Chaka Khan
Chaka Khan in 2011, photo by DFree/Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Yvette Marie Stevens
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Date of Birth: March 23, 1953
Ethnicity: African-American
Chaka Khan is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and actress.
Chaka is the daughter of Sandra Coleman and Charles Stevens. She was raised in an artistic, politically-involved household in Hyde Park, with a beatnik father. The name Chaka Adunne Aduffe Hodarhi Karifi was given to her by a Yoruba Baba in 1969.
She has two children.
Chaka’s grandmother’s name is Maude Page.
Her family is identified as Charles Stevens (father), Sandra Coleman (mother), Maude Page (grandmother) in the Dec 22 2003 issue of JET.