Word: elektra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...imagined that Chapman would be so big a success so soon. In 1988 Elektra Records released Tracy Chapman, eleven spare, well-crafted folk songs by a 24-year-old Tufts University graduate. Some were about unrequited love, yes, but others spoke of homelessness, racism and revolution. The album became Billboard's No. 1 pop album and sold 10 million copies. Chapman won three Grammy Awards, including Best New Artist. Last year, on the Amnesty International tour, she crisscrossed the globe with Sting, Bruce Springsteen and Peter Gabriel, performing before stadiums of cheering fans on five continents. In May she will...
...from Los Angeles' Boyle Heights section. "He brought a lot of energy and good acting instincts to the role," reports Nicholson. "I think the result is fabulous." Blades and his band Son del Solar (Sound of the Tenement) are in the midst of completing three new records for the Elektra label -- a live recording plus two studio albums -- to be released over the next three years. He will also try to squeeze in a drama workshop at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, based on Dead Man Out, the HBO movie in which he stirringly portrays a death-row prisoner...