
Chaka Khan
Born March 23, 1953 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Yvette Marie Stevens (born March 23, 1953), better known by her stage name Chaka Khan (/ˈʃɑːkə ˈkɑːn/ SHAH-kə KAHN), is an American singer and songwriter. Known as the "Queen of Funk", her career has spanned more than five decades beginning in the early 1970s as the lead vocalist of the funk band Rufus. With the band she recorded the notable hits "Tell Me Something Good," "Sweet Thing," "Do You Love What You Feel," and the platinum-certified "Ain't Nobody." Her debut solo album featured the number-one R&B hit "I'm Every Woman" (which became a pop hit for Whitney Houston). Khan scored another R&B charts hit with "What Cha' Gonna Do for Me" before becoming the first R&B artist to have a crossover hit featuring a rapper, with her 1984 cover of Prince's "I Feel for You." More of Khan's hits include "Through the Fire" and a 1986 collaboration with Steve Winwood that produced a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100, "Higher Love." Khan has won ten Grammy Awards.With Rufus, she achieved three gold singles, one platinum single, four gold albums, and two platinum albums. In the course of her solo career, Khan achieved three gold singles, three gold albums, and one platinum album with I Feel for You. She has also worked with Whitney Houston, Ry Cooder, Robert Palmer, Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Miles Davis, Chick Corea, Guru, Chicago, Joni Mitchell, Gladys Knight, De La Soul, Mary J. Blige, Ariana Grande, and Sia. In December 2016, Billboard magazine ranked her as the 65th most successful dance club artist of all time. She was ranked at No. 17 in VH1's original list of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll. Khan has been nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three times as a solo artist and four times as a member of Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, the first time in 2012 as a member of Rufus. In 2023, Khan was picked as an inductee in the Musical Excellence category. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chaka Khan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies

The Blues Brothers

The One and Only Ivan

SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)

Beyond the Lights

LOUDER: The Soundtrack of Change

Quincy Jones : 75th Birthday Celebration Live at Montreux

Ladies Night - Most Famous Hits

Hit Man Returns - David Foster & Friends

Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure

Hodgepodge

VH1 Divas Live 2: An Honors Concert for VH1's Save the Music

The Prince's Trust Rock Gala

Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration

Prince and His Songs at the BBC

Mr. Nelson on the North Side

Intimate Portrait: Natalie Cole

Original Up-Town Divas

Tom Jones | Duets by Invitation Only

Standing in the Shadows of Motown

Songs & Visions

An All-Star Tribute to Joni Mitchell

Stevie Wonder - Live at Wembley Stadium - London England 1989

VH1 Divas Holiday: Unsilent Night

Revival!

No Nukes

Chaka Khan at the BBC

Montreux Jazz Festival 1991

Chaka Khan: Greatest Hits Live

Miles Davis - Montreux Jazz Festival

Prince: Beautiful Strange

An Evening of Fourplay

Queens of Disco

Chaka Khan: Live At Roxy

Prince: Club Nokia
TV Shows

Saturday Night Live

RuPaul's Drag Race

The Graham Norton Show

The Jennifer Hudson Show

Top of the Pops

Dancing with the Stars

Phineas and Ferb

CBS News Sunday Morning

The Tamron Hall Show

Empire

American Idol

The Masked Singer

Intimate Portrait

Hunter

GMTV

Celebrity Ghost Stories

New York Undercover

American Idol

RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked

Today

Made in Hollywood

Hollywood Squares

Rock Concert

The Chris Rock Show

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

The Captain and Tennille

Taraji's White Hot Holidays

100 Greatest Songs of the '80s

The Princes of Malibu

VH1 Divas

Celebrity Duets

Women Who Rock

Live from Studio Five







