Chaka Khan says she wouldn’t be alive right now without Joni Mitchell. The Queen of Funk, whose real name is Yvette Marie Stevens, graced the cover of Hits Magazine‘s 2023 Black History Month issue.
For the cover story, she opened up about all the artists and influences who helped her along her journey. She had a lot of gratitude for Joni Mitchell, in particular, who she credited with “saving” her life. “Girl, let me tell you—she has saved my life on more than one occasion.
I get it when somebody says the artist becomes this soundtrack to somebody else’s life because she definitely was the one to mine,” Khan began. READ MORE: Winnie Harlow Says Her Biggest ‘Pinch Me’ Moment Is Sharing The Runway With Naomi Campbell: ‘It’s Insane’ “I’d be on a tour bus after a show and frustrated as hell, because Rufus and I, offstage, had a rather turbulent relationship,” she recalled. “They treated me like their little sister that they had to look after.
I couldn’t have company; nobody could come to my hotel room after the show, ever. They would do checks, walkthroughs, all kind of stuff.
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