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CHAKA KHAN Through The Fire

1,411 views · Published 1 June 2015 · 4:20 · Indexed 25 October 2026

Channel: daveinprogress3 · 2015 · Howto & Style

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A thirty year old release - as i post this 1st June, 2015. It is the mighty & freakishly talented Chaka Khan and her beautiful rendition of the David Foster, Tom Keane and the legendary Cynthia Weil song 'Through The Fire'. This mid tempo ballad is in such safe hands' but moreover Chaka gives the track such power and soul - quintessential ingredients every time the lady walks into a recording studio. 

Chaka Khan's music has, for me, been of such solace, delight, wisdom and joy over 4 decades. Her 'I feel for you' LP from which this Grammy nominated tune is lifted,  triggered a life long affection for the singer with the amazingly textured and powerful tones. There is simply no-one like Chaka Khan. She may be the recepient of 10 Grammy awards, but is has always felt to me; like Aretha Franklin is the Queen of Soul, with  Natalie Cole and then Whitney Houston grabbing the baton into the 80's and 80's; and Beyonce and Rihanna into the new millennium with Chaka Khan somehow missing from the title the 'Queen of.....'

Chaka Khan's career has been long, at times tumultuous and with tremendous highs and of course the requisite showbiz lows, but above all of it is that voice! Many others have recorded this song, but none have the magic that Chaka Khan has.

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