ENTERTAINMENT
January 8, 1997
Best Album * Beck, "Odelay" * Celine Dion, "Falling Into You" * The Fugees, "The Score" * The Smashing Pumpkins, "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" * Various artists, "Waiting to Exhale" soundtrack * Best Record * Tracy Chapman, "Give Me One Reason" * Eric Clapton, "Change the World" * Celine Dion, "Because You Loved Me" * Alanis Morissette, "Ironic" * The Smashing Pumpkins, "1979" * Most Nominations Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds: 12 The Smashing Pumpkins: 7 Tracy Chapman: 5 Vince Gill: 5
ENTERTAINMENT
August 4, 1996
Tracy Chapman is an artist who has seen her star rise, fall and rise again. "New Beginning," her latest collection, is the singer-songwriter's most popular album since her 1988 self-titled debut. The album sold 78,000 copies last week according to SoundScan, and is currently at No. 6 on The Times' Southern California chart. Nas' "It Was Written" slips to No.2 behind Alanis Morissette's relentless "Jagged Little Pill" on the local front, but holds on to its national No.
ENTERTAINMENT
July 22, 1996 | STEVE HOCHMAN
It was probably among the more unlikely sights and sounds at the Greek Theatre so far this season: Tracy Chapman not only singing Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Proud Mary" for an encore, but dancing as she did so. And she even managed to get a little nice and rough with it. Of course, Tina Turner's still got nothing to worry about, but seeing Chapman liven up like that, bouncing in front of her five-piece band, was a bit of a revelation.
ENTERTAINMENT
December 9, 1995 | RICHARD CROMELIN, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
The "Fast Car" of Tracy Chapman's 1988 debut hit was a seductive and desirable thing, but to the song's narrator it became a symbol of superficiality and avoidance, a vehicle in which her lover escaped commitment and responsibility. For Chapman, pop stardom was in the same category.
ENTERTAINMENT
September 21, 1992 | STEVE HOCHMAN
Current events have caught up with Tracy Chapman. Accordingly, she opened her concert at the Pacific Amphitheatre's scaled-down "Pavilion" configuration Saturday with a song that likened the night "the riots begin" to the death of "the dream of America" but closed the set with another song calling for "poor people (to) rise up and get their share."
ENTERTAINMENT
September 21, 1992 | STEVE HOCHMAN, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
Current events have caught up with Tracy Chapman. Like many Americans, the singer seems a bit perplexed by the urban strife that exploded last April in Los Angeles. Accordingly, she opened her concert at the Pacific Amphitheatre on Saturday with a song that spoke of the night "the riots begin" as the death of "the dream of America," and yet closed the set with another song calling for "poor people (to) rise up and get their share."