I Feel for You

CTL-E-5849 · Work · album · 1984

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Combined Graph record U-00154 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-W-0038 + build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5849. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.

I Feel for You is Chaka Khan's 1984 solo album on Warner Bros. Records, released after the dissolution of Rufus, the band she had fronted alongside her solo career from 1978 to 1983. Its title track is Khan's version of a song Prince wrote and first recorded on his 1979 album Prince; Khan's recording adds a rap introduction by Melle Mel of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five and a harmonica part by Stevie Wonder, and it became an international hit that relaunched her mainstream career. The song reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, topped the U.S. R&B and dance charts and the U.K. singles chart, and earned Grammy Awards for both Prince, as songwriter, and Khan, as vocalist. The album also carries the ballad 'Through the Fire' and the singles 'This Is My Night' and 'Eye to Eye,' and it stands as the mainstream breakthrough of Khan's solo career.

The record

• Year: 1984
• Work type: song

Notes

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Relationships

• Chaka Khan — authored by
  I Feel for You (Warner Bros., 1984) is Chaka Khan's solo album, released after Rufus dissolved.
• Prince — composed by
  The album's title track was written by Prince, who first recorded it in 1979; the song won Prince the 1985 Grammy for Best R&B Song.

Sources

• Encyclopaedia Britannica, "Chaka Khan" (accessed 2026-10-16) — 1984 fifth solo album I Feel for You, title track written by Prince, Melle Mel rap and Stevie Wonder harmonica, Grammy Awards for both Prince and Khan, and 'Through the Fire' — https://www.britannica.com/biography/Chaka-Khan (build store)
• Recording Academy / GRAMMY.com, "Watch Chaka Khan Win A GRAMMY in 1985 For 'I Feel For You'" (accessed 2026-10-16) — 1985 Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female win; song written by Prince; Melle Mel, Stevie Wonder, and producer Arif Mardin — https://www.grammy.com/video/27th-annual-grammy-awards-best-rb-vocal-performance-female/ (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, "I Feel for You (album)" (accessed 2026-10-16) — Warner Bros. 1984 release after Rufus dissolved, title track's chart peaks (Hot 100 No. 3, U.K. No. 1) and the album's further singles — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Feel_for_You_(album) (build store)
• https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/national-recording-registry-inducts-sounds-of-taylor-swift--beyonc---the-go-go-s--vince-gill--weezer/s/bc258688-e655-4ffb-9f91-f32b94956f36 (verification source · master store)

Evidence note (master store)

Song title: 'I Feel for You' Recording artist: Chaka Khan Year as framed by the Library of Congress: 1984 (single); selected for the National Recording Registry in 2026 LOC notes Prince wrote the song and recorded it himself in 1979 (composition/original-recording distinction)

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