Listen Again: Famous Artists Who Sang Background On Hit Songs
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Veronica Wells
Chaka Khan on “Higher Love” by Steve Winwood
This 1986 song was the first single from Steve Winwood’s fourth studio album Back in the High Life. It was also a number one hit on Billboard and remained there for a week. The song featuring very distinguishable background vocals from Chaka Khan won a Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. Presumably because Khan’s vocals were so strong and because she was an established artist in her own right, she was featured in the single’s promotional video. I really only know “Higher Love” from all of the ’80’s movies which included the song in it’s soundtrack. It was featured on the 1987 film Stakeout, the 1988 film Big Business and the original debut of 21 Jump Street.
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