Yvonne stevens also known as taka boom
Taka Boom (born Yvonne Stevens; October 8, in Chicago, Illinois) is an.!
Born Yvonne Stevens, October 8th, In Chicago, Illinois, Taka Boom is the younger sister of R&B singer Chaka Khan.
Meet Chaka Khan's Siblings Who Are Famous Singers
Chaka Khan, known as the Queen of Funk, is not the only talented musician in her family. Two of her siblings, Taka Boom and Mark Stevens, also inherited the music gene and had their own encounters with fame in the ‘70s and ‘80s.
Chaka, real name Yvette Marie Stevens, is the oldest of five children born to Charles Stevens, a photographer and avid Jazz fan, and Sandra Coleman, a worker at the Public Opinion Research Center.
Chaka Khan in Chris March.
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She grew up alongside her siblings, Yvonne (Taka), Mark, Zaheva and Tammy in a middle-class household in the Hyde Park area of Chicago. "An island in the middle of the madness," of Chicago housing projects, as she once described it.
Yvette and Yvonne discovered their singing at a young age by harmonizing around the house to their favorite songs.
Confident in their abilities, they formed the group The Crystalettes in their pre-teens and scoute