Track Listing
1. Back In The Day
2. Foolish Fool
3. One For All Time
4. Angel
5. Will You Love Me?
6. Castles Made Of Sand
7. Disrespectful - (featuring Mary J. Blige)
8. Sign 'O' The Times
9. Pack'd My Bags/You Got The Love - (featuring Tony Maiden)
10. Ladies' Man
11. You Belong To Me - (featuring Michael McDonald)
12. Hail To The Wrong
13. Super Life
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Mary J. Blige, Michael McDonald, Tony Maiden | | Producer: | Bernie Grundman, Big Jim Wright, Bobby Ross Avila, Issiah Avila, Jesse Johnson, Jimmy Jam, Matt Marrin, Pete Ganbarg, Terry Lewis | | Distributor: | Sony BMG Music (Canada) ( | | Recording Type: | Studio | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Issiah Avila, Antoinette Scruggs, Aaron Spears, Javad Day, Ronald Black, Doc Powell, Indira Khan, Jesse Johnson, Jimmy Jam, Lauren Evans, Luis Conte, Natural, Andrew Gouche, Ricky Rouse, Tony Maiden, Terry Lewis, Christopher Coleman, Bobby Ross Avila, Big Jim Wright.
Audio Mixers: Matt Marrin; Jesse Johnson; Voytek Kochanek; Richard Furch.
Chaka Khan is no stranger to reinvention. Initially known as the singer for 1970s funkateers Rufus, she went on to become a solo star, and in the '80s she enjoyed a career resurgence via the hip-hop-inflected smash "I Feel For You." In the late '90s, there was yet another chapter to the Chaka story, with an album masterminded by Prince. FUNK THIS, her first album of original material since that Prince platter, actually follows an album of jazz standards, but as the title implies it brings Khan back home to R&B. The production feels up-to-date without resorting to contemporary tropes, and still bears touches of the '70s and '80s. Alongside percolating new tunes, she reinterprets Prince's "Sign 'o' the Times" and the Carly Simon hit "You Belong to Me" with equal verve. And fear not, that unmatchable voice is still as sinuous, sexy, and soulful as ever.
Editorial Reviews
3 stars out of 5 -- [S]he has such a great voice -- juicy, airy, spunky, transported....It's also unfrayed...
Rolling Stone
| See an error? Submit a change request |
All rights reserved.
