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Chaka Khan’s Lost Prince Album ‘Come 2 My House’ To Make Digital Debut for 25th Anniversary
Only the savviest fans know that Chaka Khan recorded an entire project with Prince in 1998. The first track could hook you in 45 seconds flat.
Before a note is sung, these lassoed-together elements are irresistible: kick drum, constant as a heartbeat; avian flute trill, mimicking a whippoorwill; shakers that oscillate to and fro like a garden sprinkler; and then there’s Chaka. Famous for her sky-shattering vocal belt, this is the way her world begins—not with a bang, but with a whisper. Playing her very breath like brushed snare in a jazz solo, she exhales the name of the song and album into its very walls: Come 2 My House.
Originally released July 21, 1998, this would be Khan’s most cohesive and personal disc ever, and there’s a good chance you had no idea it even existed.
Prince and Khan have a lengthy history, initially meeting under less than ideal pretenses. He got Khan’s hotel number and impersonated her friend Sly Stone to lure her to a studio. Khan was not pleased when…
