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.

She returned to tour Europe and selected North American cities during the summer of 2009. "
Her follow-up album Crossroads (1989) was less commercially successful but still achieved platinum status. Chapman toured Europe and the US in 2003 in support of her sixth album Let It Rain (2002).

She is a multi-platinum and four-time Grammy Award-winning artist. Tracy Chapman (born March 30 1964) is an American singer-songwriter known for her singles "Fast Car" "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution" "Baby Can I Hold You" "Crossroads" "Give Me One Reason" and "Telling Stories".