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Tracy Chapman is an American singer-songwriter, known for hits such as "Fast Car", "Talkin' Bout A Revolution" and "Give Me One Reason". More

Tracy Chapman is an American singer-songwriter, known for hits such as "Fast Car" , "Talkin' Bout A Revolution" and "Give Me One Reason" .

Chapman attended Tufts University in Medford (MA), where she majored in anthropology and African studies in 1986. During her college years, she began performing on the street and playing guitar in Cambridge coffee houses. After signing with SBK, her self-titled debut album was released in 1988 and the single "Fast Car" about a young cashier girl who was already socially lost from the start. A few months later, at a Nelson Mandela birthday party at Wembley Stadium, she performed an acoustic version of "Talkin' bout a Revolution" using only her guitar. Her self-titled album became a bestseller because of this. A year later she won 4 Grammy Awards with this album.

Her next albums, "Crossroads" and "Matters of the Heart" , were much less successful. In 1995 "New Beginning" turned out to be a new beginning for her career. With the single "Give Me One Reason" she had a big hit in the United States. Her eighth album is "Our Bright Future" which was released in November 2008. The latter album is attracting attention, thanks in part to a European tour and the track "I Did It All" .

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