--- title: Prince: Chaka Khan Says He Had a Great Sly Stone Impression description: Chaka Khan reveals during a hilarious Prince anecdote that he had an incredibly realistic Sly Stone impression that he used to meet her. canonical: https://time.com/4531489/chaka-khan-prince-sly-stone/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-14T18:04:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:40.859Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Chaka Khan Says Prince Had a Hilarious Sly Stone Impression og:description: The singer reveals all in a hilarious anecdote og:url: https://time.com/4531489/chaka-khan-prince-sly-stone/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4b026f505715436f/6988aa16ab6d7783616ab91d/chaka-khan-prince-sly-stone.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 6th Annual BET Awards - Show og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Chaka Khan Says Prince Had a Hilarious Sly Stone Impression twitter:description: The singer reveals all in a hilarious anecdote twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4b026f505715436f/6988aa16ab6d7783616ab91d/chaka-khan-prince-sly-stone.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Of Course Chaka Khan Has an Amazing Prince Story  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 14, 2016 6:04 PM UTC  Prince and Chaka Khan perform "I Feel For You" during 6th Annual BET Awards - Show at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, CA, United States. (Photo by M. Caulfield/WireImage) Prince and Chaka Khan perform "I Feel For You" during 6th Annual BET Awards - Show at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, CA, United States. (Photo by M. Caulfield/WireImage)Michael Caulfield Archive—WireImage  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 14, 2016 6:04 PM UTC [Chaka Khan](http://time.com/4400843/chaka-khan-rehab-prescription-drug-addiction/) and [Prince](http://time.com/4314125/prince-minneapolis-hometown/) shared a deep mutual respect when it came to their music, so it only made sense that Khan was one of the featured headliners (alongside Stevie Wonder and Christina Aguilera) at a [tribute concert to the Purple One in St. Paul on Thursday](http://time.com/4496840/prince-chaka-khan-stevie-wonder-prince-tribute/). In a interview with [_Billboard_](http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7541899/chaka-khan-prince-sly-stone), Khan revealed that his Purpleness was a big fan of her music and even had her poster on his wall before he knew her personally. She also revealed the lengths to which he went to meet her, which involved him impersonating another legendary musician. Apparently, both Prince and Khan were recording in San Francisco, so he called her at her hotel pretending to be her good friend, Sly Stone. “I was completely fooled,” Khan said. “He said ‘this is Sly, I’m down at Electric Ladyland.’ ‘OK, I’ll be right down!’ And that’s how he got me down to the studio. I get there and there’s nobody there except for one little guy in this room with a guitar. And I said ‘Do you know where Sly is?’ He said to me, ‘Hi, I’m Prince, I called you.’ I was very pissed. And that’s how we met.” Prince’s tenacity paid off however, because he and Khan not only went on to have a beautiful friendship, but they also made the album _Come 2 My House_ together. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4531489/chaka-khan-prince-sly-stone/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4531489/chaka-khan-prince-sly-stone/"},"headline":"Of Course Chaka Khan Has an Amazing Prince Story","datePublished":"2016-10-14T18:04:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:37:40.859Z","description":"The singer reveals all in a hilarious anecdote","url":"https://time.com/4531489/chaka-khan-prince-sly-stone/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Music","Prince","celebrity","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4b026f505715436f/6988aa16ab6d7783616ab91d/chaka-khan-prince-sly-stone.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4b026f505715436f/6988aa16ab6d7783616ab91d/chaka-khan-prince-sly-stone.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"6th Annual BET Awards - Show","caption":"6th Annual BET Awards - Show","creditText":"Michael Caulfield Archive—WireImage","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4531489/chaka-khan-prince-sly-stone/","name":"Of Course Chaka Khan Has an Amazing Prince Story"}}]}] ```