Chaka Khan

Chaka’s first solo album produced by Arif Mardin. Contains the hitsingle ‘I’m Every Woman’. Contributions on this album by George Benson and Phil Upchurch. Musicians like Steve Ferrone on drums, Hamish Stuart on guitar and Richard Tee on (electric) piano make the music swingable.

Produced by Arif Mardin, and engineered by Lew Hahn and Micheal O’Reilly. Chaka’s voice is strong and pure and Ken Bichel’s synthesizer sound fits perfectly. Credits to Micheal Brecker playing the sax solo on two songs.Other big names who contributed were Luther Vandross, Marcus Miller and Whitney Houston.

Produced by Arif Mardin and for the most part recorded in Montreux, Switzerland. This album contains the hit single ‘What Cha’Gonna Do For Me’ and other strong pieces of music. Chaka and Arif updated the lyrics to ‘Night In Tunesia’ by Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) and let Herbie Hancock do the complex melody and chords, mixed together with Charlie Parker’s alto sax. I also want to mention Jerry Hey who played the trumpet on ‘I Know You..’ and ‘We Got Each Other’ and David Richards who created a special synth sound on ‘Heed The Warning’. Just listen!

Produced by Arif Mardin. This album starts with the smashing hit single ‘Tearin’ It Up’, with beautiful synthesizer work by Robbie Buchanan. Very special is the ‘Bebop Medley’, where she chose famous bebop/jazz songs by one of the world’s best musicians and wrote special lyrics.

Produced by Lenny White. This album was a special project: “a door for the youth to our musical heritage in jazz”, Chaka said. Some of the world’s greatest jazz musicians are on this record. All playing that old jazzy stuff from the late fifties.

Produced by Arif Mardin. Four hit singles were taken from the album. Including the beautiful ballad ‘Through The Fire’ and the album title track ‘I Feel For You’ with rap by Grandmaster Melle Mel and Stevie Wonder on Harmonica. They had John Robie edit the song ‘My Love Is Alive’ – just listen!

Produced by Arif Mardin. Half of the album was released as a remix. The first hit single ‘Love Of A Lifetime’ was co-produced with Green Gartside (Scritty Politty) and left his mark on the music. Courtesy of John Mahoney on ‘Coltrane Dreams’, where he created drums, percussion and bass by processing Chaka’s voice samples through a synclavier.

The album is produced by Russ Titelman and includes the hit single ‘It’s My Party’. Most songs have a slow tempo, like the two beautiful jazz songs, and two songs written by Prince.

Produced by Benny Medina and David Shaw. All hit single songs remixed in different 80’s house and techno styles. ‘I’m Every Woman’ was a big hit again!

Produced by Benny Medina, Steve Margo and Chaka Khan. The album reached the top ten in the Billboard R&B charts and had two single in the top ten of the R&B singles charts. Chaka co-wrote half of the album songs including the album title track.

Produced by Chaka Khan and Prince. There are many great songs on this album, mainly influenced by Prince, and co-written by Chaka Khan.

Produced and arranged by Eve Nelson. An album of big band songs from the good old days, with excellent vocals by Chaka Khan and accompanied by the London Symphonic Orchestra.

Produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. An album full of classic funky covers and some new songs co-written by Chaka Khan, with a voice that is strong, funky and raw as ever. Contributions from Mary J. Blige, Michael McDonald and Rufus guitarist Tony Maiden. ‘Funk This’ sounds like a jam session of classic funk

Co-produced by David “Switch” Taylor and Sarah Taylor, who created music with mean beats, plump grooves and booty-scooting basslines, all arranged with a polished maximalism. Chaka’s voice is still very strong and better than ever. The unexpected 7 songs album project was only recorded in two-weeks.

A great soul and R&B song. This is Chaka’s first single with the SoNo Recording Group (SRG-ILS), and not part of an album