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== Personal life == In 1992, while working on the Sakamoto single "[[Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II)|Heartbeat]]", Sylvian met [[Ingrid Chavez]], a singer and actress who had been a member of [[Prince (musician)|Prince]]'s inner circle. That same year, the couple married and moved to [[Minneapolis]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Swensson |first=Andrea |title=Interview: Ingrid Chavez on her friendship with Prince and working with him as Paisley Park opened its doors |url=https://www.thecurrent.org/feature/2019/06/13/interview-ingrid-chavez-on-her-friendship-with-prince-and-working-with-him-as-paisley-par |access-date=11 July 2020 |website=Thecurrent.org}}</ref> The couple have two daughters, Ameera-Daya (born 1993<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2015-03-16 |title=Miracles and Graciousness (December 1993) |url=https://www.davidsylvian.net/articles-and-interviews/transcripts/miracles-and-graciousness-december-1993/ |access-date=2025-01-30 |website=David Sylvian : Expect Everything And Nothing Less |language=en-US}}</ref>) and Isobel Ananda (born 1997).<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2015-03-16 |title=Keyboard Player (November 1999) |url=https://www.davidsylvian.net/articles-and-interviews/transcripts/keyboard-player-november-1999/ |access-date=2025-01-30 |website=David Sylvian : Expect Everything And Nothing Less |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2023-06-30 |title=All of My Mother’s Names (Summers with Amma) |url=https://sylvianvista.com/2023/06/30/all-of-my-mothers-names-summers-with-amma/ |access-date=2025-01-30 |website=Vista |language=en}}</ref> The family moved from Minneapolis, to a house outside of [[Sonoma, California|Sonoma]], California, in 1997.<ref>{{cite book |last=E Young |first=Christopher |title=On the Periphery |publisher=Malin Publishing Ltd. |year=2013}}</ref> They moved again, setting up a new home and studio in a property in [[Temple, New Hampshire|Temple]], New Hampshire, but Sylvian and Chavez were divorced in 2003.<ref>{{cite book |last=E Young |first=Christopher |title=On the Periphery |publisher=Malin Publishing Ltd |year=2013 |pages=234}}</ref> {{As of|2005|post=,}} Sylvian lived in the woods of southern [[New Hampshire]] in the former site of an [[ashram]], implementing most of his work in a [[barn]] containing his [[Home studio|home recording studio]].<ref>{{cite news|date=9 April 2005|first=Jason|last=Cowley|work=The Guardian|title=Turning Japanese|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/apr/10/popandrock1}}</ref>
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