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Singer Tracy Chapman was born on March
30, 1964 in Cleveland (Ohio, United States). She learned to touch the guitar and
very soon she began to compose her own songs. She received a scholarship that
allowed her to be present at the Wooster school in Connecticut, and then she was
accepted in the University of Tufts in Boston graduating in anthropology and
African studies. She did her first performances in the street and in night
places of Cambridge. She did a mock-up for the radio station of the university,
and one of her partners, Brian Koppelman, heard her, she liked him and he
presented Tracy to his father who was employed at the record company SBK. She
signed with the SBK and in 1988 she published her first album, titled Tracy
Chapman, acclaimed by the criticism. She began to do tours and her number of
fans increased. She acted in a concert televised in homage to seventy birthdays
of Nelson Mandela, and from there the song Fast Car sold more than
ten million copies and rose to the first positions in the American lists of
successes. Her first album obtained several platinum disks and four Grammys. In
1989 her second disk went out, Crossroads, which did not have so many
aftereffect although it was a number one in the United Kingdom. Her success
entered slope and her third album, Matters of the Heart, published in
1992, was appreciated only by her unconditional ones. Surprising her career
re-arose in 1995 with the album New Beginning, whose single "Give Me One
Reason" gained the Grammy as best rock song. In 2000 there went out another
album of her, Telling Stories, harvesting also successes in Europe. Tracy
Chapman has sung with big figures of the music as Bob Dylan or Bruce
Springsteen. Her songs are of big political and social commitment.
DISCOGRAPHY TRACY CHAPMAN
- Tracy Chapman (1988)
- Crossroads (1989)
- Matters of the Heart (1992)
- New Beginning (1995)
- Telling Stories (2000)
- Collection (2001)
- Let Iy Rain (2002)
- Where You Live (2005)
Singles: "Fast Car", "Talkin' 'Bout A Revolution", "Baby, Can I
Hold You?", "Crossroads", "Give Me One Reason".
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