Tracy Chapman is an American singer-songwriter. She was signed to Elektra Records by Bob Krasnow in 1987. The following year she released her self-titled debut album, which became a commercial success
Chapman performing in 2009
Chapman in Budapest, Hungary, 1988
Chapman and Eric Clapton on stage at a White House Special Olympics dinner, December 1998
Chapman at a 2007 performance
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction,
Tracy Chapman
…as Make Poverty History, amfAR, and AIDS/LifeCycle. She is a feminist. Although Chapman has never publicly discussed her sexual orientation, writer Alice Walker has said she and Chapman were in a romantic relationship during the mid-1990s. Chapman maintains a strong separation between her personal and professional…
Walker signing autographs in Florida in 1990
Walker (left) and Gloria Steinem on the Fall 2009 cover of Ms. magazine