Chaka Khan - Chaka

Today Marks The 47th Anniversary of Chaka Khan’s Debut Studio Album “Chaka” Originally Released on October 12, 1978.

“Chaka” is the debut solo studio album by American singer Chaka Khan released in 1978 on Warner Bros. Records.

The album peaked at #12 on the U.S. Billboard Soul LPs chart, and at #12 on the U.S. Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart.

Two songs were released as singlesl from the album, "I'm Every Woman" and "Life is a Dance".

"I'm Every Woman" peaked at #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart, #21 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and at #30 on the U.S. Billboard Disco charts. The song also peaked at #11 in the United Kingdom on their UK Singles Chart.

"Life is a Dance" reached #40 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart.

 "I'm Every Woman," has over the past three decades been re-released, remixed and covered a number of times, most notably by Whitney Houston in 1992 for the soundtrack album The Bodyguard, then featuring guest vocals by Khan herself and topping Billboard's Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.

A remix of Khan's original recording was also a Top-Ten hit in the U.K. in 1989.

The remix was included on the compilation Life is a Dance - The Remix Project, the title track of which was the second single release from the Chaka album in early 1979 (US R&B number 40).

The album also features the ballad "Roll Me Through The Rushes", never commercially released as a single but still receiving considerable airplay in 1979, as well as Khan's cover version of Stevie Wonder's "I Was Made To Love Her", re-titled "I Was Made to Love Him".

Track-listing

1. I'm Every Woman

2. Love Has Fallen on Me

3. Roll Me Through the Rushes

4. Sleep on It

5. We Got the Love" (duet with George Benson)

6. Some Love

7. A Woman in a Man's World

8. The Message in the Middle of the Bottom

9. I Was Made to Love Him

By Romie Rome for Musique Funkology ©