Cast & creator
Chaka Khan
Best known for Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Late Show with David Letterman
Yvette Marie Stevens (born March 23, 1953), better known by her stage name Chaka Khan (/ˈʃɑːkə ˈkɑːn/ SHAH-kə KAHN), 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." 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." Khan has won ten Grammy Awards.With Rufus, she achieved three gold singles, one platinum single, four gold albums, and two platinum albums. In the course of her solo career, Khan achieved three gold singles, three gold albums, and one platinum album with I Feel for You. 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. In December 2016, Billboard magazine ranked her as the 65th most successful dance club artist of all time. She was ranked at No. 17 in VH1's original list of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll. Khan has been nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three times as a solo artist and four times as a member of Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, the first time in 2012 as a member of Rufus. In 2023, Khan was picked as an inductee in the Musical Excellence category. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chaka Khan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also known as: Yvette Marie Stevens, Rufus
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1952–2025 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (81)
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Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
2009
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
Late Show with David Letterman
Self - Musical Guest
1993
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
Saturday Night Live
Self - Musical Guest
1975
The Graham Norton Show
Self
2007
RuPaul's Drag Race
Self - Guest Judge
2009
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Self
2022
Top of the Pops
Self
1964
Dancing with the Stars
Self - Contestant
2005
Phineas and Ferb
2007
CBS News Sunday Morning
Self
1979
The Tamron Hall Show
Self - Guest
2019
American Idol
Self - Performer
2002
Empire
Chaka Khan
2015
The Masked Singer
Miss Monster
2019The Masked Singer
Miss Monster (archive footage)
2019
Intimate Portrait
Self
1993The Tony Danza Show
Self
2004
GMTV
Self
1993
Hunter
Miss Gina B
1984
American Idol
Self - Performer
2018
RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked
Self - Guest Judge
2010
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Self
2009
New York Undercover
1994
Today
Self
1952
Made in Hollywood
Self
2005
Hollywood Squares
Self
2025
Rock Concert
Self
1973
The Chris Rock Show
1997
Charlie's Angels
Songs
2019
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self
1996
The Blues Brothers
Choir Soloist
1980
The Captain and Tennille
Self - Musical Guest
1976
The One and Only Ivan
Henrietta (voice)
2020
Beyond the Lights
Chaka Khan
2014
Taraji's White Hot Holidays
Self
2015
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
Self
2025
The Princes of Malibu
Self
2005
100 Greatest Songs of the '80s
Self
2006
VH1 Divas
1998
Women Who Rock
Self
2022
LOUDER: The Soundtrack of Change
Self
2024
Celebrity Duets
2006
Live from Studio Five
Self
2009
Hodgepodge
Self (archive footage)
2025
Mr. Nelson on the North Side
Self
2024
Quincy Jones : 75th Birthday Celebration Live at Montreux
Self
2008
Ladies Night - Most Famous Hits
Self (archive footage)
2003
Revival!
Herodias
2018
Hit Man Returns - David Foster & Friends
Self
2011
Star Search
1995
Intimate Portrait: Natalie Cole
Self
1999
VH1 Divas Live 2: An Honors Concert for VH1's Save the Music
Self - Performer
1999
Tom Jones | Duets by Invitation Only
Self
2001
The Prince's Trust Rock Gala
Self (archive footage)
1990
VH1 Divas Holiday: Unsilent Night
Self
2016
Songs & Visions
Self
1997American Music Awards 50th Anniversary Special
Self
2024
Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure
Marla (voice)
2002
Original Up-Town Divas
Self (archive footage)
2004
Prince and His Songs at the BBC
Self (archive footage)
2024
Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration
Self
2019
Chaka Khan at the BBC
Self
2023
Miles Davis - Montreux Jazz Festival
1989
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
Self
2002
Stevie Wonder - Live at Wembley Stadium - London England 1989
Self
1989
Chaka Khan: Greatest Hits Live
Vocals
2007
Montreux Jazz Festival 1991
Self
1991Tom Jones: In His Prime
Self (archive footage)
2010
An All-Star Tribute to Joni Mitchell
Self
2000
Prince: Beautiful Strange
Self
1998
An Evening of Fourplay
Herself - Vocals
1993
No Nukes
Self
1980
Queens of Disco
Self
2007
Chaka Khan: Live At Roxy
1981
Prince: Club Nokia
2009
Every Woman
Music
2013
The Jazz Channel Presents Chaka Khan
2000
Great Women Singers of the 20th Century: Chaka Khan
Self
2005
Chaka Khan - Homecoming
herself
2020