![]() ![]() Story goes that an interesting encounter with the Amazing Kreskin himself revealed that “Tell Me Something Good” from Rufus’s sophomore album Rags to Rufus would succeed beyond the bands wildest dreams. So here’s my own best of Chaka Khan & Rufus,as a funky woman making album length statements. Both as the lead singer/songwriter of the very talented band Rufus,as well as on her own working with some of the finest session players around. ![]() Aside from wishing her a happy birthday? The best way I can honor this ladies music is showcase my reviews of the albums she’s been a part of. And she certainly had no difficulty liberating her own playful sexiness. With a poetic lyrical style informed by the black American liberation end of women’s liberation. She also proudly comes at her art from a very jazzy standpoint. Rufus,Chaka solo? Whatever album I could find on CD or vinyl,I picked it up.Ĭhaka’s music is exciting yes,not to mention funky as one wants to be. Than a mid 90’s compilation of my mom’s entitled Epiphany really peaked my interest. ![]() Started out hearing her on what amounts to a musical related PSA staring James Earl Jones called Genius On The Black Side singing her first solo hit “I’m Every Woman”. As for her place in my life? It was very much the way Chaka’s voice sounds: the entire spectrum of life expressed in a physically improvisational revelry. Today Yvette Marie Stevens,known to much of the world as Chaka Khan,celebrates her 62nd year of life. ![]()
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