Chaka Khan Says ‘If I Can Inspire Anybody to Do Themselves, I’m Happy’
was among the most emotional of the honorees at Variety’s Power of Women luncheon Friday, telling the assembled guests: “If I can inspire anybody to do themselves, fearlessly, I’m happy. God knows I have.”
Khan laughed at one point about how she was struggling to stay on course with the acceptance notes her partner-manager had helped her write, finally determining that “I’m just gonna say what I feel from my heart,” which she did, to the audience’s delight, in an extemporaneous speech that touched on everything from what she learned from the cold winters back in Chicago to meeting with cancer patients in the present day.
Khan recounted her beginnings with Rufus, when “that was a popular thing, for a black girl to be the singer in a white band. And I used to work on Rush Street in Chicago. Are you hip to Rush Street?” she asked the crowd — before addressing her mother: “I worked all the clubs and I was way underage. I was like 14, 15, sneaking out to do those things — Mom, you know that now! I must have been in maybe five or six bands before I got with Rufus, just singing around the neighborhood.
“I visit children in hospitals, little kids with cancer and drug diseases, and if you want to really get a fix on what’s going on, do that,” Khan said, adding that she was “really scared” the first time she visited one of the top hospitals for afflicted children in the South, thinking “I would want to kill myself” after sharing their pain. Instead, “these kids were bouncing off the friggin’ wall., they were so full of life.
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