Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs wowed the Grammy viewers.
The beloved singer-songwriter designed a extended-awaited return to the Grammy phase Sunday evening to accomplish her 1988 strike, “Rapidly Auto,” with place star Combs, whose address of her beloved music took the charts by storm previous summertime.
Chapman received a Grammy for Most effective Woman Pop Vocal Performance’ with “Quickly Car” in 1989.
The pair had the room enraptured, with no considerably less than Oprah joining the home in providing them a standing ovation at the end.
Chapman has notably retreated from the spotlight in current a long time. Her Grammy’s general performance was her very first since singing on “Late Night with Seth Myers” in 2020. Her very last tour was practically 15 many years ago, in 2009.
Practically four many years after Chapman launched “Speedy Car,” the folk ballad turned the not likely winner of the night time at the Country Music Awards in November.
Chapman won tune of the calendar year, which is awarded to songwriters, and Combs, who reintroduced it to a new viewers with his common protect, took household single of the year.
Chapman didn’t attend that ceremony, but launched a assertion expressing “It’s definitely an honor for my song to be freshly regarded following 35 a long time of its debut.”
“Thank you to the CMAs and a distinctive thanks to Luke and all of the fans of ‘Fast Vehicle.’”
The award made Chapman the to start with Black songwriter to gain a Country New music Award.
Combs has been open about his private relationship to the track, and how his father generally played the song when he was a child, and he cherished the memory.
The Grammy functionality opened with a pre-recorded online video of Combs speaking about how his address arrived to be, and how grateful he was to Chapman for crafting it.
Music’s most important night time is back. The 2024 Grammy Awards brought all the top stars across the songs market for another A-record red carpet.
