven't gotten an answer yet: what the hell is an elephant box?!!!

as for prince and ingrid being great together, my answer is no. it was a radical breakaway from what prince had been doing, but nope. wasn't really great.

alwayslate said:

Didn't she get him off drugs, not onto them ?
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The woman is/was FINE but she is DE-VOID of talent from what I can see.
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That woman was a real loony toon, I'm glad she's no longer with him.
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All I remember about Ingrid Chavez was her awful poetry in Graffitti Bridge (the movie)...something like "abadoned on the street at the tender age of seven/my life was no idea of heaven"

GOOD LORD!

Though she was hilarious in than sense. and she was one of his most sexless assosiates.

sexxydancer said:

I can't get behind her either

james said:

I don't think so...wasn't he relatively clean (at that point) until she gave him Ecstasy?

I don't think she was so greatI heard she had some mental problems, I call her the "Dirty Angel".

Ingrid just did not work for me in Graffiti Bridge. It just did not seem right to me that Prince and Morris were fighting over her. Maybe I am just being superficial but someone more along the lines of Vanity or Appolonia or another "bombshell" type woman would have been better in that role (IMHO).

I mean if you don't have the substance (acting ability, interesting plot...) why not go for the style?

james said:

oh no my friend. she's the one that introduced him to the drug ecstasy.

shockadelicaa said:

Aww, c'mon! She was looking for the "spiritual subsitute"


....I've watched that movie too much