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
Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me.
There is no perfect love - that's something I'm very realistic about.
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.
As you get older, though, you realize there are fire extinguishers. You do have an ability to control the flames.
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.
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.
If I love a song, I make it mine.
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.