WV 32
After a great success in WV31, representing in Porvoo and hopefully also in Helsinki: The great Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman, born March 30, 1964 in Cleveland, Ohio, is an afro-american singer-songwriter. She learned the guitar and the piano when she was a child, also began to write songs in her early days. After she finished a private school in Connecticut, she studied anthropology (the study of humans) and africanology on private Tufts University. One of her university mates had contact to the records, and so she could sign her first contract in 1987. She became famous in 1988 at the birthday party for Nelson Mandela, when Stevie Wonder cancelled his performance and Tracy came to play another time as interval act and performing some songs of her first album, named
'Tracy Chapman'. Later the year, she toured, with big artists like Bruce Springsteen and Sting, for Amnesty International. Playing folk-rock music, she lays the focus of her songs on her sociocritical texts, singing e.g. about social problems and the downside of the American Dream. Tracy Chapman awarded 4 Grammy's.
The song '
Talkin Bout A Revolution', was released on her first album. Please vote for
and Tracy Chapman!
Don't you know you're talking about a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
Don't you know they're talking about a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
While they're standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in unemployment lines
Sitting around waiting for a promotion
Don't you know you're talking about a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
Poor people are gonna rise up
And get their share
Poor people are gonna rise up
And take what's theirs
Don't you know you better run, run, run,
run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run,
run, run
Oh I said you better run, run, run, run,
run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run
Finally the tables are starting to turn
Talking about a revolution
Finally the tables are starting to turn
Talking about a revolution oh no
Talking about a revolution oh no
While they're standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in unemployment lines
Sitting around waiting for a promotion
Don't you know you're talking about a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
And finally the tables are starting to turn
Talking about a revolution
Finally the tables are starting to turn
Talking about a revolution oh no
Talking about a revolution oh no
Talking about a revolution oh no