Chaka Khan
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Yvette Marie Stevens, known professionally as Chaka Khan, is an American singer and songwriter. Known as the "Queen of Funk", her career has spanned more than five decades beginning in the early 1970s
Khan in 1997
Khan performing in 2006
Khan in 2012
Beatnik
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Beatniks were members of a social movement in the mid-20th century, who subscribed to an anti-materialistic lifestyle. They rejected the conformity and consumerism of mainstream American culture and e
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…category. Yvette Marie Stevens was born on March 23, 1953, in Chicago, Illinois to Charles Stevens and Sandra Coleman; she has described her father as a beatnik who struggled with heroin addiction. She was raised in the Hyde Park area of Chicago's South Side. After her parents divorced when she was 10, her…
Beat, Beat, Beat (1959) by William F. Brown
Poster for The Beat Generation (1959)
Stereotypical beatnik man
Stereotypical beatnik woman