Breath aka River Ripple

Sources : My personal research, Wikipedia, Michael Jackson: For The Record by Chris Cadman & Craig Halstead, Twitter account of Damien Shields and the amazing archives of the MJCast.

RECORDING DATE

Breath” (also known as “Breathe” or “Breed”) is an unreleased song written by American singer-songwriter Michael Jackson, intended for the scrapped late 2000s project. It was set to be co-written with Indian-American author Deepak Chopra, and is currently known as the last song Jackson worked on in his lifetime.

Part of Michael’s inspiration for the tour was his concern about global warming. Three weeks before his death, Jackson sent Chopra a CD, hand-delivered to his home in Carlsbad, California. “The music is a very soft, mellow piece,” says Chopra. “It’s called ‘Breathe.’ He wanted to do a song about the environment, and he wanted me to help him with the lyrics. There were big ideas behind the lyrics – how the trees are our lungs, the Earth is our body.”

A snippet of “Breath” was played by Chopra during an interview that took shortly after Jackson’s http://passing.It is unknown whether the snippet is the full track or just a part of it. A CD was later found in the court documents of the Jeffré Phillips lawsuit.] The title was included in Jackson’s notes found after his passing in 2009.

The title “Breed” was a mishearing included in the digital releases of Rolling Stone’s “The Last Days of Michael Jackson” article, as the physical releases of it do cite it as “Breathe”, which also makes more sense in the context of Chopra’s description of the song.
It is unknown who produced the track.
Fans dubbed this song “River Ripple” after an article by The Sun was released, claiming that Jackson had made a song by that title after a day of playing with his children.Considering the source material, there is no official confirmation whether or not a track by the title of “River Ripple” actually exists.

STUDIO(S)

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SONGWRITER(S)

Michael Jackson

PRODUCER(S)

Michael Jackson

RELEASE DATE :

Unreleased.

LABEL

Unreleased

LENGTH

???

ALTERNATE VERSIONS RECORDED BY MJ (covers and remixes by other artists are not included)

No other version known to exist

MUSICIANS

???

PEAK ON HOT 100 BILLBOARD :

Never released as a single

SHORT FILM

No short film

LIVE PERFORMANCES ON TV SHOWS

Never performed on TV

LIVE PERFORMANCES IN CONCERTS

Never performed in concerts

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