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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 23, 1953
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
- Yvette Marie Stevens
Chaka Khan
0.6 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
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Self (archive footage)
Hodgepodge
2025
6.9
Self
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
2025
5.0
Self
Hollywood Squares
2025
7.7
Self
LOUDER: The Soundtrack of Change
2024
🎬
0.0
Self
American Music Awards 50th Anniversary Special
2024
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Prince and His Songs at the BBC
2024
8.0
Self
Chaka Khan at the BBC
2023
5.6
Self
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
9.0
Self
Women Who Rock
2022
6.5
Self
Mr. Nelson on the North Side
2021
Credits
Hodgepodge
as Self (archive footage)
2025
0.0
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
as Self
2025
6.9
Hollywood Squares
as Self
2025
5.0
LOUDER: The Soundtrack of Change
as Self
2024
7.7
🎬
American Music Awards 50th Anniversary Special
as Self
2024
0.0
Prince and His Songs at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)
2024
0.0
Chaka Khan at the BBC
as Self
2023
8.0
The Jennifer Hudson Show
as Self
2022
5.6
Women Who Rock
as Self
2022
9.0
Mr. Nelson on the North Side
as Self
2021
6.5
The One and Only Ivan
as Henrietta (voice)
2020
7.4
Chaka Khan - Homecoming
as herself
2020
9.0
Tamron Hall
as Self - Guest
2019
4.9
Revival!
as Herodias
2019
0.0
Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration
as Self
2019
7.5
The Masked Singer
as Miss Monster
2019
7.7
The Masked Singer
as Miss Monster (archive footage)
2019
7.7
Taraji's White Hot Holiday Special
as Self
2017
8.4
VH1 Divas Holiday: Unsilent Night
as Self
2016
0.0
Taraji's White Hot Holidays
as Self
2015
10.0
Beyond the Lights
as Chaka Khan
2014
6.8
Hit Man Returns - David Foster & Friends
as Self
2011
6.6
🎬
Tom Jones: In His Prime
as Self (archive footage)
2010
0.0
Phineas and Ferb: Summer Belongs to You!
as Chaka Khan (voice)
2010
7.9
RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked
as Self - Guest Judge
2010
6.1
Celebrity Ghost Stories
as Self
2009
7.3
Live from Studio Five
as Self
2009
3.7
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
Prince: Club Nokia
2009
8.0
RuPaul's Drag Race
as Self - Guest Judge
2009
7.5
Quincy Jones : 75th Birthday Celebration Live at Montreux
as Self
2008
6.2
Phineas and Ferb
2007
7.9
Chaka Khan: Greatest Hits Live
as Vocals
2007
6.0
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
100 Greatest Songs of the '80s
as Self
2006
0.0
Celebrity Duets
2006
0.0
Made in Hollywood
as Self
2005
4.7
The Princes of Malibu
as Self
2005
2.0
Dancing with the Stars
as Self - Contestant
2005
6.1
🎬
The Tony Danza Show
as Self
2004
6.1
Original Up-Town Divas
as Self (archive footage)
2004
0.0
Ladies Night - Most Famous Hits
as Self (archive footage)
2003
0.0
Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure
as Marla (voice)
2002
1.0
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
as Herself
2002
6.9
Tom Jones | Duets by Invitation Only
as Self
2001
8.5
The Jazz Channel Presents Chaka Khan
2000
0.0
An All-Star Tribute to Joni Mitchell
as Self
2000
0.0
VH1 Divas Live 2: An Honors Concert for VH1's Save the Music
as Self - Performer
1999
6.3
Intimate Portrait: Natalie Cole
as Self
1999
5.0
Prince: Beautiful Strange
as Self
1998
0.0
VH1 Divas
1998
7.5
Songs & Visions
as Self
1997
0.0
The Chris Rock Show
1997
4.2
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self
1996
3.9
Star Search
1995
6.8
New York Undercover
1994
7.2
An Evening of Fourplay
as Herself - Vocals
1993
7.0
Intimate Portrait
as Self
1993
4.5
GMTV
as Self
1993
5.6
Montreux Jazz Festival 1991
1991
0.0
The Prince's Trust Rock Gala
as Self (archive footage)
1990
0.0
Miles Davis - Montreux Jazz Festival
1989
0.0
Stevie Wonder - Live at Wembley Stadium - London England 1989
as Self
1989
10.0
Hunter
as Miss Gina B
1984
7.1
No Nukes
as Self
1980
0.0
The Blues Brothers
as Choir Soloist
1980
7.7
CBS News Sunday Morning
as Self
1979
6.9
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Musical Guest
1975
7.0
Rock Concert
as Self
1973
8.0
Top of the Pops
as Self
1964
6.6
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
Today
as Self
1952
5.6