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Chaka Khan

June 2024

  • Chaka Khan.

    Chaka Khan review – queen of funk sounds as majestic as ever

    The peerless 71-year-old opens this year’s Meltdown festival sounding very much like the Chaka Khan of the 70s and 80s used to, and performs 50 years’ worth of potent disco, soul and jazz classics with effortless vibrancy

May 2024

  • Chaka Khan

    The Q&A
    Chaka Khan: ‘Someone said there were too many black people in our band. He put some white guys on stage with us’

    The singer on being impatient, mourning the death of the planet, and why sleep is her favourite thing

January 2024

  • Chaka Khan at Royal Festival Hall in London’s Southbank Centre.

    Chaka Khan to curate 2024’s Meltdown festival in London

    Funk and disco star promises June event series at London’s Southbank Centre will be ‘where magic of music meets the warmth of community’

November 2023

  • Queen Latifah presents inductee Missy Elliott during the 38th annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on 3 November.

    Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts Missy Elliott, Chaka Khan and DJ Kool Herc

    Kate Bush and Soul Train creator Don Cornelius also inducted, with Missy Elliott closing the ceremony with roof-shaking set

October 2023

  • Bombay Bicycle Club and Chaka Khan.

    ‘It was incredible when she said yes’: why Chaka Khan teamed up with Bombay Bicycle Club

    They are London indie stalwarts, she’s a multiple Grammy-winning great. So how on earth did the band end up duetting with the soul legend on their new album?

March 2023

  • Kate Bush on stage in 1986

    Why are women so marginalised by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?

    Courtney Love
    Barely 8% of its inductees are female. The canon-making doesn’t just reek of sexist gatekeeping, but also purposeful ignorance and hostility

February 2023

  • ‘Standing on the shoulders of the women who came before’ … (L-R) Nancy Wilson of Heart, Chaka Khan and Aimee Mann.

    Men often ignore women musicians’ stories. I’m determined to let them finally be heard

    Jessica Hopper
    Even now, female artists end up having their experience devalued or effaced. So I decided to start recording them

September 2022

  • Charles Stepney … ‘He enjoyed the freedom of not being too popular’

    ‘What he was doing was like nothing else’: the secret recordings of genius producer Charles Stepney

    The soul music visionary died in 1976 at the peak of his career. But his legacy endures – thanks to sampling, fans such as Elton John and Chaka Khan, and the efforts of his three daughters

February 2021

  • Criminal Justice Reform Organization Launch<br>NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 23: Shawn 'Jay-Z' Carter attends Criminal Justice Reform Organization Launch at Gerald W. Lynch Theater on January 23, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Shareif Ziyadat/Getty Images)

    Jay-Z, Kate Bush and Foo Fighters lead Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees

    Female-heavy list of acts aiming to be inducted this year also includes Tina Turner, Mary J Blige and Dionne Warwick

October 2019

  • SiR

    R&B star SiR: ‘I stumbled offstage and threw up before anybody could see me’

    Meet the musician who worked his way up from retail to collaborating with Stevie Wonder – and occasionally taking album launch parties too far

March 2019

  • Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration Live At The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion<br>LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 07: (L-R) Graham Nash, Charles Valentino, Joni Mitchell, Sauchuen and James Taylor perform onstage at Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration Live At The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on November 7, 2018 in Los Angeles, California.

    Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration review – heartfelt tribute to revered singer

    From Chaka Khan to James Taylor, an all-star lineup perform some of Joni Mitchell’s finest songs to mark her 75th birthday

February 2019

  • Chaka Khan arrives at the 61st annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2019, in Los Angeles.

    Chaka Khan: Hello Happiness review – a consistent sizzler

    (Diary)
  • Chaka Khan

    Chaka Khan: Hello Happiness review – funk legend gets vogueish update

    Her first album in over a decade works best when Khan’s rip-roaring diva-ness is front and centre
  • Chaka Khan, 2019

    Pop, Prince and Black Panthers: the glorious life of Chaka Khan

    The self-described ‘alpha chick’ has weathered addiction, dodgy managers and the death of Prince to remain as funky as ever. She describes how she went from gun-toting activist to teetotal vegan

October 2018

  • from left, Thom Yorke, Janet Jackson and Stevie Nicks

    Radiohead, Stevie Nicks and the Cure among 2019 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees

    The Ohio institution will select its 2019 cohort at a ceremony in Brooklyn next March

September 2018

  • Heloise Letissier, formerly known as Christine and the Queens, and now Chris.

    Christine and the Queens: ‘I’ve just discovered sex, I can’t stop yet!’

    Héloïse Letissier’s 2016 debut made her a global star. She’s spent the years since evolving her alter-ego Chris, idolising Madonna, making ‘horny’ pop, and being misunderstood in France

August 2018

  • Bestival

    Grace Jones, Ghetts and a lot of glitter: the best of Bestival 2018 – in pictures

    Take a look at the punters and performers who descended on Dorset’s Lulworth Estate for Bestival, including Idles, Songhoy Blues and Chaka Khan

May 2017

  • 20BEST

    Festivals 2017
    Grace Jones and giant confetti cannons: the 20 biggest festival moments of 2017

    From Aerosmith strut-rocking Download to Aphex Twin blowing the roof off Field Day’s new Barn stage, here are this year’s ‘were you there’ highlights

April 2017

  • Chaka Khan, soul singer. Commissioned By David Levene 26/10/07

    This much I know
    Chaka Khan: ‘I don’t have time for a man unless he can bring something big to the table, like a huge amount of money’

    The singer, 64, tells Ruth Huntman about Black Panthers days, struggles with addiction, Prince, her epitaph and giving Whitney Houston her break

November 2016

  • Jazzie B: ‘I’ve got eight shelves of records from the 80s.’

    Jazzie B’s 10 best 80s anthems: Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, Cameo and more

    The Soul II Soul leader picks his favourite songs from a pivotal decade
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