Chaka Khan Helps Transform Lives in Post-Katrina New Orleans
When Chaka Khan headed down to New Orleans in 2011 for the Essence Music Festival, it wasn’t the city she remembered. “When I landed I sensed something was really, really wrong there,” she tells Rolling Stone. “The infrastructure in that city was hit really hard, and they’re still reeling. It’s really sad, because it didn’t feel like the same New Orleans I’d been going to for most of my life.”
Khan took time to interact with some of the locals, which had a profound effect on her. “I met some women and I asked them questions. ‘What’s it like for you and did you lose anybody?’ I heard horrific stories,” she says. “Some of the women had lost, in one day, their mother, their aunts, their granddaughters. Some women were living in their car or living with friends. They had no hope of recovery. It was horrific. [And] the stories they were telling really changed me.”
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