With high cheekbones and smooth, dark skin, you might recognise her in the street, but it would take you a short while to riffle through your mental Rolodex before you matched the face to the name. Today, aged 38, she boasts a mane of hair that comes halfway down the back of her corduroy jacket.
But the rest of us are stuck with a sound and an image of her that dates from the late 1980s: all pert dreads and protest lyrics. Her second album, Crossroads, released just a year after that memorable debut, did well enough, but failed to lodge itself in the collective memory in the same way.įor those who have been following Chapman's career over the past decade, she never went away there have been world tours, four albums and a whole raft of benefit concerts. We carried on listening to her early work even as her face faded from view. She got there at the right moment with stuff that was good."īut it was a music and a message that managed both to be of their time and to endure beyond it. "People really wanted what she had," said David Kershenbaum, who produced her first, eponymous album. Aged only 24, she produced not just a one-off memorable song, but a body of work - including Fast Car, Behind The Wall and For My Lover - on an album that many of us still play. Performing at Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday concert at Wembley Stadium back in 1988, Chapman seemed to speak for a generation of would-be radicals who came of political age too late for Paris 1968 and too early for Seattle 1999. Together again It would feel so good to be In your arms Where all my journeys end If you can make a promise If it's one that you can keep, I vow to come for you If you wait for me and say you'll hold A place for me in your heart.R emember Tracy Chapman? For a brief while, 14 years ago, she was everywhere - a powerful, clear voice talkin' about a revolution at a time when Reagan, Thatcher, the Berlin Wall and apartheid all appeared indestructible. Remembering Your touch Your kiss Your warm embrace I'll find my way back to you Please say you'll be waiting Remembering Your touch Your kiss Your warm embrace I'll find my way back to you If you'll be waiting I've longed for you and I have desired To see your face, your smile To be with you wherever you are Remembering Your touch Your kiss Your warm embrace I'll find my way back to you If you'll be waiting I've longed for you and I have desired Tracy Chapman - The Promise - To see your face your smile To be with you wherever you are
If you wait for me then I'll come for you Although I've traveled far I always hold a place for you in my heart If you think of me If you miss me once in awhile Then I'll return to you I'll return and fill that space in your heart Remembering Your touch Your kiss Your warm embrace I'll find my way back to you If you'll be waiting If you dream of me like I dream of you In a place that's warm and dark In a place where I can feel the beating of your heart
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