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- PEOPLE, Page 66Voice in the Wilderness
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- By Howard G. Chua-Eoan/Reported by Jeannie Park
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- On Grammy night last week, the most prestigious awards went
- to Bobby McFerrin's Don't Worry, Be Happy. But it was Tracy
- Chapman's unsynthesized voice, her heartbreak guitar and Fast
- Car that put the glitz and glamour of the music biz to shame.
- Nominated for six awards, Chapman, 24, walked off with three:
- Best New Artist, Best Female Pop Vocal and Best Folk Recording.
- Tracy Chapman, her debut album of angry, socially conscious
- songs, has sold nearly 3 million copies, astounding an industry
- that knows only of libidinous messages of the moment.
- Touchingly abashed by the honors, Chapman kept her thank-yous
- short and heartfelt: "To my mother, who bought me my first
- guitar, and to my sister, who is my best critic, my best
- audience and my best friend."
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