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Chaka Khan Delivers Tiny Desk Jam Session to Celebrate Black Music Month

NPR welcomed Chaka Khan for a career-spanning Tiny Desk performance for Black Music Month.

Mid-presentation, Khan flipped the microphone to the crowd as they sang along to “Sweet Thing” while the legend joined in for ad-libs and vocal runs. A trio of vocalists — Audrey Wheeler-Downing, Tiffany Smith, and Trina Broussard — joined Khan along with her full band, who she took a few minutes to introduce during the show. Khan closed her performance with renditions of the Grammy-winning “Ain’t Nobody” featuring a stellar solo from guitarist Rob Bacon, and “I’m Every Woman,” the track written for her by Ashford & Simpson.

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