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."
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.
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Filmography (Movies)
Hodgepodge
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Release Date:30/04/2025
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
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Release Date:23/01/2025
LOUDER: The Soundtrack of Change
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Release Date:16/10/2024
American Music Awards 50th Anniversary Special
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Release Date:06/10/2024
Prince and His Songs at the BBC
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Release Date:06/07/2024
Chaka Khan at the BBC
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Release Date:18/03/2023
Mr. Nelson on the North Side
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Release Date:25/09/2021
The One and Only Ivan
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Release Date:21/08/2020
Chaka Khan - Homecoming
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Release Date:03/07/2020
Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration
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Release Date:07/02/2019
Revival!
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Release Date:07/12/2018
Taraji's White Hot Holiday Special
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Release Date:14/12/2017
VH1 Divas Holiday: Unsilent Night
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Release Date:05/12/2016
Beyond the Lights
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Release Date:14/11/2014
Hit Man Returns - David Foster & Friends
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Release Date:11/03/2011
Tom Jones: In His Prime
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Release Date:04/10/2010
Phineas and Ferb: Summer Belongs to You!
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Release Date:02/08/2010
Prince: Club Nokia
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Release Date:28/03/2009
Quincy Jones : 75th Birthday Celebration Live at Montreux
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Release Date:14/07/2008
Chaka Khan: Greatest Hits Live
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Release Date:06/03/2007
Original Up-Town Divas
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Release Date:24/05/2004
Ladies Night - Most Famous Hits
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Release Date:01/01/2003
Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure
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Release Date:15/12/2002
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
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Release Date:11/09/2002
Tom Jones | Duets by Invitation Only
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Release Date:01/01/2001
The Jazz Channel Presents Chaka Khan
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Release Date:17/10/2000
An All-Star Tribute to Joni Mitchell
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Release Date:16/04/2000
VH1 Divas Live 2: An Honors Concert for VH1's Save the Music
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Release Date:13/04/1999
Intimate Portrait: Natalie Cole
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Release Date:08/01/1999
Prince: Beautiful Strange
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Release Date:28/08/1998
Songs & Visions
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Release Date:16/08/1997
An Evening of Fourplay
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Montreux Jazz Festival 1991
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The Prince's Trust Rock Gala
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Miles Davis - Montreux Jazz Festival
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Stevie Wonder - Live at Wembley Stadium - London England 1989
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No Nukes
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The Blues Brothers
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Release Date:16/06/1980
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Hollywood Squares
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The Jennifer Hudson Show
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Women Who Rock
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Tamron Hall
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The Masked Singer
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The Masked Singer
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Taraji's White Hot Holidays
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RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked
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Celebrity Ghost Stories
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Live from Studio Five
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Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
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RuPaul's Drag Race
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Phineas and Ferb
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The Graham Norton Show
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100 Greatest Songs of the '80s
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Celebrity Duets
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Made in Hollywood
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The Princes of Malibu
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Dancing with the Stars
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The Tony Danza Show
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VH1 Divas
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The Chris Rock Show
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The Rosie O'Donnell Show
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Star Search
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New York Undercover
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Intimate Portrait
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GMTV
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Hunter
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CBS News Sunday Morning
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The Captain and Tennille
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Saturday Night Live
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Top of the Pops
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The Mike Douglas Show
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Today
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