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Chaka Khan is the fourth solo album by American singer Chaka Khan. It was released on the Warner Bros. Records label on November 17, 1982. Khan worked with frequent collaborator Arif Mardin on the album, who would produce all the tracks on Chaka Khan .
Yvette Marie Stevens (born March 23, 1953), [1] better known by her stage name Chaka Khan (/ ˈ ʃ ɑː k ə ˈ k ɑː n / SHAH-kə KAHN), [2] is an American singer. [3] Known as the "Queen of Funk", [4] her career has spanned more than five decades beginning in the early 1970s as the lead vocalist of the funk band Rufus.
A remix of Khan's original recording was also a Top-Ten hit in the U.K. in 1989. The remix was included on the compilation Life is a Dance - The Remix Project, the title track of which was the second single release from the Chaka album in early 1979 (US R&B number 40).
American R&B/soul singer Chaka Khan has released thirteen albums during her solo career. She has released a total of 46 solo singles throughout her career. Khan has placed four albums in the top twenty of the Billboard albums chart, scored one top 10 and four additional top-40 hits (three as a featured artist) on the Billboard Hot 100.
ck was Khan's first album not to be recorded with Arif Mardin.Instead, it had, with the exception of two tracks, Russ Titelman at the helm as producer, with whom she had collaborated on hits including "Ain't Nobody" (1983), "Eye to Eye" from 1984's platinum-selling I Feel for You as well as "Tight Fit" from her previous album Destiny.
Though the remix of "I Know You, I Live You" was previously released on Life Is a Dance: The Remix Project, the other two were only available on 7" singles until the Big Break reissue. "Lover's Touch" was the B-Side of "What Cha' Gonna Do For Me" in the US, and "Only Once" was the B-Side of "We Can Work It Out."
Naughty garnered Khan her first American Music Award nomination for Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist at the 8th American Music Awards in 1981. Following the release of Naughty, Khan reunited with Rufus for the recording of 1981's Camouflage. Her third solo album, What Cha' Gonna Do for Me, followed later that same year.
The original version of "Tearin' It Up" appears on the eponymous Chaka Khan album, which remains unreleased on CD in both the United States and Europe. The Dance Classics of Chaka Khan set also features both the original 1978 version and the 1989 remix of "I'm Every Woman" (from Life is a Dance - The Remix Project ) and concludes with the 1984 ...