Tenor Saxophone Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1269352 By Tracy Chapman. By Tracy Chapman. Arranged by Leo Silva. Pop,Singer/Songwriter. Individual part. 4 pages. MP Sheet Music #861872. Published by MP Sheet Music (A0.1269352). Fast Car is a song by American singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman.Chapman's appearance on the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute helped the song become a top-ten hit in the United States, reaching number six on the Billboard Hot 100. In the United Kingdom, it reached number five on the UK Singles Chart in 1988.Fast Car received three Grammy Award nominations: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, the latter of which it won. It also received an MTV Video Music Award nomination for Best Female Video in 1989.According to Metro Weekly critic Chris Gerard, Fast Car tells a grittily realistic story of a working poor woman trying to escape the cycle of poverty, set to folk rock music.In June 1988, Chapman appeared at the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute concert. Chapman performed Fast Car itself would reach number six on the Billboard Hot 100 the same week.In April 2011 it reached the fourth position of the British charts after Michael Collins made a cover version on Britain's Got Talent.
