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Chaka Khan
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 F…
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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.
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2025
Hodgepodge
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2025
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
Movie Self
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2025
Hollywood Squares
TV show Self
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2024
LOUDER: The Soundtrack of Change
Movie Self
- 2024
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2024
Prince and His Songs at the BBC
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2024
Mr. Nelson on the North Side
Movie Self
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2023
Chaka Khan at the BBC
Movie Self
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2022
The Jennifer Hudson Show
TV show Self
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2022
Women Who Rock
TV show Self
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2020
The One and Only Ivan
Movie Henrietta (voice)
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2020
Chaka Khan - Homecoming
Movie herself
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2019
Charlie's Angels
Movie Songs
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2019
Tamron Hall
TV show Self - Guest
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2019
Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration
Movie Self
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2019
The Masked Singer
TV show Miss Monster
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2018
Revival!
Movie Herodias
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2018
American Idol
TV show Self - Performer
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2016
VH1 Divas Holiday: Unsilent Night
Movie Self
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2015
Taraji's White Hot Holidays
TV show Self
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2015
Empire
TV show Chaka Khan
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2014
Beyond the Lights
Movie Chaka Khan
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2013
Every Woman
Movie Music
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2011
Hit Man Returns - David Foster & Friends
Movie Self
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2010
Tom Jones: In His Prime
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2010
RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked
TV show Self - Guest Judge
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2009
Celebrity Ghost Stories
TV show Self
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2009
Live from Studio Five
TV show Self
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2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV show Self - Guest
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2009
Prince: Club Nokia
Movie
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2009
RuPaul's Drag Race
TV show Self - Guest Judge
- 2008
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2007
Phineas and Ferb
TV show
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2007
Chaka Khan: Greatest Hits Live
Movie Vocals
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2007
Queens of Disco
Movie Self
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2007
The Graham Norton Show
TV show Self
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2006
100 Greatest Songs of the '80s
TV show Self
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2006
Celebrity Duets
TV show
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2005
Made in Hollywood
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2005
The Princes of Malibu
TV show Self
