Chaka Khan album news

Chaka Khan's recent single ‘Like Sugar’ was initially launched as a limited edition release for Record Store Day 2018 and had a full release last summer. The accompanying Kim Gehrig-directed video won twice at the UK Music Video Awards, while The Queen of Funk's appeared live at Bestival and the Pitchfork Music Festival.

Now the 10-time Grammy Award announces her new album ‘Hello Happiness’ will be released on Feb. 15 via Diary Records/Island Records, the new label formed by Major Lazer founder and Grammy-nominated producer Switch with artist/songwriter Sarah Ruba Taylor. This is Khan's first studio set since 2007’s ‘Funk This’.

The title track is also the new single. It is accompanied by an official video that was directed by Sam Pilling (The Weeknd, Run The Jewels, Major Lazer). It depicts a series of characters whose true intentions are revealed as their individual stories gradually merge into a plot in which they’re all interconnected. Filmed in Los Angeles, its grainy, washed out palette recalls some of the classic ‘70s movies.

Khan first collaborated with ‘Hello Happiness’ producer Switch as a potential featured artist on a different project. Inspired by the power of both her voice and personality, Switch and Taylor suggested working on an original Chaka Khan album - something which she didn’t have in mind. But she was soon convinced when she heard some of Switch and Taylor’s songs, which coincidentally were influenced by Chaka Khan, but written for their own project.

‘Hello Happiness’ is now available to pre-order from ChakaKhan.lnk.to/HelloHappinessPR with ‘Like Sugar’ and the title track both provided as instant downloads. It will be released on vinyl, digital, CD and cassette.

Track listing:

Hello Happiness

Like A Lady

Don’t 'Cha Know

Too Hot

Like Sugar

Isn’t That Enough

Ladylike