Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapmanis an American singer-songwriter, known for her hits "Fast Car" and "Give Me One Reason", along with other singles "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution", "Baby Can I Hold You", "Crossroads", "New Beginning" and "Telling Stories". She is a multi-platinum and four-time Grammy Award-winning artist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth30 March 1964
CityCleveland, OH
CountryUnited States of America
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Music was never just a hobby for me. I'd pick up a guitar every day to work on whatever I was writing at the time. I would put my ideas in songs the way some people might put them in diaries or journals.
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The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together.
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I'm not sure if the next song I write is going to be about love or a song about a tree.
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Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs.
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I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!
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My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it.
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Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.
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I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.
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I'm never sure if I'll ever write another song, what the song will be about and if what initially sparked the beginning of a song might complete it.
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I would have liked to have had a little break after I made the record before I started this part of it, but it's best for me to get right into it.
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I think of the audience the way I would think of another person: You meet someone, then you take it from there; you see what's interesting to both of you.
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As you might imagine, I'm approached by lots of organizations and lots of people who want me to support their various charitable efforts in some way. And I look at those requests, and I basically try to do what I can.
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I don't know - I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.
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The way popular music is categorized and formatted cuts down on everyone's options. And although people don't talk about it, there are a lot of issues of race determining musical categories of what's rock, R&B, or even folk. It ends up restricting creativity.