CHAKA KHAN / Mama I Want To Sing ----- LIVE n LONDON !

[TrumpetSAE]

I can hear THE CLARK SISTERS ALL UP IN HER VOICE...especially with that call back at the end with the little girl...LOL...and also some ARETHA FRANKLIN!...thanks for this post.

[BLAQUEMUSCLE]

@TrumpetSAE U hear ARETHA but CHAKA came along B4 the CLARK SISTERS !

[DigitalDezinesCEO]

@BLAQUEMUSCLE They were around on the church scene back then. 

[BLAQUEMUSCLE]

@DigitalDezinesCEO AND?

[DigitalDezinesCEO]

@TrumpetSAE You are absolutely right! Chaka evens sings some of Karen Clark Sheards songs.

[IsaiahRaymondDyer09]

7.29-9.52 I remember waiting eagerly to see this part EVERY TIME i went to see the show! RAGING singing! My Gawd!! lol

[pwcfuster]

I worked on this show at the Cambridge Theatre in London. We're talking about (wait, let me think)....1995, if I'm not wrong (many years have passed). I remember the rehearsals when Chaka would grab you and sing to you as you passed by the auditorium. Hearing this number with the DIVA (I don;t say it lightly) at a distance of 3 feet was a life-changing experience. God bless her and the soul and spirit of Doris Troy who was also a phenomenal lady and who lives on in my memory.

[BlaxxBchr]

All this reminiscing and nobody will say what year this song was recorded. Chaka sounds young here. In middle age her voice became more ragged and "steely" . On this post she is a vocal "goddess" doing things that seem almost iimpossible. Wow!

[BLAQUEMUSCLE]

@BlaxxBchr This is 1995 CHAKA KHAN was 42 years old !!!!! Now what were you

saying about her VOICE !

[BlaxxBchr]

@BLAQUEMUSCLE Chaka defies imagination. Every singer I know who sings as powerfully as Chaka has at some point damaged their voice. No soul singer has sung so well for so long. I always vascillate between Mariah and Chaka as my favorite singer. Chaka has a better chest register with more range in that register, but Mariah has major falsetto and used to have a great chest voice. No other singers come close to this dynamic duo.

[JwahAmore31]

@BlaxxBchr Check out Jill Scott LIVE and Rachelle Ferrel (LIVE, or other wise)!!!! You may also like Lalah Hathaway, who is also off the hook, live!!! Also, the Clark Sister. Now be blessed and enjoy your ability (blessing) to hear such AWESOME voices! Cheers, love! - J

[Jfmwsusidmc]

Peeps i was in the band as the drummer, with luke smith, mike brown, freddie thompson and Basil Meade, and the best of the UK gospel Singers as the choir.. one of the ultimate best times of my musical life.. Praise God!

[IsaiahRaymondDyer09]

@Jfmwsusidmc Yessah I remember these days! I watched the play approximately 10 times!!!

[TheSophiemariemusic]

@IsaiahRaymondDyer09 Innit doh!...I watched this first on my 14th birthday...wat a way time flie ee?? lool

[IsaiahRaymondDyer09]

@TheSophiemariemusic Sophie it's SCARY how time has flown!! I auditioned for the show LOL (Errrr I didn't get thru lol but Amen Anyhow lol) Great show, great memories!

[Dpurpledove]

Chaka is one of my all time favs. That girl sangs! lol

[snuka12000]

I like it!

[mellofello7]

I saw her in this show in London....it was wild experiencing her voice in the medium of a theatrical show, sort of like when I saw Patti LaBelle in ARMS TOO SHORT.

[cmbutterbell]

You are so lucky! I was going to see her in London too but I was so ill I couldn't go and had to give my ticket to a friend. She came back raving about it with loads of my other friends and I felt even worse! I wanted to see the show so much but was in such a bad way. It was ona long time ago and I still have visions of how good it must have been. I guess it was just not meant to be.

[briankeitht]

I saw her in this musical in London. Twice. She was great.

[bemaniac2]

she sounds a lot like Aretha here actually!

[Picture111]

SANG Chaka!

[iluvmyboba]

Thank You GOD!!!!!!!!!

For loving us some much to bless us with the GIFT of music!!!!!!

[dorindaclarkcole]

Chaka done gave me The Spirit. I can't leave this song alone yet. I gotta hear it again. You wanted to suck me into Chaka's web with these songs didnt you BLAQUEMUSCLE? lol.

[BLAQUEMUSCLE]

lol

[dorindaclarkcole]

I wanna know who was the little girl snappin alongside Chaka. Girl betta sing!

[mellofello7]

Stacey Francis....she was young but she was most definitely a WOMAN, not a little girl.

[dorindaclarkcole]

My Bad.

[cmelmoneyman]

its so funny when people say chaka cant do difficult run patterns. Next time some1 says that i'll jus show em this!

[cmelmoneyman]

she sounds like she almost holdin back power wise. but yet it still sounds very powerful and fierce.

[mrsshannonchanel24]

WOW!!! Amazing! Chaka took me to church!

[creamenron]

Thats right only one CHAKA KAHN MY GIRL1

[MusixMan81]

7:08 - 9:50 Was like the Clark Sister.

[MusixMan81]

Chaka is one I could listen to ALL DAY LONG EVERYDAY.

'A House Is Not A Home by MusixMan81' Chech it out. Tell me what you think.

[creamenron]

she blew this out the water some parts sounded like old aretha franklin

[MusixMan81]

There is only one CHAKA!!! lol

[lokijordan]

YES! She is the one and only true successor to Aretha. As much as I love Natalie Cole, she's something else. CK is "The One."

[NaWaOOOO]

@lokijordan Sorry, but I wouldn't consider Chaka a successor to Aretha at all. Chaka really stands alone.  Chaka is still able to do what she did vocally in her 20s, 30s, and 40s. Now that she's 57 years old, she's come quite a different road than Aretha.

[rlbrannon2]

Thank you i've been looking everywhere for this song

[holyrollersoldier]

Sang Chaka!!!

[CycoMyco562]

Praise Him Chaka

[paddeyOmalley]

thats why she's the diva of ULTIMATE versatility!!! a true songstress GENIUS!!! she can sang just about anythang!!!! AWESOME!!!

[FunkYluvsJazZ]

That voice can take anyone to church anytime! 10*s!  =)

[paddeyOmalley]

true that!!