I Feel For You – Chaka Khan (1984)

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Additional information about this, Chaka Khan vinyl art.

Chaka Khan – The Artist

Yvette Marie Stevens (born, 1953), better known by her stage name Chaka Khan 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”.[5] 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”. 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.

I Feel For You- The Song

“I Feel For You” is a song written by American musician Prince that originally appeared on his 1979 self-titled album. This is the cover version by Chaka Khan which is the most successful and best-known version. It appeared appeared on her 1984 album of the same name.  Chaka Khan’s version of “I Feel for You” featured a supporting cast including rapping from Melle Mel (of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five); guitar, drum programming, bass guitar, keyboards and arrangement by Reggie Griffin; bass synthesiser and programming by The System’s David Frank using an Oberheim DSX sequencer, which was connected to his Minimoog via CV and gate; and chromatic harmonica playing by Stevie Wonder. The song also uses vocal samples from Wonder’s song “Fingertips” (1963). The repetition of Khan’s name by Melle Mel at the beginning of the song was a mistake made by producer Arif Mardin, who then decided to keep it.

Chaka Khan – The Shape

This record has been modelled into the silhouette of Chaka Khan sporting her voluminous natural hair, which was typically styled as a big, wild Afro.

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