Chaka Khan
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"Chaka Khan" is an American singer-songwriter whose career has spanned four decades, beginning in the 1970's as the Frontman/frontwoman and focal point of the funk band Rufus (band)/Rufus. Often dubbed the "Queen of Funk", Khan has won ten Grammys and has sold an estimated 70 million records worldwide.

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They are in it to make money, period, ... And they are looking at their earnings at the end of a fiscal year. You, on the other hand, are the total opposite of that. You are trying to express yourself, your deepest stuff. The two really don't go together when you think about it.

We are so similar in many ways, in that we are both so eclectic, ... And we love so many genres of music and we love to just mix stuff up.

Basically what we did -- I wrote poetry, he took it home and came back the next day with music to it, ... It was that simple. It took us three weeks' time to do the whole CD.