Tracy Chapman's secret love 事件／事情／状勢 with The Color Purple author Alice Walker 明らかにする／漏らすd and why singer chose a reclusive life away from スポットライト
Tracy Chapman?made an incredible 復帰 at the 66th 年次の Grammy Awards last Sunday 成し遂げるing her debut 1988 選び出す／独身 急速な／放蕩な Car と一緒に Luke 徹底的に捜すs, the country crooner who helped its resurgence into popular culture.
And yet, the four-time Grammy 勝利者 - who's turning the big 6-0 next month - prefers a reclusive lifestyle and has managed to keep her personal life very 私的な.
'I have a public life that's my work life and I have my personal life,' Tracy explained 支援する in 2002.
'In some ways, the 決定／判定勝ち（する） to keep the two things separate relates to the work I do. I don't think I would have anything 利益／興味ing to 令状 about if I didn't give myself time to have a life, to hang out with my friends or read a 調書をとる／予約する or travel someplace I've always 手配中の，お尋ね者 to see. It can be a very 半端物 or unreal lifestyle 存在 a musician, going from one hotel room to the next.'
Chapman never 公式に （機の）カム out as a lesbian but, in the 中央の-1990s, she 乗る，着手するd on a love 事件／事情／状勢 with The Color Purple author Alice Walker.
Tracy Chapman made やめる a 復帰 at the 66th 年次の Grammy Awards last Sunday 成し遂げるing her debut 1988 選び出す／独身 急速な／放蕩な Car と一緒に Luke 徹底的に捜すs, the country crooner who helped its resurgence into popular culture
And yet, the four-time Grammy 勝利者 - who's turning the big 6-0 next month - prefers a reclusive lifestyle and has managed to keep her personal life very 私的な
At 79, the Pulitzer Prize 勝利者 is 20 years older than the Ohio-born musician, but she 'loved' their 'delicious' under-the-レーダ romance.
'It was 静かな to you maybe but that's because you didn't live in our area,' Alice told The 後見人 in 2006.
'It was delicious and lovely and wonderful and I 全く enjoyed it and I was 完全に in love with her but it was not anybody's 商売／仕事 but ours.'
The Broadway musical of Walker's novel was adapted into Blitz Bazawule's $100M-予算 批判的に-acclaimed mo 争う The Color Purple, which only earned $64.1M at the 全世界の box office last year.
一方／合間, Tracy's 見解／翻訳／版 of 急速な／放蕩な Car just 発射 to No. 1 on the iTunes 最高の，を越す Songs chart and her self-肩書を与えるd debut album also landed the No. 1 位置／汚点／見つけ出す.
Luke's 急速な／放蕩な Car cover topped Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart and 得点する／非難する／２０d a CMA Award last November - making Chapman the first 黒人／ボイコット woman to 達成する both.
'I never 推定する／予想するd to find myself on the country charts, but I'm 栄誉（を受ける）d to be there,' the former busker told Billboard last July.
'I'm happy for Luke and his success and 感謝する that new fans have 設立する and embraced 急速な／放蕩な Car.'
Tracy?never 公式に （機の）カム out as a lesbian but, in the 中央の-1990s, she 乗る，着手するd on a love 事件／事情／状勢 with The Color Purple author Alice Walker
At 79, the Pulitzer Prize 勝利者 (pictured left in 1998) is 20 years older than Chapman (権利), but she 'loved' their 'delicious' under-the-レーダ romance
Alice told The 後見人 in 2006: 'It was 静かな to you maybe but that's because you didn't live in our area...It was delicious and lovely and wonderful and I 全く enjoyed it and I was 完全に in love with her but it was not anybody's 商売／仕事 but ours' (pictured in 2004)
The Broadway musical of Walker's novel was adapted into Blitz Bazawule's $100M-予算 批判的に-acclaimed movie The Color Purple (pictured), which only earned $64.1M at the 全世界の box office last year?
The Ohio-born musician's 見解／翻訳／版 of 急速な／放蕩な Car just 発射 to No. 1 on the iTunes 最高の，を越す Songs chart and her self-肩書を与えるd debut album also landed the No. 1 位置／汚点／見つけ出す
Chapman told Billboard last July: 'I never 推定する／予想するd to find myself on the country charts, but I'm 栄誉（を受ける）d to be there. I'm happy for Luke and his success and 感謝する that new fans have 設立する and embraced 急速な／放蕩な Car'
The North Carolina-born 33-year-old?will next compete for five トロフィーs - 含むing song of the year for 急速な／放蕩な Car - at the 49th People's Choice Awards, which 空気／公表する February 18 on NBC
The former busker hadn't been seen in public since 成し遂げるing her 1988 跡をつける Talkin' '一区切り／（ボクシングなどの）試合 a 革命 事実上 on The Late Show with Seth Meyers four years ago to encourage 投票者s to 参加する in the 2020 大統領の 選挙
Tracy?- who put out a Greatest 攻撃する，衝突するs in 2015 (pictured) - hasn't 解放（する）d new music since her eighth studio album Our 有望な 未来 支援する in 2008
Chapman?will next be 栄誉（を受ける）d with the Elaine Weissman Lifetime 業績／成就 Award at the 2024 International Folk Music Awards, which take place February 21 at the Westin 栄冠を与える 中心 Hotel in Kansas City, MO
The North Carolina-born 33-year-old 負傷させる up losing the Grammy for best country 単独の 業績／成果 to Chris Stapleton for his 跡をつける White Horse.
But Luke will next compete for five トロフィーs - 含むing song of the year for 急速な／放蕩な Car - at the 49th People's Choice Awards, which 空気／公表する February 18 on NBC.
Tracy hadn't been seen in public since 成し遂げるing her 1988 跡をつける Talkin' '一区切り／（ボクシングなどの）試合 a 革命 事実上 on The Late Show with Seth Meyers four years ago to encourage 投票者s to 参加する in the 2020 大統領の 選挙.
Chapman - who put out a Greatest 攻撃する，衝突するs in 2015 - hasn't 解放（する）d new music since her eighth studio album Our 有望な 未来 支援する in 2008.
The Give Me One 推論する／理由 singer will next be 栄誉（を受ける）d with the Elaine Weissman Lifetime 業績／成就 Award at the 2024 International Folk Music Awards, which take place February 21 at the Westin 栄冠を与える 中心 Hotel in Kansas City, MO.
