

Brian Koppelman, her fellow student, heard once her demo and recommended this musician to his father, Charles Koppelman, manager of SBK Publishing. Tracy gave her first performances at coffeehouses and clubs. As a student, she discovered Bob Dylan and became fond of folk music. Finishing her high school, Tracy earned scholarship to study at Tufts University, focused on research of anthropology and African cultures. Since her early childhood years, the girl was interested in music, learned to play guitar fast and started writing her own songs shortly after. She was born in a poor family in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1964. Tracy Chapman is an Afro-American rock-singer who restored wide audience’s attention to folk music and art of songwriters and singers back from the seventies.
