Tracy Chapman
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Tracy Chapman (born March 30, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter best known for her hits "Fast Car" and "Give Me One Reason" as well as other singles "Baby Can I Hold You," "Crossroads," "New Beginning," and "Telling Stories," among other singles.
Chrhapman was a multi-platinum and four-time Grammy Award-winning artist signed to Elektra Records by Bob Krasnow in 1987.
Tracy Chapman, her critically acclaimed debut album, became a multi-platinum worldwide success the following year.
Chapman received six Grammy Award nominations, including Album of the Year, three of which she received, including Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for her single "Fast Car" and Best New Artist.
Chapman's second album Crossroads debuted the following year, earning her another Grammy nomination.
Chapman has continued to be successful with six more studio albums, including her multi-platinum fourth album New Beginning for which she received her fourth Grammy Award for its lead song "Give Me One Reason."
Our Bright Future, Chapman's most recent book, was released in 2008.
Early life
Chapman was born in Cleveland, Ohio. When she was four years old, her parents divorced. Chapman was raised by her mother, who bought her a ukulele at age three. At age eight, Chapman began playing guitar and writing songs. She claims she was inspired to play the guitar by the television show Hee Haw. As a child, Chapman suffered with frequent bullying and racially motivated assaults in Cleveland, Ohio.
Chapman, a born in Episcopal, was accepted into the program A Better Chance, which supports students in college preparatory high schools far away from their home communities. She graduated from Wooster School in Connecticut and Tufts University, graduating with a B.A. Anthropology and African studies are both majors. Busking in nearby places, including Harvard Square and the MBTA Red Line platforms, as a student at Tufts.
Personal life
Though Chapman has never disclosed her sexual orientation, writer Alice Walker has admitted that she and Chapman were in a romantic relationship in the mid-1990s. Chapman maintains a strong identity between her personal and professional life. "I have a public life that mirrors my work life, and I have my personal life," she said. "The decision to keep the two things separate in some ways relates to the work I do."
Career
On May 3, 1985, Chapman made her major-stage debut as an opening act for women's music pioneer Linda Tillery of Boston's Strand Theater. Brian Koppelman, a Tufts undergraduate, heard Chapman playing and bringing her to the attention of his father, Charles Koppelman. In 1986, Koppelman, the owner of SBK Publishing, signed Chapman. Chapman began working with Elektra Records after graduating from Tufts in 1987.
Tracy Chapman (1988) was released on Elektra. The album was critically acclaimed, and she began touring and building a fanbase. Soon after she appeared at the televised Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute concert at Wembley Stadium in June 1988, "Fast Car" appeared on the charts. Chapman appeared briefly in the afternoon but attracted a larger audience when she was a last-minute stand in for Stevie Wonder, who had technical difficulties, at the festival. This appearance has been credited with a major increase in single and album sales. It's now "Fast Car" is a No. 1 in the United Kingdom. Billboard Hot 100 hit 6 pop stars for the week ending August 27, 1988. Rolling Stone ranked the album No. 1 in the United States. 167 on their 2010 list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" include 167. The sequel to Fast Car's "Talkin' Bout a Revolution," the sequel to Fast Car's debut, debuted at No. 1. "Baby Can I Hold You," which peaked at No. 77, was followed by "Baby Can I Hold You." 48. The album did well, earning three Grammy Awards, including an award for Chapman as the Best New Artist. Chapman appeared on Amnesty International Human Rights Now in 1988. Tour.
Crossroads (1989), Chapman's follow-up album, was less commercially successful than her debut, but it did earn platinum status in the United States, but it did not lose gold. Matters of the Heart appeared in 1992. New Beginning (1995), her fourth album, was a hit, with over five million copies in the United States alone. The album included the hit single "Give Me One Reason," which received the 1997 Grammy Award for Best Rock Song and became Chapman's most popular single in the United States to date, peaking at No. 10. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and going Platinum. Telling Stories, her fifth album, was released in 2000 and later went gold. In 2002, Chapman's sixth album, Let It Rain, was released.
The American Conservatory Theater had hired Chapman to write music for its production of Athol Fugard's Blood Knot, a play on apartheid in South Africa, which premiered in early 2008. Our Bright Future (2008), Chapman's eighth studio album. Chapman's album was nominated for Best Contemporary Folk Album by the following year.
Chapman was named a member of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival in the United States. Jurors are selected by a documentary jury. On one of the last episodes of the Late Show with David Letterman in April 2015, Chapman appeared on "Stand By Me." The performance became a viral hit, and many news papers, including Billboard and The Huffington Post, were devoted to it.
Chapman unveiled Greatest Hits, which included 18 tracks, including the live version of "Stand by Me," on November 20, 2015. Chapman's first international compilation compilation release, Chapman's first global compilation.
Chapman sued rapper Nicki Minaj for copyright violation in October 2018, alleging that Minaj sampled her song "Baby Can't Hold You" without her permission. Chapman said she had "indefinitely refused" permission for "Baby Can I Hold You" to be sampled. Minaj was charged with copyright abuse (a) by composing the album "Sorry" and (b) by distributing it; she requested an injunction to prohibit Minaj from releasing it. Chapman has a policy of refusing all requests for permission to sample her music, according to the complaint. On the first count of Chapman's complaint, district court Judge Virginia A. Phillips granted summary decision in favour of Minaj on the first count of her lawsuit, finding that Minaj's experimentation with Chapman's song was more relevant than copyright violation. However, the judge found that the second count of the accusation should go to trial. The dispute was settled in January 2021 when Minaj paid Chapman $450,000.
On the eve of the 2020 presidential race in the United States, Chapman performed "Bout a Revolution" on Late Night with Seth Meyers, urging people to vote.