- Won the Best New Artist Grammy at the 31st Annual Grammy Awards. Also won Best Contemporary Folk Recording and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female for the same year. At the 39th Annual Grammy Awards, she won the Best Rock Song award for "Give Me One Reason".
- Her first album, Tracy Chapman (1988), is ranked number 263 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
- Graduated from Tufts University with a degree in Anthropology. Class of 1986.
- Ranked #54 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll.
- Winner of the Brit Awards for International Female and International Breakthrough Act in 1989.
- She was awarded an Honorary Master of Fine Arts Degree from the American Contemporary Theatre in 2009.
- She was awarded an Honorary Master of Fine Arts Degree from the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, California in 2009.
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