Artist Included, a new artist-first music and technology company, has announced its launch with its first flagship release: a reborn recording of Culture Club's "Karma Chameleon," featuring Boy George, in partnership with BMG.
The AI music company launches with a mission to help iconic artists reclaim creative participation, ownership, and long-term value in their music.
Built around ethical, artist-approved voice AI, Artist Included is creating a new model for legendary artists to reimagine classic recordings and create new, artist-owned masters for today's market.
To mark the launch, Artist Included is releasing a new recording of "Karma Chameleon," timed to coincide with Boy George's 65th birthday. This is not a synthetic AI recording. Boy George performed the new vocal in studio, with artist-approved and ethical technology used to support the final recording — not replace the artist.
It is the first of many planned releases with legendary artists, as Artist Included works with artists from the 1960s through the 2000s to create new recordings and unlock commercial opportunities across the various streaming platforms, sync, film, TV, advertising, gaming, brand partnerships, sponsorships, exclusive vinyl releases,, direct-to-fan campaigns, foreign-language versions, remixes, tokenization, Dolby Atmos, and trailerized formats — helping unlock future value to actually benefit the original artists and creators for a refreshing change.
Boy George, who collaborated closely with the company on the launch release, said, "Revisiting Karma Chameleon in this way was emotional and creatively inspiring. The goal was never to replace the original — it was to celebrate it and let the song keep evolving for new audiences."
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