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Chaka Khan

1953 - Today

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Yvette Marie Stevens (born March 23, 1953), better known by her stage name Chaka Khan ( SHAH-kə KAHN), is an American singer. 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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chaka Khan has received more than 8,300,942 page views. Her biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Chaka Khan is the 615th most popular musician (up from 857th in 2019), the 3,209th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,291st in 2019) and the 190th most popular American Musician.

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  • 8.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Chaka Khan ranks 615 out of 2,662Before her are Frank Beard, Mark Hollis, Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Enrico Toselli, GG Allin, and Michael Stipe. After her are Kenny Clarke, Robert Palmer, Horace Silver, Peter Cetera, Ric Ocasek, and Robert Smith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Chaka Khan ranks 114Before her are Robert Davi, Christoph Daum, Tico Torres, Michael J. Sandel, Massimo Troisi, and Jean-Bertrand Aristide. After her are Steve Bannon, Teresa Orlowski, Wim Mertens, Masami Kurumada, William Petersen, and Tito Jackson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Chaka Khan ranks 3,209 out of 18,182Before her are Nicholas Hammond (1950), Gene Barry (1919), Howard Fast (1914), Christina Ricci (1980), Mimsy Farmer (1945), and Sarah Paulson (1974). After her are David Ogden Stiers (1942), Sun Ra (1914), Kenny Clarke (1914), Steve Bannon (1953), Rainn Wilson (1966), and Erik Estrada (1949).

Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Chaka Khan ranks 190Before her are Dick Dale (1937), Jeff Buckley (1966), Marty Friedman (1962), Frank Beard (1949), GG Allin (1956), and Michael Stipe (1960). After her are Kenny Clarke (1914), Horace Silver (1928), Peter Cetera (1944), Ric Ocasek (1949), Suzanne Vega (1959), and Max Roach (1924).

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