Chaka Khan

Known for ActingBorn 1953-03-23 (age 73)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Taraji's White Hot Holidays

Celebrity Duets

The Jazz Channel Presents Chaka Khan

Stevie Wonder - Live at Wembley Stadium - London England 1989

No Nukes

Women Who Rock

Chaka Khan - Homecoming

Taraji's White Hot Holiday Special

Tom Jones | Duets by Invitation Only

Chaka Khan at the BBC

Prince: Club Nokia

Rock Concert

An All-Star Tribute to Joni Mitchell

Phineas and Ferb

An Evening of Fourplay

Phineas and Ferb: Summer Belongs to You!

The Masked Singer

Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration

LOUDER: The Soundtrack of Change

The One and Only Ivan

RuPaul's Drag Race

The Blues Brothers

VH1 Divas

Celebrity Ghost Stories

Empire

The Graham Norton Show

New York Undercover

SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Beyond the Lights

Hunter

Standing in the Shadows of Motown

American Idol

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

CBS News Sunday Morning

Star Search

The Captain and Tennille

Hit Man Returns - David Foster & Friends

Saturday Night Live

Charlie's Angels

The Tony Danza Show

Late Show with David Letterman

Top of the Pops

Quincy Jones : 75th Birthday Celebration Live at Montreux

Dancing with the Stars

Chaka Khan: Greatest Hits Live

RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked

Intimate Portrait: Natalie Cole