I Feel for You I Feel for You "I Feel for You" is a song written by Prince that originally appeared on his 1979 self-titled album. The most successful and best-known version was recorded by R&B singer Chaka Khan and appeared on her 1984 album "I Feel for You". Prince, as songwriter, won the 1985 Grammy Award for Best R&B Song. Prince originally recorded the song containing disco music for his eponymous second album, released in 1979. He uses the falsetto vocal with the melody range between C and C. However, the song and "I Wanna Be Your Lover", a hit song of Prince's
I Feel for You (album) the record had a "nondescript nature"; apart from Khan's modicum of feeling on "Through the Fire", "one can listen to this album for a long time and still not feel she is making any impact." "Slant Magazine"s Eric Henderson considered "I Feel for You" a landmark pop and post-disco release, as well as Khan's "most grandly sustained moment of pop craft". According to AllMusic's Alex Henderson, it found Khan successfully adapting to the stylistic changes R&B had undergone since her 1970s music with Rufus, as "horn-powered funk bands, strings-laden Philadelphia soul, and orchestral disco were out of vogue, and the