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TIL Tracy Chapman a was relatively unknown performer invited to play for Nelson Mandela’s birthday party until, due to technical difficulties with Stevie Wonder’s equipment, she was brought back upstage to play Fast Car, silencing the crowd of an estimated 80,000.

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