She released her self-titled debut album in 1988 and gained wider recognition when she performed the breakout song Fast Car at the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute concert, which almost overnight sent the album to Number 1 in both the UK and US, selling over ten million copies worldwide and winning a clutch of accolades such as three Grammy Awards and Best International Breakthrough Act and Best International Solo Female at the 1989 BRIT Awards. Tracy entered music when she used to busk around Harvard when she was a student there in the mid-1980s, and was discovered by another student whose dad who ran the SBK publishing company, and he recommended her to him in 1986. Tracy Chapman was born Main Cleveland Ohio, and is an American singer-songwriter.
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