Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” was written nearly 40 years ago, but we’re now in year two of its second life—and it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. Chapman, now 60, released “Fast Car ...

Jason Kempin/Getty; Georges De Keerle/Getty When a then-unknown Tracy Chapman performed her debut single "Fast Car" at the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute concert in 1988, the moving ballad ...

John Shearer/Getty Tracy Chapman’s appearance at the 66th annual Grammy Awards helped take “Fast Car” to the top of the charts. After the singer-songwriter, 59, took the stage with Luke ...

Tracy Chapman made a rare public appearance to perform her 1988 song “Fast Car” with the country singer Luke Combs at the Grammy Awards Kevin Wolf/Associated Press Last year, as Combs’s ...