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Chaka Khan

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Chaka Khan
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 23
Composer
Jazz Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Chicago
Illinois
Yvette Marie Stevens
Rufus & Chaka Khan
Entertainment
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Sun
Smiles
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Painted
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Thin
Faces
Worn
Art
Fixed
Skin
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Burnt

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I want to give some positive messages and to empower some people.
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Every personal experience of my life impacts my music.
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If I love a song, I make it mine.
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There are a lot of people I would have liked to have collaborated with, and would still like to.
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I'm an extremely determined person. I'm very serious about what I do.
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But me and my sister knew all the Doris Day and Frank Sinatra songs, too.
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I have some scars... lots of internal ones. But they're all scabbed over.
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I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy Catholic upbringing and Catholicism is terrible - it's the reason there were slaves. Mass every morning at seven o'clock during Lent. It's a totally negative, man-made religion.
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The bickering and fighting and hating that women do with each other - it's going to kill us as a race of people.
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I love to sing. It's the easiest thing for me to do.
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Walking through this life really is walking through fire.
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Being a singer is a way for me to get to a platform to do more.
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If I wanted to fight to make a better world racially, I wouldn't be in the music business. You dig, if I were going to be a freedom fighter music is the wrong field.
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My mom took me to see Goldfinger. My mom took me to see To Sir, With Love.
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Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying.
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But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.
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My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.
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When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didnt go over a cliff.
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If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.
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I won't become a household word, or achieve the fame I deserve in my lifetime because of the way I look.
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