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Do we know who is the vocal soloist in Like a Prayer?
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He couldn't as listened to the song in his car and got inspiration for the production as Leonard tells this in a Billboard interview and Madonna explains the idea I mentioned above for the video for Interview magazine.
Madonna had the vision for this song's controversial video long before Pepsi released its cutesy dancing-in-the-streets version. She told Interview magazine: "Originally, when I recorded the song, I would play it over and over again, trying to get a visual sense of what sort of story or fantasy it evoked in me. I kept imagining this story about a girl who was madly in love with a black man, set in the South, with this forbidden interracial love affair. And the guy she's in love with sings in a choir. So she's obsessed with him and goes to church all the time. And then it turned into a bigger story, which was about racism and bigotry... Then Mary Lambert got involved as the director, and she came up with a story that incorporated more of the religious symbolism I originally wrote into the song."
Madonna's original idea for the video was to have her and the black saint-figure shot in the back.