It's a mysterious realm (a field or domain of activity or interest) when from the past visits the now to remind us of before, with truth of Another World Is Possible.
No autotune. No pyro. No dancers. No light show. No prerecording. No sex. No gimmicks. No drama. Just a humble artist with a voice, a guitar and a message. As relevant and beautiful today (2023) as when I first heard in in the late 80’s. Thank you Tracy Chapman 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼♥️♥️♥️♥️✊🏼
When Tracy came to success everyone considered her the new Bob Dylan in the female version of the 90s and everyone thought that she would have a career full of successes like Bob. Unfortunately the subsequent discs have had less and less success. And now he hasn't made a record for several years.
sometimes a mistake to label someone the "new" version of someone; just a standout artist in her own right is fine! & she has achieved a back catalogue of amazing legendary songs under her belt so that's pretty impressive IMO !
1989. Melbourne Entertainment Centre. There was nothing on stage except a microphone and a foldback speaker. This amazing woman came on stage with just an acoustic guitar and wowed us for the next 90 minutes. I'd never seen the like. Or since.
And she throws it like it sounds on vinyl with ease. Any single note and tone. This is so damn remarkable. No doubt she was one of the biggest musicians of all time. No matter if one likes this kind of music or not it has to be honored. I never saw a that tight performance looking so "just what I doo normally". She will be remembered for all times.
A woman with a guitar, her voice and a message worth listening to and remembering. Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins... Tracy Chapman stands with the absolute best of them.
@@sa-call-sa Obrigado ! Vocês são as mulheres mais bonitas do mundo. Eu viajei muito. Mas também estou casado há 20 anos. Deus te abençoe! Tudo de bom de Hamburgo/Alemanha
The backstory here is that Stevie Wonder was due to perform but his backing track-CD went missing so he couldn't go on stage. In the meantime, whilst searching for the CD, they wanted someone else to perform a few songs to keep the crowd warm. Tracy Chapman had performed earlier that day for a handful of people and was still hanging around backstage. So she was asked to play again, this time for a full Wembley stadium. No one knows her and everyone's expecting Stevie Wonder. So she steps on stage and starts playing in fornt of 60.000 people. The rest is history. I believe divine intervention occured that day and that our almighty Father made sure the backing track went missing for a while so the world would hear Tracy's voice.
I first heard this song when I was 20 year old kid in prison in 2009. I Went in at 17. Got my GED, did a Computing course and got trusty status. Me and 7 other inmates worked at the Kampala Rd Food Bank after completing the Computing course. I fought tears hearing this song on the bus ride at 5am on the way to work and this song still makes me tear up today. face-pink-tears😹
This was her encore performance back then when the original band that should pay there was late or so. I don't remember the full story but she performed there as a warm up and people wanted encore cause the actual band didn't show up. So she could play again and she was overwhelmed how many people love this song. This kicked off her career!
Seriously... I was just a little gay white boy and I was like "am I allowed to hear this?" when it first came out. I was shook, and I've not shaken this feeling since. Finally, the tables **are** starting to turn. BLACK LIVES MATTER.
I was 26 when her album came out. I would listen over and over. I am nearly 62 now. So glad she’s back. Now I am back to listening to her over and over.
THIS IS NOT JUST A SONG THIS IS A CALLING TO RISE UP AND TAKE THE FIGHT, TURN THE TABLES OF STRUGGLE AND TO TAKE WHAT THE CAPITALISTS HAVE TAKEN FROM US
This track taps into the little rebel inside all of us. If you've ever been hurt, abused, neglected or mistreated, this song gives you space & time to think & get your thoughts in order. It won't solve your problems, but it will gently hold you & help you make that first important step towards improving your life. Thanks Tracy, for giving the world this beautiful & healing work of art.
I’m 78, and have been listening to Trace Chapman since day one. I still remember the thrill of hearing Fast Car for the first time (released as a single in 1988). She brought us eight studio albums and two compilations (Collection in 2001 and Greatest Hits in 2015). She seems to have retired, but her songs are timeless and have no expiration date.
I discovered Tracy Chapman just about two years ago, when I was at the most dark place of my life. I am not kidding when I say that she literally saved my life with her music.
That's great. I remember when she first game out. Believe me people were like wow who is this. Whenever I hear her it takes me back to the best time of my life.
One of the strongest and most impressive messages combined with a one in a billion voice, thank you Tracy. This performance is part of my life, never stopped listening
by my hand to god I saw Tracy busking in Harvard Square back in the early 80s looonnnggggg before she became famous. Had no idea who she was but stopped to listen to her along with about 30 other people. About 5 years later I heard FAST CAR playing in my dorm at UMass and my mouth dropped. I knew that voice, the beautiful, deep soulful voice. Went into the room and asked who that was. The girl, Debbie, handed me the album. Holy crap! It was her!
@@lermink_ Tracy Chapman is alive and well. Maybe you'll get to see her yet! If she comes to Seattle, I'll be the first to get a concert ticket! She's the best!
Why, at 48, have I only just discovered this track?!!!! 💙💙💙 I love Tracy Chapman. Raw talent, and raw beauty... A combination rarely seen in today’s world of artificial manufacture....
Mimo Slavich All those reported deaths under Stalin and Chairman Mau is fake news. They were benevolent leaders who brought freedom to their people. Stalin even made sure vodka was cheap so the masses could celebrate the revolution on a daily basis.
She is so shy as she writes a chapter in music history and builds a myth around her person while giving her songs to the world at this moment. - People, go and read her story, she came out and made music and went back to live a normal life as a mother.
🐻👀💌👀🕊️🕊️👀🙏🙏🙏👀💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞😘😘😘👀💏💏💏💏💏👀🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰👀👄👀🌕🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨🔥🥂👄💐🌹🥀🕊️🕊️👀🌈👀🙏🙏💐💐🌹🌹🌹🌹🐻🌹🌹🌹🥀🥀🥀💐💐💐 God bless you darling
Where's that darn revolution when you need it. Like a whisper! Love you Ms. Chapman. Cried like a tiny baby through your Grammy performance. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!
do something men, are you going to DO something or you stay with papa and mama and your little brain? Si querés te lo explico en espagnol ou la langue de PARIS J habite? le example de tout ce que je deteste de le system ou on habite c'est extacrtement TOI T' est le gagnante !
Oh man, I remember all the "big" artists performing at the Mandella tribute concert in '88. Chapman rolls up with her guitar and sings this and Fast Car, then quietly walks off. True talent that doesn't seek the "celebrity" status of todays artists.
+Richard Hawkes Also, though this might sound frivolous, her voice and guitar are as pure as her lyrics. NO FUCKING AUTOTUNE. So she's even honest technically.
tekobari Fair point. I do think there are plenty of talented singers out there today though. They just get bullied out of the way by the ever-increasing barrage of pop we have to swallow!
Well said Richard I agree, she does not seek celebrity and fame but she is a quality human being and she loves music, a very rare talent, we could do with a few more like her.
Maybe my favourite singer of all time - I worked hard when I was younger and saved up money to buy her music. Tracy Chapman is all heart, soul, talent, wisdom, authenticity, and her blessing and gift to all of us is her ability to tell stories - stories about life, love, sacrifice, inequity, intolerance, cruelty, despair, and hope that reach inside of you and make you think about really important issues and who you are and want to be. LEGEND is an inadequate word for this brilliant human. (Thank you Tracy Chapman for shining your light!)
I love Tracy Chapman..... I’m also a signer..... I will learn this song so I can cover it..... Agree completely.... the even younger than I am generation needs to learn and not forget these great classics - they still hold true today
EXACTLY! It says to me, "I wasn't sure if I could, but I just did something great. May it help you and the world around as much as it did my soul. Now when's the next breakthrough?"
Oh gosh same here!!! And the way the wind blew in her hair was beautiful. I wish I could have hair like hers. I have really thin baby fine board straight blonde hair but always wanted hair like hers. Style and color . But overall everything about her is so natural and beautiful
Gets me every time. I remember watching this performance on TV, carried live: my friend and I had never heard of Tracy Chapman, but after she had finished we just looked at one another and shook our heads in disbelief, it was so awesome: timeless song, great lyrics, amazing voice, incredible performance. Blew us away. Still does. Keep on rockin' Tracy.
Had you heard any of her songs but didn't know it was her? Like Give Me One Reason? Or Fast Car? Anyhow, that's terrific that you and your friend liked her and were so blown away by the performance! You recognized greatness. It's unique to be so unpretentious.
I went to a concert back in the 80's and it started off with an unheard of black woman and her guitar. I was less than enthusiastic when she began , but after just a few seconds I became a Tracy Chapman fan for life.
One of the most beautiful songs I heard in college. This cannot be forgotten - these were the years 2003-2008 of AWF Katowice Poland. Greetings 2024 Raptor
The thing with this gal is I that like her approach, feeling to life, her anger. She's right. Luv. And the music too I like . Did I mention that she's beautiful?
I was a teenager in this restless crowd and was mesmerized by her voice! Im 50 years old now and this song hits different today but still a classic from a solid performer❤
@@mzwandilemzana172 She definitely looks like she has Zulu in her genetic makeup. So beautiful. As a pre teen in South Africa in 1994 her music was balm of golden light. One of my favorite memories ever was walking in PMB central and a young Rasta boy (about 5) and his sister (about 11) were singing anf playing this on their beaten up box guitar sitting on a monument. They silenced all the noise for me. It still gives me goosebumps thinking about it +20 years later.
The raw power of that voice still breaks my heart, almost 30 years later. Tracy Chapman is a once-in-a-generation talent. People still yearning to be free. God willing, we'll get there some day.
A mais de 30 anos, em um pais colonizador, um estádio icônico, essa mulher deixou essa mensagem de luta e resistência! Merece qqr e toda reverência, ser humano iluminado, sem falar do talento e da voz ❤
First LP I bought when I visited Westgermany after the wall came down, still got it today. We talked about a Revolution AND had one in Eastgermany. I am truly grateful for this once in a livetime experience and of course for this song. Thank you, Tracy Chapman, after more than 30 years.
1998 - I was in grade 4, I borrowed my mum's cassette. It was an introduction to this magnificent artist. A revolution in herself. There'll never be another TC. Thank you for the music 💟
This is one of my favourite songs ever. Everything about it makes me smile. Its pure, unadulterated, musical perfection Her voice, the lyrics she sings, the tone, the way its put together. Its absolutely unmatchable And that voice. Good god, how can someone sound so good?
I'm 16 and Tracy Chapman is mind blowing. This is the true pure way to use our musical gifts. May God keep you all in His loving arms during these times✨
As a kid, I listened to this song enjoying her deep voice and thinking of this music as of a proud anthem. Today I see how actually delicate, elegant and fragile this woman looks and feels.
WE NEED TO LOOK 👀 TO THE Olympic games and THE GAMES OF ALL PARTIES THAT THAT PART REENFORCING THE TURE VALUES OF FAIR PLAY AND NOT DISCRIMINATE AGAINST THE AMAZING PEOPLE WHO PROVE THEY R THE BEST THE WORLD 🌍 AS TO OFFER... so to u ppl we look 👀 to the future xxxxxxxxx
It was here where she was revealed to the world. She was supposed to be filling in between renowned acts and the revellers were blown away. It's less than three months since the death of a South African phenomenon, Zahara, who I wish should've listened to Tracy's sophomore hit "Crossroads" in a bid to save her self and protect what's hers.
Dang. I must have heard this song a thousand times on the radio back in the 80s while out partying with my friends and was always floored with the unbelievably powerful lyrics, strikingly beautiful melody, voice of an angel, and grounding simplicity of a somewhat unknown artist making such a culturally significant and beautiful contribution to the music world with nothing more than a single voice and acoustic guitar, so organic and pure. I could go on but already said too much about someone who would most likely prefer to remain humble and true to the essence of the era and future generations to come.
The attention seekers usually have little to offer, the most humble usually have the most to offer for those who pay attention and appreciate realness 💖💖💖
My country Kenya needs to hear this right about now. It's about time for that revolution. Time to claim our place at the table. Such a soulful masterpiece from this Legend.
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A one in a billion voice
One in a billion voice, indeed! Miss her a lot
You damn right - and you know it
You can say That!
I NICHOLA BERNADETTE PRINCE ALVES...AGREES WHOLE HEARTEDLY WITH YOU 💯 %
YES ❤️....LOVE HER VOICE.....
She doesn't even need a guitar, she could hold that entire stadium in the palm of her hands with her voice alone.
Unlike the annoying, shiny circus clown, Ms. Cyrus.
Beautiful voice of a story teller of all times pure gift❤
You ain't wrong
@@MISNM0 ❤️
and her smile
I am so happy that people are finding Tracy Chapman.
It's a mysterious realm (a field or domain of activity or interest) when from the past visits the now to remind us of before, with truth of Another World Is Possible.
Me too
.loved her from way back
What the heck were they looking at before? She's always been there.
Oh, now I am in tears.
@@timothyletwin5911 ikr lol
No autotune. No pyro. No dancers. No light show. No prerecording. No sex. No gimmicks. No drama. Just a humble artist with a voice, a guitar and a message. As relevant and beautiful today (2023) as when I first heard in in the late 80’s. Thank you Tracy Chapman
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼♥️♥️♥️♥️✊🏼
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In 2024 as well
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@@diosantana2659 I saw it live. I can make that comment at any time.
@@zwqne99 you to! I saw it live. Noted it then. I can make that comment at any time.
No overdone makeup , no expensive dress, no dramatic stage lights , just pure talent ❤️❤️❤️
Just like that!!!
Toujours à la pointe de l’amour et des voix et des interprètes qui seront toujours inoubliables !!!! Et j’adore RUclips
She is gorgeous
When Tracy came to success everyone considered her the new Bob Dylan in the female version of the 90s and everyone thought that she would have a career full of successes like Bob. Unfortunately the subsequent discs have had less and less success. And now he hasn't made a record for several years.
sometimes a mistake to label someone the "new" version of someone; just a standout artist in her own right is fine! & she has achieved a back catalogue of amazing legendary songs under her belt so that's pretty impressive IMO !
Tracy, what a pleasant surprise performance on last night’s 2024 Grammys! You are fabulous as ever!❤️
I would literally trade everything just to experience her live performance.....i hope one day she will be in KENYA
😢
Dumbass Taylor Swift stole her thunder. Why the fuck does that asshole have to EVERYONE and ruin EVERYONE'S moments?
1989. Melbourne Entertainment Centre. There was nothing on stage except a microphone and a foldback speaker. This amazing woman came on stage with just an acoustic guitar and wowed us for the next 90 minutes. I'd never seen the like. Or since.
And she throws it like it sounds on vinyl with ease. Any single note and tone. This is so damn remarkable. No doubt she was one of the biggest musicians of all time. No matter if one likes this kind of music or not it has to be honored. I never saw a that tight performance looking so "just what I doo normally". She will be remembered for all times.
You are so lucky to have seen it!
I really hope that last night was a sign that she is coming out of retirement to do a tour. She still got it. That voice needs to be heard🙏🙏🙏
A woman with a guitar, her voice and a message worth listening to and remembering. Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins... Tracy Chapman stands with the absolute best of them.
As someone who has loved folk music my entire life, I 100% agree.
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Don't forget Joan Armatrading
Wait what? That's a woman?
@@Lloyd_Christmas11thank you! I'm just learning this too!
It's not a song...it's a message to all of us!!
True dat Brother.
Indeed it is 🎯
💞
Needed now more than ever
IT'S BOTH 🐱
2024 I’m talking bout a revolution!
Her passion, poetic turn of phrase (“those armies of salvation”), intelligence and voice. What a treasure ❤
Almost 30 years later this song still gives me goosebumps, even at 40 Celcius.
✋same
Me too ! This song is a kind of "Cooldown". Back to the roots ! Best wishes from Hamburg/Germany
@@ernst-dietmarhorstmann4949 👍
@@ernst-dietmarhorstmann4949 Dein Kommtar ist gut 👍viele Grüsse von einer Brasilianerin 🇧🇷 die seit 20 Jahre im schönen Heidelberg 🇩🇪 lebt 😁
@@sa-call-sa Obrigado ! Vocês são as mulheres mais bonitas do mundo. Eu viajei muito. Mas também estou casado há 20 anos. Deus te abençoe! Tudo de bom de Hamburgo/Alemanha
The backstory here is that Stevie Wonder was due to perform but his backing track-CD went missing so he couldn't go on stage. In the meantime, whilst searching for the CD, they wanted someone else to perform a few songs to keep the crowd warm. Tracy Chapman had performed earlier that day for a handful of people and was still hanging around backstage. So she was asked to play again, this time for a full Wembley stadium.
No one knows her and everyone's expecting Stevie Wonder.
So she steps on stage and starts playing in fornt of 60.000 people.
The rest is history.
I believe divine intervention occured that day and that our almighty Father made sure the backing track went missing for a while so the world would hear Tracy's voice.
Wonderful
@@norahsakwa3707 the thrill and love that makes you to remember this great story is profoundly amazing just as close to the music itself.
Wow! Thankyou for sharing !
Lucky break nothing to do with almighty.
I didn’t know that: totally awesome & she deserved that opportunistic spot!
I first heard this song when I was 20 year old kid in prison in 2009. I Went in at 17. Got my GED, did a Computing course and got trusty status. Me and 7 other inmates worked at the Kampala Rd Food Bank after completing the Computing course. I fought tears hearing this song on the bus ride at 5am on the way to work and this song still makes me tear up today.
face-pink-tears😹
Sa voix, sa guitare devant 60'000 spectateurs lors du LiveAid 85. Mémorable !!!!
Who is listening three decades after the releasing of this song??
Desire Bunisard me💕💕💕💕💕
I bought this album on cassette, when it came out! So.. yeah
She is freaking awesome🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤❤🧡❤💙💚❣
1988! Since 32 years!❤️ Tracy’s music is by my side!
My girl💋❤❤❤
My God. The way she looked so natural, so raw, so beautiful
Absolutely agree! So cool and yet without a trace of arrogance about it
I love Tracy. She's so beautiful, and her voice conveys so much emotion. I love her personality and demeanor as well.
This was her encore performance back then when the original band that should pay there was late or so. I don't remember the full story but she performed there as a warm up and people wanted encore cause the actual band didn't show up. So she could play again and she was overwhelmed how many people love this song. This kicked off her career!
Seriously... I was just a little gay white boy and I was like "am I allowed to hear this?" when it first came out. I was shook, and I've not shaken this feeling since. Finally, the tables **are** starting to turn. BLACK LIVES MATTER.
Absolutely.
I was 26 when her album came out. I would listen over and over. I am nearly 62 now. So glad she’s back. Now I am back to listening to her over and over.
Oh wow! Me too. I was like 36 when I first heard her. And boy my heart could so relate.
Same here
Just a song that speaks for the current times in this country! Let’s wake up & rise up!!!!
THIS IS NOT JUST A SONG THIS IS A CALLING TO RISE UP AND TAKE THE FIGHT, TURN THE TABLES OF STRUGGLE AND TO TAKE WHAT THE CAPITALISTS HAVE TAKEN FROM US
100% it’s a rising call for working people to take back their rights and stopped being screwed by socialism for the rich!
No playback and she hits every single note in front of 60k people. One of the greatest artists in our life
Alexander Berg basically a studio quality voice on stage. Unreal
Like Joan Armatrading
every single one. it's amazing...
JuPpppP
👍👍👍👍👍🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
who is coming from 2020 , all the love for tracy
She is a natural beauty, and the voice .. Love you Tracy.
2020 and beyond
Here
Bernie in 2020 got me here.
Since 1959 until I die
This track taps into the little rebel inside all of us. If you've ever been hurt, abused, neglected or mistreated, this song gives you space & time to think & get your thoughts in order. It won't solve your problems, but it will gently hold you & help you make that first important step towards improving your life. Thanks Tracy, for giving the world this beautiful & healing work of art.
Beautiful words
Sure it's like she composed the song from her personal experience,she sang this song with passion
Well written, thanks.
❤
You are a poet...or a songwritter
She is gold. THIS is her best song.
I’m 78, and have been listening to Trace Chapman since day one. I still remember the thrill of hearing Fast Car for the first time (released as a single in 1988). She brought us eight studio albums and two compilations (Collection in 2001 and Greatest Hits in 2015). She seems to have retired, but her songs are timeless and have no expiration date.
she is actually not retired, she just haven't released any music since 2008, she was on the Late Show last year though.
Sue thanks for made me know she is a woman ☺️ I thought she is a man 🤣
Live im Zimbabwe
@@mupine67 Who cares about that?...This woman is a gifted individual...truly an artist
2021 summer
I discovered Tracy Chapman just about two years ago, when I was at the most dark place of my life. I am not kidding when I say that she literally saved my life with her music.
Glad to hear she saved you. She saved me too, and she still does even now.
That's great. I remember when she first game out. Believe me people were like wow who is this. Whenever I hear her it takes me back to the best time of my life.
I believe you and I can totally see why
and now, how are you?? Hope better, I wish this for you and all the people in 'difficulties'. Un abbraccio da Italia
I have the same story, except mine started in 1988. 34-years later, I still listening to her music.
The look in her eyes as she sings 😍🔥🔥
One of the strongest and most impressive messages combined with a one in a billion voice, thank you Tracy. This performance is part of my life, never stopped listening
❤❤❤
More than 30 years later, and this song has so much more meaning now than ever! 🇺🇸 PREACH Tracy, PREACH!
Testify
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🇺🇸🇺🇸YES Trump 2024🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@LOLLYPOPPE what the hell tracy Chapman disagrees with you nerd
Anthem of 2022 and beyond.
by my hand to god I saw Tracy busking in Harvard Square back in the early 80s looonnnggggg before she became famous. Had no idea who she was but stopped to listen to her along with about 30 other people. About 5 years later I heard FAST CAR playing in my dorm at UMass and my mouth dropped. I knew that voice, the beautiful, deep soulful voice. Went into the room and asked who that was. The girl, Debbie, handed me the album. Holy crap! It was her!
That is so cool✌🏻
Alistair Cookie she is favored
That so cool for you to witness her talent before she became famous.
Cherish that moment forever, i grew up listening to her, am only 19 but i wish i could've met her or seen her live.
Wonderful talent
@@lermink_ Tracy Chapman is alive and well. Maybe you'll get to see her yet! If she comes to Seattle, I'll be the first to get a concert ticket!
She's the best!
This is easily the best live version of any song I have ever heard. Mindblowlingly talented.
Why, at 48, have I only just discovered this track?!!!! 💙💙💙
I love Tracy Chapman. Raw talent, and raw beauty... A combination rarely seen in today’s world of artificial manufacture....
This song. As relevant as it has ever been.
Agreed, especially now worldwide!
@@jeffm623 Yeah lets have another communist revolution, what could go wrong.
'bout time
Mimo Slavich All those reported deaths under Stalin and Chairman Mau is fake news. They were benevolent leaders who brought freedom to their people. Stalin even made sure vodka was cheap so the masses could celebrate the revolution on a daily basis.
@@richardbrough4900 No. Fuck Stalin
Even the Beatles would have wept in envy of this simple, soulful masterpiece. One of the most underrated performers of modern times.
she's singing in front of a packed stadium. That's hardly underrated :)
@@barbarianofficial3818 she should be held up as one of the greatest musical artists in history. Shes underrated
The Beatles were shit. She’s a real performer
@@alioc3298 you sound ignorant as fuck right now and stupid
Beatles stole Black artist music, so did elvis
She is so shy as she writes a chapter in music history and builds a myth around her person while giving her songs to the world at this moment. - People, go and read her story, she came out and made music and went back to live a normal life as a mother.
This song gets better with each passing decade. And Tracey has a one of a kind voice. I can’t even think of anyone that comes close to this.
No one.
This song literally never fails to give me chills!
Im here witchoo
chillllls
Especially NOW! I ❤️ her music!
Still waiting on those tables to turn tho..
One day Tracy, one day.
Literally just gave me chills as I read this
One guitar, one voice, and still more to say than most of today’s musicians combined
And her time as well
She's great!!!! amazing!!!!
Could not have put it better
Best comment!
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Where's that darn revolution when you need it. Like a whisper! Love you Ms. Chapman. Cried like a tiny baby through your Grammy performance. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!
not in your head for sure
do something men, are you going to DO something or you stay with papa and mama and your little brain? Si querés te lo explico en espagnol ou la langue de PARIS J habite? le example de tout ce que je deteste de le system ou on habite c'est extacrtement TOI T' est le gagnante !
Of course, I'm here after the Grammys! This brings back so many memories. I love her! ❤
Oh man, I remember all the "big" artists performing at the Mandella tribute concert in '88. Chapman rolls up with her guitar and sings this and Fast Car, then quietly walks off. True talent that doesn't seek the "celebrity" status of todays artists.
+Richard Hawkes Also, though this might sound frivolous, her voice and guitar are as pure as her lyrics. NO FUCKING AUTOTUNE. So she's even honest technically.
tekobari Fair point. I do think there are plenty of talented singers out there today though. They just get bullied out of the way by the ever-increasing barrage of pop we have to swallow!
Well said Richard Hawkes. There must be a mistake: this artist should have 4M subscribers, not 4k...
Well said Richard I agree, she does not seek celebrity and fame but she is a quality human being and she loves music, a very rare talent, we could do with a few more like her.
Special thanks for the end of your comment. That's true! And that's the essence!
Maybe my favourite singer of all time - I worked hard when I was younger and saved up money to buy her music. Tracy Chapman is all heart, soul, talent, wisdom, authenticity, and her blessing and gift to all of us is her ability to tell stories - stories about life, love, sacrifice, inequity, intolerance, cruelty, despair, and hope that reach inside of you and make you think about really important issues and who you are and want to be. LEGEND is an inadequate word for this brilliant human. (Thank you Tracy Chapman for shining your light!)
Тоже так думаю!
So with you!
The Russian post says s/he thinks so, too.
I think whom listen tracy feel same things. And remember bad and Hard times.
@Gwyneth Evans Very well written. Thank you.
What a timeless song of pure genuine talent! Amazing Tracy Chapman!!
Seeing her live was a highlight of my life- she filled the room with the most incredible deep energy - it was pure rapture from start to finish
Deep energy, like the tides; I like that description.
America so desperately needs to listen to this woman in 2019
Not just America...all the World must listen this
They are starting to! (Oct/19)
I love Tracy Chapman..... I’m also a signer..... I will learn this song so I can cover it..... Agree completely.... the even younger than I am generation needs to learn and not forget these great classics - they still hold true today
And vote for #BernieSanders2020
Listening in October 2019 right now commemcing a Revolution in Chile ..
That smile at the end... warms my heart. 🥰
EXACTLY! It says to me, "I wasn't sure if I could, but I just did something great. May it help you and the world around as much as it did my soul. Now when's the next breakthrough?"
It sure does!
Oh gosh same here!!! And the way the wind blew in her hair was beautiful. I wish I could have hair like hers. I have really thin baby fine board straight blonde hair but always wanted hair like hers. Style and color .
But overall everything about her is so natural and beautiful
Yes! Her smile
@@Mariettasss yes ! ❤️. And the tears in her eyes 💕💍
Gets me every time. I remember watching this performance on TV, carried live: my friend and I had never heard of Tracy Chapman, but after she had finished we just looked at one another and shook our heads in disbelief, it was so awesome: timeless song, great lyrics, amazing voice, incredible performance. Blew us away. Still does. Keep on rockin' Tracy.
She's great
Had you heard any of her songs but didn't know it was her? Like Give Me One Reason? Or Fast Car? Anyhow, that's terrific that you and your friend liked her and were so blown away by the performance! You recognized greatness. It's unique to be so unpretentious.
Makes me shiver. So moving. Her eyes wandering over the audience. The audience just listening...
1 woman, 1 guitar, 1 mic, and nothing else but pure amazing talent ❤️
She is gifted. hi Sandra
@@scottwilson3984 hey 👋
@@sandrabirch6551 How are you?
amen
This song is a living proof that Classics will never go out of style
Miss the days songs actually had a meaning
Thank you Tracy ❤️
I love her cute smile at the end of her performance 😍😍😍
Talk about killer dimples.
She has always the nices smile
I went to a concert back in the 80's and it started off with an unheard of black woman and her guitar. I was less than enthusiastic when she began , but after just a few seconds I became a Tracy Chapman fan for life.
We need more women like this to inspire our lost generation
Agreed. New generation need to open their eyes to reality and make music on what is happening now
Lost generation?
Not that lost though. We use high technologies very well. We try to save the earth and so many things....
Agreed!
Yes
Voice of a hurricane and then a little shy smile.
ist einfach nur grnial
Absolutely 💯
👏👏👏Well & truthfully said👍🙏💙
one of the most beautiful voices i have ever heard ! Tracy is not only a good singer , she is the revolution , your voice and this song is powerful
How I miss these days! Tracy one of the best songwriters. And her voice is beautiful and unique. This is music!
Her voice, her words are giving me goosebumps
Her voice, her words, her soulful eyes, her modest grin after finishing, etc., etc. Magnificent performance from a true artist!
She's so beautiful 😌💚
Yo Soy Jenizis I know right!! That's bae right there!
Looks like a man.
Gorgeous!!
She really is ❤️
domydishes “It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt”
Mark Twain
One of the most beautiful songs I heard in college. This cannot be forgotten - these were the years 2003-2008 of AWF Katowice Poland. Greetings 2024 Raptor
The thing with this gal is I that like her approach, feeling to life, her anger. She's right. Luv. And the music too I like . Did I mention that she's beautiful?
Such talent,, very inspirational! This women doesn't get enough coverage, she is an amazing talent.
❤️🙏
Oh no, her fans are huge in the 2000,s I think, I got a ticket for 120@ harvad Square just perfect sold out great crowd,
Fantastic.... when she says.. "a whisper"
Trop super cette grande femme célèbre pleins des talents voix unique des doigts magique wouahou tracy chapmam 💓🎸🎶
An absolutely PERFECT musical performance.
No theatrics just PURE TALENT ❤❤❤
I was a teenager in this restless crowd and was mesmerized by her voice! Im 50 years old now and this song hits different today but still a classic from a solid performer❤
Really
Hello how're you?
To be there. Tell us more!!!
Zulu
@@mzwandilemzana172 She definitely looks like she has Zulu in her genetic makeup. So beautiful. As a pre teen in South Africa in 1994 her music was balm of golden light. One of my favorite memories ever was walking in PMB central and a young Rasta boy (about 5) and his sister (about 11) were singing anf playing this on their beaten up box guitar sitting on a monument. They silenced all the noise for me. It still gives me goosebumps thinking about it +20 years later.
The raw power of that voice still breaks my heart, almost 30 years later. Tracy Chapman is a once-in-a-generation talent. People still yearning to be free. God willing, we'll get there some day.
We will one day
I bought her cd back in 1988 and have listened to Tracy ever since. She reaches your soul.
Tracy Chapman one of the best musicians with a message of all time!
Especially now
You deserve a BILLION VIEWS. Your songs changed my life when they came out. Let alone now. LOVE YOU TRACY
I've always loved her voice, and that hint of a smile. You can tell that something is
going on inside her. She is made of good stuff.
Can't beat this ...my hands are up for this... She's good
So so true man
She seems to know something we don't know😁😁😁
2023 💕
This is my favorite song by Tracy Chapman, One of the most meaningful songs ever! L. G.
A mais de 30 anos, em um pais colonizador, um estádio icônico, essa mulher deixou essa mensagem de luta e resistência! Merece qqr e toda reverência, ser humano iluminado, sem falar do talento e da voz ❤
First LP I bought when I visited Westgermany after the wall came down, still got it today. We talked about a Revolution AND had one in Eastgermany. I am truly grateful for this once in a livetime experience and of course for this song. Thank you, Tracy Chapman, after more than 30 years.
1998 - I was in grade 4, I borrowed my mum's cassette. It was an introduction to this magnificent artist. A revolution in herself. There'll never be another TC. Thank you for the music 💟
Every time I watch this video I am captured by Tracy's total presence. Magical, soulful and so beautiful. A true legend!
This is one of my favourite songs ever. Everything about it makes me smile. Its pure, unadulterated, musical perfection
Her voice, the lyrics she sings, the tone, the way its put together. Its absolutely unmatchable
And that voice. Good god, how can someone sound so good?
Tracy is a very strong activist on issues that have been a problem to society. Great job, Tracy.
I'm 16 and Tracy Chapman is mind blowing. This is the true pure way to use our musical gifts. May God keep you all in His loving arms during these times✨
gives me goosebumps every time. A TRUE artist in every sense of the word.
She was blessed with a melodious and harmonious voice. ❤️
Goosebumps, watery eyes, and lots of hope every time I hear this song.
TIMELESS. THIS WILL LIVE FOREVER. HER LYRICS KEEP ON MAKING SENSE EVEN TODAY AND ALWAYS.
JuPppppP
It does, love her.
One women with her guitar and her voice on a stage. Thousands of people listening to her. This is what pure love for art is about
私が中学生の時に初めて購入したCDです。色褪せない素晴らしい歌をありがとう
2021, July. This song is still relatable, powerful and absolutely necessary.
100%
A-fucking-men
A guitar is a means of necessity for revolution
Yes powerful
Te admiro ❤
As a kid, I listened to this song enjoying her deep voice and thinking of this music as of a proud anthem. Today I see how actually delicate, elegant and fragile this woman looks and feels.
Je suis une île ce que tu interprete c'est notre Histoire merci bokou Tracy Chapman 🎸 l love you foooort 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
KT the big boss
Heleen koudijs
Stef bos pappa
WE NEED TO LOOK 👀 TO THE Olympic games and THE GAMES OF ALL PARTIES THAT THAT PART REENFORCING THE TURE VALUES OF FAIR PLAY AND NOT DISCRIMINATE AGAINST THE AMAZING PEOPLE WHO PROVE THEY R THE BEST THE WORLD 🌍 AS TO OFFER... so to u ppl we look 👀 to the future xxxxxxxxx
With Tracey, what you see and hear is pure ability and soul. There is no heavy editing, no fancy pedals etc. She’s about as pure as it gets.
One of the greatest song writers of all time
Our society needs a revolution. A revolution of love.
amen...
❤️
❤️the revolution of the human world
WWG1WGA 💕
thank you.
I think she’s beautiful inside and out! Her voice is gorgeous!
It was here where she was revealed to the world. She was supposed to be filling in between renowned acts and the revellers were blown away. It's less than three months since the death of a South African phenomenon, Zahara, who I wish should've listened to Tracy's sophomore hit "Crossroads" in a bid to save her self and protect what's hers.
This is one of the most purest, amazing, profoundly talented musicians, ever. True talent, true Soul. We need more of THIS. 💚
Dang. I must have heard this song a thousand times on the radio back in the 80s while out partying with my friends and was always floored with the unbelievably powerful lyrics, strikingly beautiful melody, voice of an angel, and grounding simplicity of a somewhat unknown artist making such a culturally significant and beautiful contribution to the music world with nothing more than a single voice and acoustic guitar, so organic and pure. I could go on but already said too much about someone who would most likely prefer to remain humble and true to the essence of the era and future generations to come.
Beautiful words
The attention seekers usually have little to offer, the most humble usually have the most to offer for those who pay attention and appreciate realness 💖💖💖
Well said!
REVOLUTION begins in the minds of the revolutionary
Tracy Chapman is a woman who has a voice that touches hearts.
From her playing style to her outstanding voice, Tracy is an absolute treasure.
Tracy Chapman is one wonderful woman that we have to respect and cherish, she's the best
Everyone is talking about her voice and simplicity. She is talking about the revolution.
Just a woman with a guitar with a POWERFUL voice -- that's what I call CLASS!!!
My country Kenya needs to hear this right about now. It's about time for that revolution. Time to claim our place at the table. Such a soulful masterpiece from this Legend.
So true@!!