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...When he puts on songs like Chaka Khan’s ‘Like Sugar’ he knows I’m going to start dancing.” Solange Azagury-Partridge: “Being glossy takes too much time!”...
...The title track nods to the dance floor manifestos of Funkadelic, while “Pearls” echoes Chaka Khan’s majestic vocal attack....
...When he puts on songs like Chaka Khan’s “Like Sugar” he knows I’m going to start dancing. My style icon is Queen Elizabeth II, God rest her....
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...These curious tracks include a restored cover version of “Send for Me” by Atlantic Starr and a dub version of Chaka Khan’s “Some Love”....
...A change of rhythm cued the theme, with Williams’s powerful lead echoing the cover by Chaka Khan, another rhythmic shift segued the Blake original that followed....
...Dozens of artists paid tribute and Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan and Ariana Grande were among many who performed at the funeral....
...Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan and Jennifer Hudson sang, former president Bill Clinton spoke and a parade of more than 100 pink Cadillacs lined the streets....
...Chaka Khan! — fabulous is Tom Ford’s forté. It’s what he did at Gucci in the 1990s, transforming the near-bankrupt fashion house while commanding the scene with his own flashy milieu....
...She held her own on Chaka Khan’s “Ain’t Nobody”, channelled Aretha Franklin on “Respect” and toasted confidently on “Show Me Love”....
...So it’s pleasing to note that a Chaka Khan account of “My Funny Valentine” was part of the award-winning soundtrack of the 1995 Whitney Houston movie Waiting to Exhale, which featured an all African-American...
...So is the messy “slosh” routine and the selection of musical numbers, from Charlie Chaplin’s “Smile” to a rewrite of Chaka Khan’s “I’m Every Woman”....
...Washington has done session work for musicians ranging from roots-rocker Ryan Adams to soul singer Chaka Khan....
...Khan’s “Through the Fire”....
...He toured solidly in 2014 in the bands of Chaka Khan, drummer Steve Gadd and bass player Stanley Clarke....
...The second set began with trumpeter Freddie Gavita’s neat phrases setting up the Chaka Khan arrangement of “A Night in Tunisia” and included three Anderson originals alongside Monk’s “’Round Midnight”....
...Headliner Chaka Khan has lost none of her power or range, and she swooped into the upper register but here her tuning was slightly adrift....
...Papal aides later sought to clarify his remarks saying that the Pope had nothing but the deepest love and respect for all grandmothers, but that he wanted to see Europe behaving more like Chaka Khan, Goldie...
...Blige recites their names like a sacred litany: “Aretha [Franklin], Gladys [Knight], Mavis [Staples], Betty Wright, Chaka Khan . . . ” Her break came when she recorded a version of an Anita Baker song and...
...Like Chaka Khan before me, I feel for you. But I am an American homeowner – or a mortgage payer, to put it more accurately – and that means Europe’s pain might translate into my financial gain....
...The second studio-recorded CD adds Chaka Khan, on-form and uplifting violinist John-Luc Ponty and Bill Connors’ rocking guitar for an exciting fusion set, with “Armando’s Rhumba” the highlight....
...Rodgers played itchy rhythms on guitar, making it sound as if it was repeatedly saying Chaka Khan’s first name. Six musicians and a pair of female singers were with him....
...“I am free,” sang the transsexual Aerea Negrot, the pick of the vocalists, in the opening track: she illustrated her point by launching into an Olympian high note à la Chaka Khan....
...The Chieftains’ “The Times They are a-Changing” is a knockout, the rockier tracks replace rhythm with force and the finale, with Chaka Khan, Wayne Shorter, Anoushka Shankar and Chitra, is an uplifting whirling-dervish...
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