Liza Minnelli, Art Garfunkel Join Artists Co-Creating Songs With ElevenLabs AI Tech

What good is sitting alone in your room? Come hear the music play. Life is a Cabaret, old chum, come to the Cabaret.

And it’s an ‘AI Cabaret’. Liza Minnelli and Art Garfunkel are two of the stars joining ElevenLabs as it pushes further into the music business.

“The Eleven Album” is a compilation created through a partnership between human musicians and its AI-based model capable of generating “studio-quality compositions.” The album is available to stream on ElevenLabs’ website and Spotify.

The release signals a major new phase for ElevenLabs, best known for AI voice generation, as it positions itself not just as a technical platform but as a creative production partner — and, potentially, an influential gatekeeper in how AI-driven music is made and monetized.

The album

According to ElevenLabs, its Eleven Music system can generate full compositions from simple prompts, while also giving musicians tools to revise tracks with “granular control,” including the ability to adjust lyrics, timing, and instrumentation. The system can also provide up to six stems for additional mixing and arrangement.

Those claims place ElevenLabs in the fast-growing category of generative music platforms that aim to shorten production timelines and lower barriers to entry, enabling creators to work faster while experimenting with styles or arrangements that might normally require a full team of collaborators.

“The Eleven Album” spans multiple genres, including rap, pop, R&B, and EDM.

Minnelli’s contribution, “Kids Wait Till You Hear This,” is described as an EDM track featuring her repeating the title and the phrase, “All eyes on you,” ending with: “All eyes on me.” Importantly, the report notes it is her actual voice — not an AI re-creation — according to her representative. That distinction highlights a key nuance in today’s AI debates: using AI as a compositional tool is often treated differently from using AI to simulate a person’s voice or identity.

Minnelli, 79, framed the collaboration as a way to use emerging tools without losing the core artistic intent behind performance. “I’ve always believed that music is about connection and emotional truth. What interested me here was the idea of using my voice and new tools in service of expression, not instead of it,” she said in a statement provided by ElevenLabs.

“This project respects the artist’s voice, the artist’s choices, and the artist’s ownership. I grew up watching my parents create wonderful dreams that were owned by other people. ElevenLabs makes it possible for anyone to be a creator and owner. That matters,” Minnelli added.

Garfunkel’s track, “Authorship,” takes a different approach: a spoken-word piece backed by gentle piano and the sound of falling rain. Garfunkel, 84, emphasized that technology has long been intertwined with music production and argued AI can be an extension of that evolution.

“Music has always evolved alongside technology, from microphones to multitrack recording,” he said. “What impressed me about this experience was the respect for musicianship. The human remains at the center. My voice plus the technology simply opens another door.”

Ownership and consent

The implications of “The Eleven Album” go beyond a single streaming release. The project effectively serves as a public demonstration of what “artist-approved” AI creation could look like — at a moment when the music industry is still grappling with lawsuits, licensing disputes, and backlash over unauthorized AI-generated works.

By emphasizing that artists retain full authorship and commercial rights, ElevenLabs is attempting to set itself apart from AI systems trained or deployed without transparent consent. The company’s messaging suggests it sees legal clarity and creator control as a competitive advantage, especially as unions, labels, and lawmakers increasingly scrutinize how generative models are built and commercialized.

If ElevenLabs succeeds in normalizing licensed voice models and pairing them with generative music tools, the company could become a central platform for a new kind of entertainment pipeline: one where voice, composition, and production are all shaped through the same AI ecosystem.

Others have a different view. Bandcamp just shut the door on all AI-generated music, taking a definite stance in favor of human creativity.

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