Tracy Chapman

Tracy Chapman (Cleveland (Ohio), 30 March 1964) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for hits like Fast Car, Talkin' Bout A Revolution and Give Me One Reason.

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[hide] *1 early life  ==Life Course[ Edit] == Chapman studied at Tufts University in Medford (MA), where they took in 1986 a major in anthropology and African studies. During her student years she started with street performances and played guitar in coffeehouses in Cambridge. After they signed to SBK came in 1988 from her self-titled debut album, and the single Fast Car about a young cashier girl that was already lost in social terms in advance. Several months later she released during a birthday party of Nelson Mandela in the Wembley Stadium with just her guitar a acoustic version of a revolution Talkin' bout will be performing. Her self-titled album was a bestseller and with fourteen weeks at number one the longest listed debut album at that position in Netherlands. A year later she won with this album 4 Grammy Awards.
 * 2 discography
 * 2.1 Albums
 * 2.2 Singles
 * 2.3 Radio 2 Top 2000
 * 2.4 Duet
 * 3 external links

With her next albums, Crossroads and Matters of the Heart, garnered them much less success. But New Beginning in 1995 turned out to be a new beginning for her career. With the single "Give Me One Reason, she scored a big hit in the United States. Her eighth and most recent album is Our Bright Future that was released in november 2008 . That last album also attracts attention in the Netherlands again, thanks in part to a European tour and the track I Did It All. ==Discography[ Edit] == ===Albums[ Edit] === ===Singles[ Edit] === ===Radio 2 Top 2000<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Duet<span class="mw-editsection" len="324" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In 2000 sings Tracy Chapman a duet with Luciano Pavarotti in the framework of the "Pavarotti & Friends" for Cambodia and Tibet. Together they sing "Baby can I hold you".