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Chaka Khan Enterprises is the company behind Chaka Khan. It is artist owned, and it has one job: to steward a fifty year body of work and to keep building on it. Chaka Khan is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a ten time Grammy winner, and the recipient of the Recording Academy's 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest honour it bestows. Now in her sixth decade of recorded music, she is among the very few vocalists to have worked credibly across R&B, funk, jazz, pop, rock, gospel, classical and dance. Her catalogue continues to be sampled, covered and discovered by audiences who were not born when the records were made. CKE exists so that the work behind that catalogue is run deliberately rather than reactively. The company operates across recordings, live performance, music licensing and synchronisation, brand partnerships and consumer products, theatre and film. It relaunched Earth Song Records, which partners with BMG on Chaka's current album. It produces the stage musical "I'm Every Woman: The Chaka Khan Musical" and the feature documentary "Woman of Fire." It manages the touring operation, the catalogue, and the partnerships built around both. Longevity is the thing we actually build for. Careers in this industry are usually structured around the next release, and that structure quietly spends the artist. CKE is structured the other way, around what the work and the person who makes it will still be able to do in twenty years. That principle is why the company exists in this form, and it shapes what we say yes to. Chaka Khan Enterprises works alongside the Chaka Khan Foundation, a separate nonprofit organisation serving the neurodivergent community through music, mindfulness and meditation. For partnerships, licensing, press and booking enquiries, write to tammy@chakakhanenterprises.com.

Kool & the Gang is an American band formed in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1964 by brothers Robert "Kool" Bell and Ronald Bell, with Dennis "D.T." Thomas, Robert "Spike" Mickens, Charles Smith, George Brown, and Ricky West. They have undergone numerous changes in personnel and have explored many musical styles throughout their history, including jazz, soul, funk, rock, and pop music. After settling on their name following several changes, the group signed to De-Lite Records and released their debut album, Kool and the Gang.

Based in Austin, Texas, and established in 2007, Heatwave Interactive, Inc. is a game development studio and online publisher specializing in cross-media properties for gaming, film, music and television. Heatwave is currently hiring! Visit our website at http://www.heatwave.com for more information. Heatwave recently announced a partnership with Country Music Television (CMT) to launch a Social Game based on the Platinum Life IP. http://www.cmtpress.com/pressreleases/details.cfm?PressReleaseID=1000720 The company acquired Gods and Heroes: Rome Rising, two game engines, as well as licensed the rights to the PlayGrid publishing platform. http://www.godsandheroes.com Heatwave launched two products in early 2010: * The iSamJackson at www.isamjackson.com which was a top 15 entertainment app on iTunes App Store! * Platinum Life: Web edition at www.platinumlife.com which was a top 10 fastest growing game on Facebook!