Tracy Chapman

Person · Open Library

Works

16

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Film & TV

Acting · Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Tracy Chapman is an American musician, singer and songwriter.

Known for

• Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery — Self2025
• 60 Songs: BBC Two at 60 — Self (archive footage)2024
• Popular Voices at the BBC — Self (archive footage)2017
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Musical Guest2014
• O Melhor do Flash Back - 92 Clipes Para Recordar — Self (archive footage)2009
• Pavarotti & Friends 7 - For Cambodia and Tibet — Self2000
• One Love: The Bob Marley All-Star Tribute — Self - Perfomer1999
• Beastie Boys: Tibetan Freedom Concert 19991999
• The Paris Concert for Amnesty International — Self1998
• Vivement dimanche — Self1998

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

United States

Active from

1964

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,146,685

Total plays

38,244,921

Tracy Chapman (born March 30, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter. She was signed to Elektra Records by Bob Krasnow in 1987. In 1988, she released her self-titled debut album, which became a commercial success, aided by her performance at the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute concert, and was certified 6× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. The album received six Grammy Award nominations, including one for Album of the Year <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Tracy+Ch

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Frailty in Older Adults: Evidence for a Phenotype

   · 2001 · cited 20,837x

2. 2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension

   · 2018 · cited 8,299x

3. <i>EGFR</i> Mutations in Lung Cancer: Correlation with Clinical Response to Gefitinib Therapy

   · 2004 · cited 8,024x

4. 2019 ESC/EAS Guidelines for the management of dyslipidaemias: <i>lipid modification to reduce cardiovascular risk</i>

   · 2019 · cited 7,869x

5. Amazon's Mechanical Turk

   · 2011 · cited 7,766x

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Quotes

• “As a child…I always had a sense of social conditions and political situations. I think it had to do with the fact that my mother was always discussing things with my sister and me — also because I read a lot. A lot of people in similar situations just have a sense that they’re poor or disenfranchised, but they don’t really think about what’s created the situation or what factors don’t allow them to control their lives.”
• “It seems to me that that image was created for female folk singers because they actually had a lot more control than other women in the music scene…They wrote their own songs, they played them, they performed by themselves — there you have a picture of a very independent person, and trying to make them seem emotional and fragile and all puts a softer edge on it. As if there was something wrong with being independent.”
• “I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in…That's what everyone should do with their lives…stand up for what they believe in, or try to do some good in the world. I don't think artists have a greater responsibility than anyone else.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Tracy

Family name

Chapman

Gender

female

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Cleveland

Occupation

recording artist

Educated at

Tufts University

Languages spoken

American English

Award

Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo

Field of work

music composing

Genre

folk rock

Instrument

voice

Official website

www.tracychapman.com

Image

Tracy Chapman 3.jpg

Voice type

contralto

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