Chaka Khan loves getting personal with her audience.
Admitting she prefers playing intimate venues because of how close she can get to the audience, she spoke out in an interview with MTV.
"I love to touch the audience. When I played Ronnie Scott's, it was so intimate, I could really reach out and physically touch people."
She also admitted that her son Damien failed to recognise her hit 'Sweet Thing' when Mary J Blige covered it 18 years later.
"I remember when my son came home from school and said, 'I just heard Sweet Thing by Mary J Blige'.
"I had to explain to him, 'Honey that's my song!'"
Despite enjoying such an expansive career, she admits she had times she considered packing it all in.
"There have been many times when I've thought... what the hell am I doing?
"Life has many faces. It's not an easy, sweet ride."
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