Tracy Chapman-Tracy Chapman (1988)

Tracy Chapman's songs were never surrounded by beautiful words and beautiful passages as was usual in other singer-songwriters, her music was synonymous with raw stories told in a sincere and harsh way.
Chapman is one of the few black singers and songwriters in pop rock history to make her message salable.
With her first album she would reach number one on the North American and English charts with a sober album, from the cover itself to the arrangements, her song "Talkin' Bout a Revolution" opened the door to glory, in it she described cruelly and realism the frustration of the unemployed, "Fast Car" is a distressing subject and a lament in the face of the uncertain future of young people, it also addressed racism with "Across The Lines", human misery "Why" or the isolation of the couple "Baby I Can Hold You".