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Being “Queen of Funk” doesn’t come without being a muse of beauty as a side concert. And Chaka Khan, who’s 72 years old today, builds the beauty archive from the day of her birth. From joining the Black Panther party as a youngster (who’s the source of her historical afro), to performances with great like Prince and Diana Ross, the story of beauty doesn’t exist with out a woman of every woman.
At the starting of the seventies, Khan, compacted electric, Bouffant Afro was how she might be identified as a singer in the Rufus band. Shot in a New York hotel room, the front woman posed with a shiny lip, which in the Nineteen Eighties, after she went Solo, praised her jer makeup and excessively prolonged cat’s eye. In the 90s, when metallic lipstick and thin eyebrows appeared, Khan leaned in a filled hair on his face and participating in the seventh annual Soul Train Awards Awards in full brow and dark eye line.
Over time, her hair was straightened, but didn’t avoid large abdomen and immersed, of which she is thought. In 2000, her hair darkened, they appear more dark purple than red, and her makeup changes cooler with neutral browns (see: VH1’s Save The Music Foundation in 2003). In 2010, she regained the heritage of the red lip, as at the seventh annual Black Women in Hollywood Essence dinner, after which went pink at the Lincoln Center fashion gala in 2018.
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Now her hair is longer than wide, and the makeup is more subdued, but the brave lip still stays as a must -have funk icon. In honor of her 72nd birthday, take a look at the evolution of the beautiful Khaki Khan.
Indefinite – around 1970: photo chak khan photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Indefinite – January 1: (Australia out) photo of Chak Khan; Portrait of Pocz (photo of the Gab/Redferns archive)
American singer and songwriter Chak Khan, Frontwoman Funk Band Rufus, in her hotel room in New York. (Photo of Leonardo M. Delessio/Corbis by Getty Images)
Chaka Khan in New York, August 1, 1984 (photo of Walter McBride/Corbis by Getty Images)
Chaka Khan, Chaka Khan (photo Brian Rasic/Getty Images)
Chak Khan during New York musicians who will profit homeless children in Madison Square Garden in New York, New York, the United States. (Photo of Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)
Chaka Khan during the thirty third Grammy-Party Award at the Laura Belle restaurant at the Laura Belle restaurant in New York, New York, the United States. (Photo of Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)
Chaka Khan during the seventh annual Soul Train Music Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, the United States. (Photo Jim Smeal/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)
Chak Khan during the Hollywood Political Committee of Women “Make a Difceing” – October 28, 1994 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Beverly Hills, California, the United States. (Photo Jim Smeal/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)
Chaka Khan, Didazed, behind the scenes in the Blue Note Club, NYC, January 13, 2000
Chaka Khan during the 2nd annual BET awards – they got here to Kodak Theater in Hollywood, California, the United States. (Photo Sgranitz/Wireimage)
Chaka Khan during the VH1 Divas duets: Concert for the profit of VH1 Save the Music Foundation – newcomers at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, the United States. (Photo Jean-Paul Aussenard/Wireimage)
Mary J. Blige and Chak Khan during the Pre-Grammy Awards Clive Davis 2005 event to the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, and the United States. (Photo Mark Peterman/Wireimage for J)
Los Angeles – September 14: The singer of RNB Chaka Khan poses for a portrait session on September 14, 2005 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo Harry Langdon/Getty Images)
June 19: Chaka Khan participates in the Spring and Fame induction ceremony at Apollo Theater 2006 at Apollo Theater NYC on June 19, 2006 (photo by Chance Yeh /Patrick McMullan by Getty Images)
London, England – September 15: Chaka Khan attends Photocall in the upcoming program “Here Come The Girls” on September 15, 2009 in London, England. (Photo of Iana Gavana/Getty Images)
The singer Chak Khan arrives at the nineteenth annual Elton John Aids Foundation Academy Awards at Pacific Design Center on February 27, 2011 at West Hollywood, California. (Photo John Sciulli/Wireimage)
Beverly Hills, California – February 27: Artist R&B Chak Khan participates in the seventh annual dinner Essence Black Women in Hollywood at the Beverly Hills hotel on February 27, 2014 at Beverly Hills, California. (Photo Earl Gibson III/Wireimage)
New York, NY – November 29: Chaka Khan attends the Lincoln Center – a night honoring coach at the Lincoln Center Theater on November 29, 2018 in New York. (Photo Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Lincoln Center)
Chaka Khan attending the Oscar Vanity Fair party, which took place at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, and USA. (Photo of Iana West/Pa Images via Getty Images)
Los Angeles, California – February 24: In this photo published on March 8 Chak Khan participates in “Care Care” Celebrates “Every Woman” with Chaka Khan and Idina Menzel in Henson Studios on February 24, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo Emmy Mccintyre/Getty Images for Care)
London, England – July 5: Chaka Khan poses with the Global Live Music Award in the Winners’ Peace in Nordoff and Robbins O2 Silver Clef Awards 2024 at Grosvenor House Hotel Hotel 05 July 2024 in London in England. O2 Silver Clef Awards is a prestigious annual event led by the largest British charity organization of music therapy, Nordoff and Robbins. From 1976, prizes were collected by almost 13 million kilos for transformational music therapy services for kids and adults in Great Britain. (Photo JMENTERNATIONAL/GETTY IMAGES)
Miami, Florida – March 01: American singer Chak Khan performs on stage during Montreux Jazz Festival Miami at the hangar at Regatta Harbor on March 1, 2025 in Miami, Florida. (Photo Jason Koerner/Getty Images)
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