"I'm Every Woman" is a hit song recorded by both Chaka Khan and Whitney Houston. Khan recorded the song in 1978 and it was her first hit outside of her recordings with funk band Rufus; the song was included on her platinum debut solo album Chaka. Produced by Arif Mardin and written by successful songwriting team Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the soul/disco song reached number twenty-one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and hit number one on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. . On the disco chart, the single peaked at number thirty.
The single established Chaka's career outside of the group Rufus, whom she would leave after their next album Masterjam came out at the end of 1979. A music video for Khan's "I'm Every Woman" was also one of the earliest music videos ever made. The video, which features five dancing Chakas dressed in various outfits to represent "every woman," was made several years before the onset of MTV, VH1, and BET.
The track was remixed and re-released in 1989 for Khan's remix album Life is a Dance - The Remix Project; this mix reached number 8 in the UK. A teenaged Whitney Houston and her mother Cissy sang background vocals on Khan's 1978 release. Houston would later record the song in 1992 with production by Louis Biancaniello and vocals produced by Narada Michael Walden, turning it into a hit for a new generation.
(When "I'm Every Woman" was released, Houston's preceding single, I Will Always Love You", was still at number 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 .(it remained there for eight more weeks). Houston's version of "I'm Every Woman" would become a bigger hit than the original, peaking at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 in just its seventh and eighth week of release; remaining in the top 40 for nineteen weeks. Houston's cover was also a bigger international hit than the original version as it peaked within the top 5 in the UK and several other countries, and the top 20 in France, Australia, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland.)
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Chaka Khan original
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOAMl2f8uRs
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