Yvette Marie Stevens, better known by her stage name Chaka Khan, is an American singer who has her career spanned more than five decades, beginning in the 1970s as the lead vocalist of the funk band Rufus.
Chaka is known as the “Queen of Funk”, and she was the first R&B artist to have a crossover hit featuring a rapper, with “I Feel for You” in 1984. Khan has won ten Grammy Awards and has sold an estimated 70 million records worldwide.
Chaka has been active in the music world since 1960 and was born on March 23, 1953Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
What does Chaka mean in Tagalog?
Tagalog is an Austronesian language spoken in Luzon and neighboring islands and forms the basis of the standardized national language of the Philippines (Filipino). Its vocabulary has been much influenced by Spanish and English, and to some extent by Chinese, Sanskrit, Tamil, and Malay.
The Philippines have a gay language, in which “Chaka” means ugly.
