Tracy (also spelled Tracey or Traci or Trasci) is originally a British personal name, that refers to the family de Tracy or de Trasci from Tracy-Bocage in Normandy, France. There are several places called Tracy in Northern France and there are themselves a combination of the Gaulish male 's name Draccios or Latin Thracius and the well identified Celtic suffix -āko (place, property).^[1]

While the name is unisex within the United Kingdom it is more generally considered to be a female name. This may, in part, be due to its association with the' Essex Girl'. Particularly during the 1980s, alongside the name Sharon, it was a name considered to be archetypal of the 'Essex Girl'. Its popularity peaked during the 1960s, when Tracey was the sixth most popular female name and the alternate spelling Tracy was the 12th most popular.^[2]

It could refer to:

Places[link]

United States

• Tracy, California
  • Tracy Hills AVA, California wine region
  • Tracy Municipal Airport
  • Deuel Vocational Institution, a California state prison sometimes referred to as "Tracy"
• Tracy, a neighborhood in Wallingford, Connecticut
• Tracy, Indiana
• Tracy, Iowa
• Tracy, Minnesota
  • 1968 Tracy tornado
• Tracy, Missouri
• Tracy City, Tennessee
• Tracyton, Washington

Canada

• Tracy, New Brunswick
• Tracy, Quebec
• Sorel-Tracy, Quebec

France

• Tracy-Bocage, in the Calvados département, Basse-Normandy
• Tracy-le-Mont, in the Oise département, Picardy
• Tracy-le-Val, in the Oise département, Picardy
• Tracy-sur-Loire, in the Nièvre département, Centre
• Tracy-sur-Mer, in the Calvados département, Basse-Normandy

Weather[link]

• Cyclone Tracy, 25 December 1974, Northern Australia

People[link]

Surname[link]

See also Treacy

• Albert H. Tracy (1793-1859), US representative from New York
• Andrew Tracey, ethnomusicologist
• Benjamin F. Tracy (1830-1915), United States soldier and politician
• Chad Tracy, professional baseball pitcher
• Destutt de Tracy, French Enlightenment philosopher
• Hugh Tracey, ethnomusicologist
• Merlin Hanbury-Tracy, 7th Baron Sudeley
• Paul Tracy, professional automobile racer
• Phineas L. Tracy (1786-1876), US representative from New York
• Spencer Tracy, American actor
• William Tracy, American character actor
• William de Tracy (or Williame or Guillaume de Tracy), Anglo-Norman knight that took part in the assassination of Thomas Becket

First name[link]

Look up Tracy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• Trace Adkins
• Tracy Austin
• Trace Beaulieu, puppeteer, writer, and actor
• Traci Bingham, Actress
• Tracy Bonham
• Tracey E. Bregman
• Tracy Brookshaw
• Tracy W. Bush, Composer and voice actor
• Tracy Byrd, a country music singer
• Tracy Byrd (boxer)
• Tracy Chapman
• Tracy Lynn Cruz
• Tracey Curro
• Tracey Edmonds, President and CEO of Edmonds Entertainment Group, Inc.
• Tracey Emin
• Tracy Ferrie
• Tracey Gold
• Tracy Grandstaff
• Tracy Grimshaw
• Tracii Guns
• Tracy Harris
• Tracy Hickman
• Tracy Higgs
• Tracy Hines
• Tracy Kidder
• Tracy Lawrence
• Tracy Letts
• Traci Lords
• Tracy Marrow (Ice-T), rapper
• Tracy McGrady, NBA All-Star
• Tracy Middendorf
• Tracy Morgan, actor/comedian
• Tracy Nelson (disambiguation)
• Tracy Pollan
• Tracey Ross
• Tracy Scoggins
• Tracy D. Terrell
• Tracey Thorn
• Tracy Tormé
• Tracey Ullman
• Tracy Voorhees
• R. Tracy Walker
• Tracey Walter
• Tracey Wigginton
• Tracey John, musician 10:04s

Middle name[link]

• Patrick Tracy Burris (1967–2009), American spree killer

Fictional characters[link]

• Dick Tracy, a comic-book detective
• Tracey (EastEnders)
• Tracy, a character in the Battle Arena Toshinden fighting game series
• Tracy, a character in the video game EarthBound
• Tracy, a character from the 2010 comedy film Tooth Fairy
• Traci 13, a DC Comics heroine
• Tracy Barlow, a character from the English Soap Opera Coronation Street
• Tracy Beaker, a character in the book and TV series The Story of Tracy Beaker
• Tracy Bond, a character in the James Bond series
• Tracy Jordan, a character of the TV series 30 Rock
• Tracy Quartermaine Spencer, a character in the ABC soap opera General Hospital
• Tracey Sketchit (Kenji), a character in the Pokémon anime and the Pokémon manga series
• Tracy Strauss, a character in the TV series Heroes
• Tracey Stubbs, a character in the British sitcom Birds of a Feather
• Tracy Turnblad, a character in the Hairspray musical, 1988 film and 2007 film

Songs[link]

• "Tracy Jacks", by English group Blur from their 1994 album Parklife
• Tracy (song), by Scottish group Mogwai from their 1997 debut, Mogwai Young Team
• Tracy (song), by The Cuff Links on their first album Tracy in 1970
• Tracy (song), by DJ Ironik
• Tracy Hide (song), by The Wondermints from their self-titled album
• Tracie (song) by the British band Level 42
• Traci Brown (song) by Hanson

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Notes and references[link]

1. ^ Albert Dauzat et Charles Rostaing, Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de lieux en France, Librairie Guénégaud 1979. p. 682.
2. ^ [1]

Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman in Bruges in 2009
Background information
Born	(1964-03-30) March 30, 1964 (age 48)
Origin	Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Genres	Folk, blues-rock, pop, soul
Occupations	Singer-songwriter, musician
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, harp, bouzouki, banjo, clarinet, keyboards, organ, percussion, harmonica
Years active	1986–present
Labels	Elektra Records
Website	tracychapman.com

Tracy Chapman (born March 30, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her singles "Fast Car", "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution", "Baby Can I Hold You", "Crossroads", "Give Me One Reason" and "Telling Stories". She is a multi-platinum and four-time Grammy Award-winning artist.^[1]

Biography[link]

Tracy Chapman was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She was raised by her mother, who recognized Tracy's love of music and, despite not having much money, bought her a ukulele when she was just three.^[2] Chapman began playing guitar and writing songs at the age of eight. She says that she may have been first inspired to play the guitar by the television show Hee Haw.^[3]

Chapman was raised Baptist and went to an Episcopal high school.^[3] She was accepted into the program "A Better Chance", which helps minority students attend private schools. She graduated from Wooster School in Connecticut, then attended Tufts University.^[4] She graduated with a B.A. degree in anthropology and African studies.^[5]

In the mid-1990s, Chapman dated author Alice Walker.^[6] Chapman maintains a strong separation between her personal and professional lives. “I have a public life that’s my work life and I have my personal life,” she said. “In some ways, the decision to keep the two things separate relates to the work I do."^[7]

Chapman often performs at and attends charity events such as Make Poverty History, amfAR and AIDS/LifeCycle, to support social causes. She lives in San Francisco.

Career[link]

During college, Chapman began busking in Harvard Square and playing guitar in Club Passim and within other coffeehouses in Cambridge, Massachusetts.^{[citation needed]} Another Tufts student, Brian Koppelman, heard Chapman playing and brought her to the attention of his father, Charles Koppelman. Koppelman, who ran SBK Publishing, signed Chapman in 1986. After Chapman graduated from Tufts in 1987, he helped her to sign a contract with Elektra Records.^[5]

Chapman playing in Budapest, Hungary

At Elektra, she released Tracy Chapman (1988). The album was critically acclaimed, and she began touring and building a fanbase. Chapman's "Fast Car" began its rise on the US charts soon after she performed it at the televised Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute concert in June 1988; it became a number 6 pop hit on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending August 27, 1988. Rolling Stone ranked the song number 165 on their list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".^[8] It is the highest ranking song both written and performed by a female performer. "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution", the follow-up, charted at number 75 and was followed by "Baby Can I Hold You", which peaked at number 48. The album sold well, going multi-platinum and winning three Grammy Awards, including an honor for Chapman as Best New Artist. Later in 1988, Chapman was a featured performer on the worldwide Amnesty International Human Rights Now! Tour. According to the VH1 website, "Her album helped usher in the era of political correctness — along with 10,000 Maniacs and R.E.M., Chapman's liberal politics proved enormously influential on American college campuses in the late '80s."^[9]

Her follow-up album Crossroads (1989) was less commercially successful, but still achieved platinum status. By 1992's Matters of the Heart, Chapman was playing to a small and devoted audience. Her fourth album New Beginning (1995) proved successful, selling over three million copies in the U.S. The album included the hit single "Give Me One Reason", which won the 1997 Grammy for Best Rock Song and became Chapman's most successful single to date, peaking at Number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. Following a four-year hiatus, her fourth album, Telling Stories, was released in 2000. Its hit single, "Telling Stories", received heavy airplay on European radio stations and on Adult Alternative and Hot AC stations in the United States. Chapman toured Europe and the US in 2003 in support of her sixth album, Let It Rain (2002).

To support her seventh studio album, Where You Live (2005), Chapman toured major US cities in October and throughout Europe over the remainder of the year. The "Where You Live" tour was extended into 2006; the 28-date European tour featured summer concerts in Germany, Italy, France, Sweden, Finland, Norway, the UK, Russia and more. On June 5, 2006, she performed at the 5th Gala of Jazz in Lincoln Center, New York, and in a session at the 2007 TED (Technology Entertainment Design) conference in Monterey, California.

Chapman was commissioned by the American Conservatory Theater to compose music for its production of Athol Fugard's Blood Knot, a play on apartheid in South Africa, staged in early 2008.^[10]

Atlantic Records released Chapman's eighth studio album, Our Bright Future (2008).^[11] Chapman made a 26-date solo tour of Europe. She returned to tour Europe and selected North American cities during the summer of 2009. She was backed by Joe Gore on guitars, Patrick Warren on keyboards, and Dawn Richardson on percussion.^[12]

Social activism[link]

Chapman is widely regarded as a politically and socially active musician. In a 2009 interview with American radio network NPR, Chapman is quoted as saying: "I'm approached by lots of organizations and lots of people who want me to support their various charitable efforts in some way. And I look at those requests and I basically try to do what I can. And I have certain interests of my own, generally an interest in human rights."^[3] This interest in human rights can be seen lyrically in her music. Songs such as 1988's "Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution" highlight the importance of speaking up against injustice. An example is this lyric from "Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution":

Don't you know, talking 'bout a revolution sounds like a whisper / when they're standing in the welfare lines.

Chapman's song "Fast Car" also brings awareness to the struggles of poverty, with lyrics such as:

I know things will get better / you'll find work and I'll get promoted / we'll move out of the shelter / buy a bigger house and live in the suburbs

Chapman's activism extends further than her lyrics. She has performed at numerous socially aware events, and continues to do so. In 1988, Tracy Chapman performed in London as part of a worldwide concert tour to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with Amnesty International.^[13] The same year Chapman also performed in the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute, an event which raised money for South Africa's Anti-Apartheid Movement and seven children's charities.^[14] More recently, in 2004 Chapman performed (and rode) in the AIDSLifeCycle event.^[15]

Chapman has also been involved with Cleveland’s elementary schools. A music video produced by Chapman that highlights significant achievements in African-American history has become an important teaching tool in Cleveland Public Schools. Chapman also agreed to sponsor a "Crossroads in Black History" essay contest for high school students in Cleveland and other cities.^[16]

In 2004, Chapman was given an honorary doctorate in Fine Arts by her alma mater, Tufts University, recognizing her commitment to Social Activism.^[17]

I'm fortunate that I've been able to do my work and be involved in certain organizations, certain endeavors, and offered some assistance in some way. Whether that is about raising money or helping to raise awareness, just being another body to show some force and conviction for a particular idea. Finding out where the need is - and if someone thinks you're going to be helpful, then helping.

—Tracy Chapman^[18]

Discography[link]

• 1988: Tracy Chapman
• 1989: Crossroads
• 1992: Matters of the Heart
• 1995: New Beginning
• 2000: Telling Stories
• 2002: Let It Rain
• 2005: Where You Live
• 2008: Our Bright Future

Contributions[link]

Duet songs:

• "The Thrill Is Gone" with BB King from his album Deuces Wild
• "Give Me One Reason" with Eric Clapton from the album A Very Special Christmas Live
• "Baby Can I Hold You" with Pavarotti from the DVD/Album Pavarotti and Friends for Cambodia and Tibet
• "Ain't No Sunshine" with Buddy Guy from his album Bring 'Em In
• "Trench Town Rock" with Stephen and Ziggy Marley at the One Love Bob Marley All Star Tribute
• "The Maker" with Dave Matthews on October 21, 2001 at the Bridge School Benefit

Covered songs:

• "The House of the Rising Sun" – Rubáiyát (LP)
• "The Times They Are A Changin" – Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Celebration (LP)
• "O Holy Night" – A Very Special Christmas 3 (LP) and A Very Special Christmas Live (LP)
• "Three Little Birds" – Live at the One Love Bob Marley All Star Tribute
• "Get Up Stand Up" – by Bob Marley featured on the Let It Rain tour edition CD2 (LP)
• "Stand By Me" – by Ben E. King on the XM Hear Music Radio Sessions Volume 1 (LP)

Awards and nominations[link]

Grammy Award History

• 1989
  • Best New Artist (Won)
  • Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Fast Car" (Won)
  • Best Contemporary Folk Recording for Tracy Chapman (Won)
  • Album of the Year for Tracy Chapman (Nominated)
  • Record of the Year for "Fast Car" (Nominated)
  • Song of the Year for "Fast Car" (Nominated)
• 1990
  • Best Contemporary Folk Recording for Crossroads (Nominated)
• 1997
  • Best Rock Song for "Give Me One Reason" (Won)
  • Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for "Give Me One Reason" (Nominated)
  • Record of the Year for "Give Me One Reason" (Nominated)
  • Song of the Year for "Give Me One Reason" (Nominated)
  • Best Pop Album for New Beginning
• 2010
  • Best Contemporary Folk Album for Our Bright Future (Nominated)

Other Awards

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Tracy Chapman

• Tracy Chapman, Official website
• "Tracy Chapman", Atlantic Records
• "A Better Chance", Official Website, education program for minority students

Me One (born Eric Martin on August 19, 1970) is a multi-instrumentalist singer, song-writer and music producer born in Cardiff, Wales.

Educated in London and New York, he is the son of an English teacher (mother) from Kingston and a Pentecostal Church minister (father) from Port Antonio. He holds dual citizenship of both Jamaica and the UK.

His debut album as Me One was released in May 2000 on Universal-Island U.K.^[1] The 12 track release was titled As Far as I'm Concerned^[1] and featured Guru (from Gang Starr) on Do You Know and Michelle Gayle on a cover version of The Beach Boys track In My Room. The latter was released as a single, along with Game Plan and Old Fashioned. ^[2]

Aside from his solo work, Martin has written with (or for) Jeff Beck, Maxi Priest, The Roots, Capleton, Lynden David Hall and The Sugababes.^{[citation needed]}

He formed his own record label, Frenemy Records in 2005.^[3]

In 2011 he signed a recording deal with Glasgow based record label Innovation Music ^[4].

In addition to the Me One project, Eric Martin is known as an original member of Technotronic.

References[link]

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Julie Dash (born October 22, 1952 in Long Island City, Queens, New York) is a United States filmmaker. She directed Daughters of the Dust, which in 1991 became the first full-length film with general theatrical release in the United States by an African American woman. In 2004, Daughters of the Dust was included in the National Film Registry.

Biography[link]

Julie Dash initially was rejected by Hollywood executives when she pitched her first full-length film, Daughters of the Dust. Dash stated in an interview with the Boston Globe that she was turned down in a very similar systematic fashion of excluding black women from Hollywood. She was told that her film was "too different."^[1] However, remaining confident in an interview with the Detroit Free Press, Dash states "I'm a very hopeful person and I think we can accomplish a lot through film in the '90s. We're going to see a lot of film work done by black women who have different concerns than our brothers who make films [...] We have strong statements to make because we've been silenced for so long."

"Daughters of the Dust" opened to critical acclaim. The Boston Globe called it "mesmerizing"; the Atlanta Constitution described it as "poetry in motion"; and the Village Voice said that it was "an unprecedented achievement." One woman who just finished watching a sold-out New York City premiere told New York Magazine, "It's hard to explain. It makes you feel connected to all those before you that you never knew, to parents and grandparents and great-grandparents. I'm a different person now from seeing this movie. It's a rejuvenation, a catharsis. Whatever color you are, people want to feel that sense of belonging."

The plot of "Daughters of the Dust" is centered around a family of Gullahs—blacks living on islands off the southeastern coast of the United States. "Daughters of the Dust" is also the first nationally distributed feature-length film directed by an African American woman.

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Dash said that she knew very little about her South Sea Island heritage until she noticed her father's "funny accent." She soon recognized it to be Gullah, a West African-influenced English dialect preserved off the coast of Georgia, South Carolina, and northeastern Florida. As a child she was exposed to certain rituals practiced by her caretaker who would burn loose strands of Dash's hair after she combed it. She told the Village Voice that the reason for this was "so no one could get a hold of it." She also said how her caretaker would talk about "hiding [her] pictures so no one could put gopher dust on them and drive you crazy."

In 1974, Dash pursued to study film at the Leonard Davis Center for the Arts in the David Picker Film Institute and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree. While attending, Dash wrote a promotional documentary for the New York Urban Coalition called "Working Models of Success".

Dash moved to Los Angeles to attend the Center for Advanced Film Studies at the American Film Institute where she studied under filmmakers such as Jan Kadar, William Friedkin, and Slavko Vorkapich. She produced "Four Women", which was a dance film based on the Nina Simone song that won a Gold Medal for Women in Film in the 1978 Miami International Film Festival. This central theme for this film because the main focus of "Daughters of the Dust".

She stated in an interview with the Village Voice, "I stopped making documentaries after discovering Toni Morrison, Toni Cade Bambara, and Alice Walker. I wondered, why can't we see movies like this? I realized I needed to learn how to make narrative movies." Black women authors played a huge role in her decision to pursue creative film. In 1977 she directed Diary of an African Nun, which was an adaptation of a short story by Alice Walker at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Dash worked as member of the Classifications and Ratings Administrations for the Motion Picture Association of America between 1978 and 1980. Dash was assigned to a special assignment screening at the Cannes International Film Festival where co-sponsored a screening of short films in the Marche du Cinema.

In 1983, Dash directed a short called "Illusions", which was part of an ongoing series. This short explored themes such as racial and sexual discrimination. "Illusions" was critically acclaimed, receiving the Black American Cinema Society Award in 1985, and was a recipient for the Black Filmmaker Foundation's Jury Prize.^[2][3]

Julie Dash was named a 2007 USA Rockefeller Foundation Fellow and awarded a $50,000 grant by United States Artists, a public charity that supports and promotes the work of American artists.

A Detroit Free Press contributor stated, "In all of Dash's films, black women belie the Hollywood stereotypes. Dash's black woman is a complex bundle of hope and regret, joy and pain, tenderness and fury, vulnerability and strength." Dash's films became something worth watching to critics especially when it explored the depths of African American women depictions. Dash believes that Hollywood spits the same film images back at us over and over, and she wants to do something new. She proclaims in the Free Press, "We're bombarded with the same film images over and over."

She is an honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.

Filmography[link]

Director

• Making Angels (2013)^[4][5][6]
• Tupelo 77 (2012)
• Brothers of the Borderland (2004)
• The Rosa Parks Story (2002) (TV)
• Love Song (2000) (TV)
• Incognito (1999) (TV)
• Funny Valentines (1999) (TV)
• SUBWAYStories: Tales from the Underground (1997) (TV) (segment "Sax Cantor Riff")

... aka Subway (UK: DVD box title)

• "Women: Stories of Passion" (1 episode, 1997); Grip Till It Hurts (1997) TV Episode
• Tony! Toni! Tone! - "Thinking Of You" (1997) (music video)
• Adriana Evans - "Love Is All Around" (1997) (music video)
• Praise House (1991)
• Daughters of the Dust (1991)
• Illusions (1982)
• Diary of an African Nun (1977)
• Four Women (1975)
• Working Models of Success (1973)

Writer

• SUBWAYStories: Tales from the Underground (1997) (TV) (segment "Sax Cantor Riff")

... aka Subway (UK: DVD box title)

• "Women: Stories of Passion" (1 episode, 1997); Grip Till It Hurts (1997) TV Episode (teleplay)
• Daughters of the Dust (1991)
• Illusions (1982)

Literature[link]

Julie Dash, bell hooks, Toni Cade Bambara, Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman's Film, New Press 1992

References[link]

See also[link]

• L.A. Rebellion
• Women's Cinema

External links[link]

• Bibliography of books and articles about Julie Dash via UC Berkeley Media Resources Center
• Sisters in Cinema
• Rockefeller Foundation Fellows 2007
• United States Artists arts advocacy organization.

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Tracy Anderson is a celebrity dance-fitness trainer, author, and multi-platform entrepreneur. She is best known for the Tracy Anderson Method, with clients including Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Hudson, Nicole Richie, Courteney Cox, Shakira, Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jennifer Aniston, Ashley Greene, and Jennifer Lopez.^[1][2][3]

Tracy has gym locations in Los Angeles, New York City, The Hamptons, and London and has a complete DVD collection for at-home training.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Tracy Anderson Method Website
• Metamorphosis by Tracy Anderson