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CELEBRATING 50 YEARS IN MUSIC CHAKA KHAN ON FINDING PEACE AND HOW FAMILY MAKES HER HEART SING

‘I’m not nostalgic. I’m a “next” girl. This moment right now is all we own’

Her dazzling 50-year career and catalogue of hits has earnt her a place among the greatest names in music. These days, however, it’s the sound of silence that’s golden for Chaka Khan.

Swapping the hubbub of city life in Los Angeles for a tranquil corner of rural Georgia last year was “the biggest and best thing I’ve done”, the ten-time Grammy-winning Queen of Funk tells HELLO!.

“I’m communing with nature, I’ve got all this beautiful land

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