She was also, for better or worse, the muse for his third and by far most bonkers feature film, 1990’s Graffiti Bridge. Legend has it that an encounter with the free-spirited artist prompted Prince to cancel the release of his dark, angry Black Album, replacing it with the post-psychedelic (but still kind of dark and angry) funk gospel of 1988’s Lovesexy. Ingrid Chavez spent only a brief time in Prince’s orbit, but exercised an outsized influence on his musical and, indeed, spiritual direction in the late ’80s. But for listeners willing to go even a little deeper than the surface, these 10 Prince-in-all-but-name LPs are well worth your crate-digging time.
Not all of Prince’s shadow discography was as essential as his “real” catalogue: like many artist-producers before and after him, he had a knack for saving the best material for himself. Sometimes, he used his “protégés” as outlets for the kind of straightforward R&B and funk his own pop crossover ambitions led him to downplay other times, they were experimental detours, dry runs for forthcoming shifts in style, or thinly veiled expansions to his own concurrent projects. Prince’s side efforts weren’t just curios or vanity projects (though they were also that-literally, in the case of Vanity 6). I’m referring, of course, to what VMP’s own Andrew Winistorfer calls the “myriad of albums” Prince wrote, arranged and produced for other artists. Fortunately for us, there’s yet another side of the purple canon worth discovering, one that remains overlooked, even by many longtime listeners. His Royal Badness released 39 studio albums between 19: a staggering output nevertheless representing only a fraction of the music still locked in his storied “Vault.” For many fans, these unreleased recordings remain Paisley Park’s Holy Grail-which makes it all the more frustrating to see their official release being delayed by legal scuffles within the Prince estate. Everyone knows that Prince was as supernaturally prolific a recording artist as he was a supernaturally talented one.
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