NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Chaka Khan on 24 December 2017. Chaka Khan has been played on NTS over 170 times, featured on 160 episodes and was first played on 12 December 2012.

Yvette Marie Stevens (born March 23, 1953), better known as Chaka Khan, and frequently referred to as the "Queen of Funk", is a 10-time Grammy Award winning American singer-songwriter from Chicago, Illinois who gained fame in the 1970s as the frontwoman and focal point of the funk band Rufus.

In 1964, at the age of 11, Khan formed her first musical group, the Crystalettes. While still in high…