NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Ingrid Chavez on 15 August 2018. Ingrid Chavez has been played on NTS over 50 times, featured on 43 episodes and was first played on 23 October 2016.

Ingrid Julia Chavez, born 1965 in Atlanta, Georgia, is a Mexican-American poet, vocalist, songwriter and photographer.

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. It was around this time she met Prince.

Prince, impressed by one of Chavez' demo tapes, took her under his wing in 1987….