Chaka Khan
Chaka Khan
Yvette Marie Stevens, better known by her stage name Chaka Khan, is an American singer whose career has spanned four decades, beginning in the 1970s as the frontwoman and focal point of the funk band Rufus. Widely known as the Queen of Funk, Khan has won ten Grammys and has sold an estimated 70 million records worldwide. Khan was ranked at number 17 in VH1's original list of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll. In 2015, she was...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionR&B Singer
Date of Birth23 March 1953
CityNaval Station, IL
CountryUnited States of America
One of the album's songs features Mary J. Blige, but I don't want to talk too much about it yet. I think you will hear the music that's been playing in my head when it comes out
If I love a song, I make it mine.
I've been collaborating with Ira Schickman on some songs, and there will be many other, great musicians involved.
But me and my sister knew all the Doris Day and Frank Sinatra songs, too.
A song is not going to change this damn world. Instead of making people mad about this shitty situation, it's going to make everybody happy. It's a false thing. It's like a lullaby as opposed to a gun. People need to be slapped into reality and music just doesn't do that.
If we could just see how related we all are, how we're really all in the same place.
Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me.
Walking through this life really is walking through fire.
I'm a woman and I'm a backbone...everybody needs one.
Spirituality has played an amazing part. Its been paramount in my life.
It sacrifices people's lives and their essences at the drop of a dimeI had a manager once say to me, You know you're worth more money dead than alive.
If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.
I love to sing. It's the easiest thing for me to do.
Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying.