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- Tracy Chapman was born on March 30, 1964 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She is a music artist and actress, known for Un jour (2011), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019) and House of Gucci (2021).
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- Won the Best New Artist Grammy at the 31st Annual Grammy Awards. Also won Best Contemporary Folk Recording and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female for the same year. At the 39th Annual Grammy Awards, she won the Best Rock Song award for "Give Me One Reason".
- Graduated from Tufts University with a degree in Anthropology. Class of 1986.
- Her first album, Tracy Chapman (1988), is ranked number 263 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
- Ranked #54 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll.
- Winner of the Brit Awards for International Female and International Breakthrough Act in 1989.
- "Who knows? Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control. I'm never sure if: 1) I'll ever write another song, 2) what the song will be about and 3) if what initially sparked the beginning of a song might complete it. Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse. I often write either really early in the morning, just when I'm waking up, or really late at night. "You're the One" was a song that came to me in the morning. I woke up on my birthday, March 30, and wrote that song." - When asked 'What was the inspiration behind "You're the One?"'
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