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Friend, Lover, Sister, Mother/Wife is the twelfth and final track on the second disc of Prince’s 19th album Emancipation, the third album to be credited to  .
Basic tracking dates are unknown, but it is likely that the track was recorded in late 1995 or early 1996 at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota. According to the Emancipation booklet, the track was "written in Tokyo while she (Mayte) slept" and "recorded in secrecy", placing the writing in early January 1996 (while in Tokyo on the Japan '96 tour); it is likely that he recorded a vocal or acoustic version at that point before recording the studio upon returning to the USA, but this is speculative. The studio version of this track was premiered at Prince and Mayte’s wedding reception on 14 February 1996.
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