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Chaka Khan: uno sguardo ammaliante, magnetico. Un sorriso contagioso, che trasmette energia e voglia di vivere. Una monumentale presenza scenica. Una voce superba, potente, espressiva, con una estensione di cinque ottave. Qualcuno dice: l'erede di Aretha Franklin. Una vita contrassegnata dagli eccessi, dall'abuso di droga e alcol, ma anche dall'impegno civile: dalla militanza, ancora giovanissima, nelle Black Panthers, all'adozione di un nome africano, alla più recente istituzione di una fondazione a sua nome per aiutare madri in difficoltà e bambini autistici.
"What Cha' Gonna Do For Me", del 1981, è un intrigante mix di soul, R&B, funk e discomusic, prodotto da Arif Mardin, arrangiato e suonato dai migliori sessionman di quegli anni. Gli arrangiamenti riportano al soul-funk di lusso di fine anni '70, con chitarre ritmiche a profusione, coretti, muri sonori innalzati dalla sezione fiati (Michael e Randy Brecker, nientemeno), uptempo beat nelle mani del batterista Steve Ferrone, mentre al basso troviamo il talentuoso Anthony Jackson. Ospiti illustri come Hiram Bullock, e nella rilettura del classico jazz "A Night In Tunisia" anche il vecchio Dizzie Gillespie ed Herbie Hancock, autore di un pregevole assolo di synth. Impossibile rimanere fermi davanti a brani come "I Know You, I Live You", "Fate", "Heed The Warning", che dopo poche battute vi sembrerà di conoscere da sempre.
Niente abissali discese nei meandri dell'animo umano, certo che no; ma sono assicurati quaranta minuti di autentico spasso, sanissimo epidermico divertimento, con la voce della signora Yvette Marie Stevens che spesso e volentieri si diverte a mettere a dura prova i tweeter dei vostri altoparlanti (ai woofer ci pensa l'inesorabile sezione ritmica...), raggiungendo vette davvero incredibili.
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02 What Cha' Gonna Do for Me (03:54)
All night and day
Just chippin' away
It's all in a day's work
Tryin' hard to defend
The time that I spend alone
The TIME that you lose
Exploiting the blues
Won't get the job done
As hard as it bites
I'm keepin' my sights on you
CHORUS:
What cha' gonna do for me
What cha' gonna do for me
What cha' gonna do for me
When the chips are down
In the cool of the night
When nothing seems right
The feeling can take you
Strange as it seems
You make your own dreams come true
If you try to conceal
The way that you feel
You're asking for trouble
Just as sure as I cry
I'm keeping my eye on you
CHORUS (2x)
You don't have to tell me
I'm to blame for this
'Cause what you hold against me
Is what I miss
03 I Know You, I Live You (04:29)
It's not difficult
For me to say I love you
It wouldn't be difficult
If you would say the same
And believe me when I tell you
That I know you very well
I know you like I know my name
I think that I have met you
Somewhere in my dreams
I may never have met you at all
And I know you must be thinking,
"What a silly girl"
I know your every thought and scheme
I wake up to the feeling each morning
I go to bed to it at night
I know you, I live you
CHORUS:
Like I feel a sun in the morning
Like I see the moon at night
I know you as if I've known you all my life
I know you, I live you
One day you'll realize
That we're not strangers
If you open up your eyes
You'll know me too
And see that we were
Meant to be together, my dear
And all the rest is up to you
BRIDGE
Like I feel a sun in the morning
Like I see the moon at night
I know you as if I've known you all my life
I know you, I know you
Like I feel a sun in the morning
Like I see the moon at night
I think I know you more than you know yourself
I know you, I live you
Know you, live you
Know you, live you
Know you
And without me you'd stumble
And without you I'd fall
Without each other we would not be at all
10 Fate (03:14)
When you walked into my lonely life tonight
I saw my destiny, I saw eternity tonight
And the moment I held you I knew it
What we do is decided before we do it
CHORUS:
Fate, this could only be
Fate, I never thought I'd believe in
Fate, now I understand
It's part of the plan
I was meant to be your woman
Time stood still, and we lost on words to say
And though the people stared, they seemed a million miles away
Oh we knew it was love we were feeling
We were destined to give it a whole new meaning
CHORUS
In my heart I feel I've loved you all my life
I was in the dark, but now I think I've seen the light
I rang like a bell with your laughter
Something tells me I'll love you forever and ever
BREAKDOWN:
Fate (this could only be)
It was fate (this could only be)
It's part of the plan
I was meant to be your woman
(It's part of the plan)
I'll love you forever and ever
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