It seems to me that that image was created for female folk singers because they actually had a lot more control than other women in the music scene…They wrote their own songs, they played them, they performed by themselves — there you have a picture of a very independent person, and trying to make them seem emotional and fragile and all puts a softer edge on it. As if there was something wrong with being independent.
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Tracy Chapman was a contemporary American singer-songwriter. Tracy Chapman is an American singer-songwriter. She was signed to Elektra Records by Bob Krasnow in 1987. Read more on Wikipedia →