Camille (album)

Camille
Rare LP copy of Camille pressed prior to its 1986 cancellation, without cover artwork[1]
Studio album by
Camille
ReleasedTBA
January 1987 (withdrawn)[2]
RecordedLate 1986
GenreFunk[3]
Label
ProducerPrince

Camille is the upcoming[4] second posthumous studio album by American musician Prince. The album was originally recorded in 1986 under the pseudonym Camille, a feminine alter ego portrayed by Prince via pitch-shifting his vocals up to an androgynous register.[3] Prince planned to release the album without any acknowledgement of his identity.[3] The project was initially scrapped several weeks before its planned release, with rare early LP pressings eventually surfacing for auction in 2016;[3] several tracks recorded for Camille were instead included on various other projects, most prominently Prince's 1987 double LP Sign o' the Times.

In March 2022, Third Man Records announced that they had received the rights to release the album, with Ben Blackwell (co-founder of the label) saying "Prince’s people agreed – almost too easy." While the label indicated plans to release Camille, no release date or method of release has been announced yet.[5][6][7][8] There have been no updates on the release since July 2022.[9]

  1. ^ "Super rare copy of Prince's unreleased Camille LP up for auction". The Vinyl Factory. 12 September 2016. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
  2. ^ https://www.discogs.com/master/1252985-Camille-Camille [bare URL]
  3. ^ a b c d Cite error: The named reference rs was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Jack White Convinced the Prince Estate to Let Him Drop the Mythical, Unreleased 'Camille'". Rolling Stone. 16 March 2022.
  5. ^ "Third Man Records to Issue Prince's Previously Unreleased 1986 Album Camille". Pitchfork. 15 March 2022.
  6. ^ "Unreleased Prince album 'Camille' to be issued by Third Man Records". NME. 16 March 2022.
  7. ^ "Prince's Shelved 'Camille' Album Set for Release by Third Man". 14 March 2022.
  8. ^ "Unreleased Prince album to be issued for the first time". 15 March 2022.
  9. ^ Skinner, Tom (2022-07-01). "Jack White clarifies his plans for releasing lost Prince album 'Camille': "I would never mess with his music"". NME. Archived from the original on 2023-02-01.