Chaka Khan Background Singers Pt 1
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- This is the first episode of Chaka and the Background singers. Drugs, fame, admiration, lights, travelling and money with one of the realest partiers ever born. Ms. Chaka Khan. I hope you enjoy this first one Babies.
*Not to say every background singer has done drugs while with Chaka; but it is a common thread seen in the first part, ending with remembering those we lost.
This Episode:
Vesta Williams, Helen Baylor, Luther Vandross, Whitney Houston,
Sean Christopher, Penny Ford, Me'lisa Morgan
RIP Whitney, Luther and Vesta and all the others talented artists in this video who may have passed
Powerhouse voices. The 1980s decade had a slew of great women R&B songstresses. As for Chaka, a musical genius and treasure.
Yes indeed
White racist music executives shut that energy down.
It seems as if you become a backup singer for Chaka Khan Chaka Khan you eventually pass away😂😂😂😂😂😂
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In order to sing back up for Chaka you better be able to SANG! That was a great video. All those great singers backing the Queen of Funk!
@AZ Haugton Lol
@AZ Haugton So fucking negative
@AaZed Not Luther Vandross - he didn't drink, smoke or do drugs. His addiction was food.
Oh wow i didn't know a lot of famous celebrities were background singers for Chaka
People keep saying Vesta sounds like Chaka but Vesta had her own sound
They have a similar timbre and tone but Vesta for sure had a unique voice!
"Congratulations".
@@AntonioJLee And so did Chaka..
Very first time I heard Vesta I thought it was Chaka.
That's why Vesta Williams had a solo career.
You must be am elite exceptional vocalist to back up for CHAKA.
Her and Aretha. If you backed up either of them you can blow!
What a legacy of beautiful artist thank you CHAKA 💋💯
Helen Baylor omg I didn't know she sang with her!
She sang Always There with Side Effect
Listen to her song Praying Grandmother. Helen Baylor 💗
And ALL OF THEM WERE HETOIN AND COKE HEADS AND STILL ARE ,THOSE WHO ARE ALIVE
@@sweetpeach3241 how do you know they're still addicted and why are you yelling?
Lord Whitney, we miss you too!!! That voice!!!
Rest in peace beautiful ones....Luther & Vesta....🌹🙏🏾🎤👑🎤🕊🌹
Take care of yourself Chaka Khan!!!!
I've been around the Music Industry for over 40 years and, I've heard so many people ask, why do so many people in the industry or affiliated, have a drug problem. Well, I was back stage, after parties, in the studio, etc. The drug dealers bring drugs to them and people would line up to get high, it's every where, back in the day and now. Now, getting to Chaka:s background singers, which she only hires singers that can sing and sound similar to her, that's because in concert, they take a lot of singing off of her. Chaka really enjoys singing, however she has been doing it for over 50 years and she gets tired. She's often said "She wish that, she could Clone herself". Take care. ❤️☮️💋
She can get cloned
Helen Baylor... incredible gospel artist
Awesome video! I always wanted to know who her background vocals were although I already knew some of them in here! Again, awesome video!
Glad you enjoyed! Thanks for the appreciation Baby.
If you ever go to see Chaka Khan live, she'll always introduce her AMAZING backup singers.
We miss u so much Luther Vandross!!!! That voice!!!
This era is still filled with good music. The music of today is not the same at all. I barely listen to the radio.
Love Chaka Khan!!! Thank you for your work for the students of LAUSD!!!!
They forgot Lisa Fisher
Baby, this is episode !....Lisa Fisher, Sandra St. Victor, and others are on the way. Thanks for showing interest but I already you handled. These singers were some of the first to be with Chaka.
@B Gill Lisa Fischer sang background for Chaka Khan on the "I Feel For You Tour". However, this video seems to be focusing on drug addiction as well as Chaka's singers, I don't think that Lisa Fischer had a drug habit - neither did her mentor Luther Vandross.
My aunt Lynn Davis was also a backup singer for Chaka. I have a picture of her, Penny, and another lady on tour with Chaka. I think it was 1988
@@sylviamaua745 I found that ironic as well... But quite honestly it would not surprise me if the other artist didn't engage in drug use . Luther's fluctuations in weight was always a mystery
The drugs ruined this tribute.. very “UNSUNG” like.. why can’t we NOT go personal?
GREETINGS NO MATTER WHAT THEIR UPS OR DOWNS WERE THEY MADE THE WORLD HAPPY. THEY SHARED THEIR GOD GIVEN GIFTS WITH HUMANITY AND SO TO THOSE GREAT SPIRITS MAY THE CREATOR EMBRACE THEM ALL WITH LOVE. AND THANKS FOR THE. GREAT TIMES. YOUR MUSIC GAVE BIRTH TO. PEACE
Last, but never least, ARETHA FRANKLIN, QUEEN OF SOUL!!! I MISS U DEARLY!!! GOD IS CALLING HOME HIS CHOIR!!!♡♡♡♡ I CAN ONLY IMAGINE THE PRAISE AND WORSHIP GOING ON IN HEAVEN RIGHT NOW!!!
Vesta sounds just like Chaka.
Out living them (all)♥️♥️♥️
Yes👀
She always has good background.
Chitown represents Hail Chaka Khan
All those excellent singers sang background for the Queen of funk, 👏
I actually thought Chaka did her own backing vocals. Great video and bravo!
In the studio she did, but remember when touring you need background singers.
She does most of her own in the studio… it’s mainly touring she needs them to back her up
@@paulcampbell2163 I thought so. Nobody can back up Chaka. That's the Queen. Great info!!!
I can't imagine if Luther's talent was lost singing back up his whole life. He is a legend.
Chaka introduced almost all her background singers to cocaine.
The music industry normalized drug use long before Chaka ever sang a note, lol.
@@nena_gz True, but Chaka was the type of addict who encouraged or demanded people use with her.
Everyone drank and the cocaine evens it out so you can drink some more. They didn't card you back then if you rolled in with the big dogs. And the first time was in the Lenox lounge, Small's Paradise that cocaine was free in a bowl at the end of the bar 🤣🤣🤣🤣. I wasn't into chemicals, but if I got a little drunk I'd hit it, to bring myself back up to sober.
@@allen6924 A lot of people used, but not "everyone." I know you didn't mean that literally, but words are important, and that "everyone" defense has been used by addicts since the year of the flood to defend drug use. Are you still taking a bit after getting too tipsy?
@@allen6924 I completely understand. Life was very different before the "Just say no to drugs" propaganda began. Back when an std was cured with a doctor's needle on Monday morning not the aids epidemic death sentence. Before addiction/rehab was a household term and most wild nights could be productive mornings at your day job thanks to cocaine. I've studied history, I listened to elders talk about it and I get it.
I am also a musician who has walked out of the recording studio when the candy bowls went around. Lost gigs and friendships over it bc I didn't get down like that. So I totally get it.
Now could I walk out on my musical shero if SHE demanded it ??? 🤦🏾🤷🏾💁🏾 I'm not gonna swear to that one, lol. Especially if it was back before drug use was a well known problem aka the 70s and 80s??? I may have used back then...
I use to love that 1 single Penny Ford released...
That song was titled "Change your wicked Ways". She was also the lead singer to SNAP "I Got The Power" in the early 90's!!!!
@@thegoose2724
Yeah, I know..loved it..👍🏽
Penny Ford sang a remake of Aretha's Daydreaming. She was amazing, but thought she disappeared. I am so glad she had other songs.
So many of them mention cocaine use and working for Chaka.....I bet them parties was hella fun and off the chain lol.
Chaka lasted longer than the Commodores
Yes she did …
VESTA WAS MY BABY RIP SISTER 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽❤❤❤❤🎤🎤🎤🎤
I'm just learning of her. I have probably heard her music.
🌹Rest in peace.🌹🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
I never knew Penny had a drug problem. Seems like everyone in Chaka’s camp has a drug problem. I wonder if they ever sat in a circle, singing pass the doobie on the left hand side 😂😂😂
Hahaha!, It was the 80’s in Hollywood. Drugs were almost a right of passage. Glad to be amongst the survivors… 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
Everyone got hi in those days! Look @ Whitney
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Love them from yrs.back...always great.
Loved this video
Vesta sounded exactly like Chaka though she did not have Chaka's range.
That part 🙌
Rip🙏🏽💞🌸💕💓🎤🎼🎼🎼
I wish it was the 80's again i miss those days so much everything was so dope !!!!!!!!
Toni Smith sounds similar to Chaka
Yes indeed rip MS Smith💖🌹
Now Chaka said that Toni lead the one closest to her vocal
Funkin for Jamaica she thought it was her singing 😂
Drugs and Chaka Khan Background Singers Pt1 should be the title....sigh. What about the singing?
I agree, sadly. It seems that cocaine was the common denominator for the females, then death
I agree. I would've liked to hear more their accomplishments, and less about the cocaine.
@@lilraisin ...Lisa Fischer, Me'lisa, Sandr St. Victor, Helen Baylor, Brendy White King, Shawn Christopher, Penny Ford, ALL those ladies and more are still alive. Vesta is dead but who and where are the other bodies you're basing such a lie on????
Who's giving cocaine to a 14 year old????
Glad I saw this video. I have never heard of Pennye Ford!
❤🌹Vesta!🌹❤
🌺🦋Whitney! 🦋🌺
I always thought Vesta and M lissa sounded like Chaka
Omg! Shut up I love Vesta Williams. She’s the bomb. I never knew she sang backup with Chaka!
There's no way you loved Vesta and not know she sanged background for Chaka... impossible!
WOW...One Love Fam...
There’s a trend here.
It was the 70’s and 80’s drug was a given not a “trend” unique to CK’s background singers, unfortunately that fact is overshadowed by the sensational aspect of their drug use.
Wow. An opportunity truly wasted and lives unfairly distorted. Was this an examination of drug use or CK background singing? What did they learn? How did singing with CK help their careers? We always go for the lowest denominator.
😂😂😂😂 Chaka hooked everybody on that White 🤍 Horse.... Damn shame 😢😢😢
Your post vid is amazing! I just wish the volume/sound quality was more balanced and higher.
Another singer that sounds like Chaka Khan is a lady by the name of Val Young, she came out in the late 80’s, but she only brought out one album and after that you didn’t hear anything from her anymore. But she had a great voice.
I've mainly known of Val Young for her work with 2Pac. She sang the hook on "To Live & Die In L.A."
All of them got high ?
Yeap.. unfortunately..
It was the 70s everyone did it
RIP Vesta
I guess the lesson here is don’t sing background vocals for Chaka!
so, do we need to know about this shit.
IMO an entertainer be they Actors, Singers or Rappers are simply paid to be Bipolar whilst being dysfunctional in reality.
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