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
America breeds ambition and while that can be a good thing, sometimes it's not. Ambition also breeds competition and that can be a very bad thing. People become chronically preoccupied with competing and don't know when to stop. It can become unhealthy.
Everyone in my family sang, and we would always sing these songs.
I think the whole reason for my life is in there somewhere.
You know, it's just tough to get together and do work with somebody.
To me, this degree was an acknowledgment of my work in music.
Basically what we did -- I wrote poetry, he took it home and came back the next day with music to it, ... It was that simple. It took us three weeks' time to do the whole CD.
We are so similar in many ways, in that we are both so eclectic, ... And we love so many genres of music and we love to just mix stuff up.
They are in it to make money, period, ... And they are looking at their earnings at the end of a fiscal year. You, on the other hand, are the total opposite of that. You are trying to express yourself, your deepest stuff. The two really don't go together when you think about it.
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.
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
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.