# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chaka-khan
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:59:37.023Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chaka-khan"
name: "Chaka Khan"
slug: "chaka-khan"
description: "Yvette Marie Stevens, 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 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\". 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\". 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\"."
tagline: "American singer (born 1953)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chaka_Khan_in_Chris_March_01_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1953-03-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           76.69
  momentum:             0
  historical:           27.76252
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     95
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 584000
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/chakakhan"
    handle:    "chakakhan"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/chakaikhan/"
    handle:    "chakaikhan"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://chakakhan.com/"
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/ChakaKhan"
    handle:    "ChakaKhan"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0451193/"
    handle:    "nm0451193"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/6mQfAAqZGBzIfrmlZCeaYT"
    handle:    "6mQfAAqZGBzIfrmlZCeaYT"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC00tcG7sRJnw4AGekVp8fPg"
    handle:    "@chakakhan"
    followers: 584000
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7_%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "شاكا خان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شاكا كان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chaka Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "چاکا کان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Шака Кан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chaka Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaka_Khan"
    title: "Chaka Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaka_Khan"
    title: "Chaka Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaka_Khan"
    title: "Chaka Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CF%83%CE%AC%CE%BA%CE%B1_%CE%9A%CE%B1%CE%BD"
    title: "Τσάκα Καν"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaka_Khan"
    title: "Chaka Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaka_Khan"
    title: "Chaka Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaka_Khan"
    title: "Chaka Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaka_Khan"
    title: "Chaka Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شاکا کان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chaka Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaka_Khan"
    title: "Chaka Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaka_Khan"
    title: "Chaka Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaka_Khan"
    title: "Chaka Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A6'%D7%90%D7%A7%D7%94_%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%9F"
    title: "צ'אקה קאן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaka_Khan"
    title: "Chaka Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%89%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%A1_%D4%BF%D5%A1%D5%B6"
    title: "Չակա Կան"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaka_Khan"
    title: "Chaka Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaka_Khan"
    title: "Chaka Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaka_Khan"
    title: "Chaka Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chaka_Khan"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/900e9144-019d-4043-86cb-ec0e127c39d0"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q229498"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/122099"
    title: "Chaka Khan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump