Tracy Chapman

Tracy Chapman is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her singles "Fast Car", "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution", "Baby Can I Hold You", "Crossroads", "Give Me One Reason" and "Telling Stories". She is a multi-platinum and four-time Grammy Award-winning artist.

In 1988, she released Tracy Chapman and "Fast Car" became a number 6 pop hit on the Billboard Hot 100. Rolling Stone ranked the song number 165 on their list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution", the follow-up single, charted at number 75 and was followed by "Baby Can I Hold You", which peaked at number 48. The album sold well, going multi-platinum and winning three Grammy Awards, including an honor for Chapman as Best New Artist. Later in 1988, Chapman was a featured performer on the worldwide Amnesty International Human Rights Now! Tour.

Her follow-up album was Crossroads in 1989 achieved platinum status. By 1992's Matters of the Heart, Chapman was playing to a small and devoted audience. Her fourth album, New Beginning, was released in 1995 sold over three million copies in the U.S. The album included the hit single "Give Me One Reason", which won the 1997 Grammy for Best Rock Song and became Chapman's most successful single to date, peaking at Number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.

In 2000, her fourth album, Telling Stories was released. Its hit single, "Telling Stories", received heavy airplay on European radio stations and on Adult Alternative and Hot AC stations in the United States. Her sixth album, Let It Rain, was released in 2002. In 2005, her seventh studio album, Where You Live, was released.

Chapman was commissioned by the American Conservatory Theater to compose music for its production of Athol Fugard's Blood Knot, a play on apartheid in South Africa, staged in early 2008.

Chapman's eighth studio album, Our Bright Future, was released in 2008.