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Sheryl Suzanne Crow was born February 11, 1962, in Kennett, Missouri
USA. She began her musical career at the age of 5, learning to play piano
and wrote her first song at age 13. Crow moved to Los Angeles in 1986
where she worked as a back-up singer for Michael Jackson, Eric
Clapton, Rod Stewart, Don
Henley and many more.
During 1992 Crow was invited to take part in jam sessions at locals clubs.
The gathering of this Los Angeles musicians, named Tuesday Night Music
Club, recorded enough material for a full album; the record, credited
to Sheryl Crow, was finally issued by A&M Records in August 1993;
by the time "Tuesday Night Music Club" climbed into the top
3 of The Billboard 200 chart and hit the top 10 in the U.K. selling over
7 million copies; the first single, "Run Baby Run", failed to
chart and unfortunatly, soon after the album was released, two of her
former bandmates committed suicide. "Leaving Las Vegas" became
her first Modern Rock top 10 hit, the follow-up single, "All I Wanna
Do", smashed at #2 on The Billboard Hot 100 and cracked the top 5
of The Modern Rock Tracks; the album also included the slow ballad "Strong
Enough" which rose to #5 on The Billboard Hot 100 and "Can't
Cry Anymore", which scraped the bottom of the American Top 40. At
the 37th Annual Grammy ceremony she was awarded as Best New Artist and
took home two more awards: Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Record
Of The Year for the song "All I Wanna Do".
During 1995 Sheryl Crow released a remake of Led
Zeppelin's "D'yer Mak'er", the track, taken from the collection
"Encomium: A Tribute To Led Zeppelin", became a Top 40 Mainstream
radio hit.
After the death of her ex-boyfriend Kevin Gilber, who died of autoerotic
asphyxiation according to the Los Angeles County coroner's report, Crow
issued her eponymous album in September of 1996, the record immediately
climbed into the the top 10 of The Billboard 200 list and hit the top
5 of the British Albums chart; the lead single, "If It Makes You
Happy", debuted at #6 on The Modern Rock chart and also entered the
top 10 of The Billboard Hot 100; two more singles, "A Change Would
Do You Good" and "Everyday Is A Winding Road" reached the
#25 and #17 spots, respectively, on The Modern Rock chart, the latter
of which also hit #11 on The Billboard Hot 100. In early 1997 Crow's second
LP won a Grammy for Best Rock Album and the single "If It Makes You
Happy" won for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.
"The Globe Sessions", the follow-up to her self-titled album,
appeared exactly two years later, it rose to #5 on The Billboard 200,
to #3 on the Top Canadian Albums chart and peaked at #2 in Britain; the
new album began producing hits with "My Favorite Mistake" which
climbed into the top 20 of The Billboard Hot 100 and hit #26 on The Modern
Rock Tracks list; the next two singles, "Anything But Down"
and the cover of Guns N' Roses' "Sweet
Child O' Mine" continued to make a significant impact on Adult Contemporary
stations. In February of 1999, Sheryl Crow was awarded a Grammy for Best
Rock Album, a year later, she still walked away with a Grammy for Best
Female Rock Vocal Performance for "Sweet Child O' Mine".
Despite the moderate chart success of "Sheryl Crow And Friends: Live
In Central Park", in early 2001 Crow cemented her reputation as one
of the biggest winner at the Grammys when the track "There Goes The
Neighborhood" won for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.
Her fourth album, "C'mon, C'mon", was issued in the spring of
2002, the record shot to #2 on both U.S. and Canadian Albums charts, on
the strenght of the first single, "Soak Up The Sun", which hit
#17 on The Billboard Hot 100 and smashed at #1 on The Adult Top 40 chart;
the album included "Steve McQueen", which was awarded a Grammy
for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, her fourth in that category.
In early 2003, Crow with Kid Rock entered
the top 10 of The Billboard Hot 100 with the single track "Picture",
taken from the album "Cocky", released by Rock two years earlier.
By the fall of 2003 she released the collection, "The Very Best Of
Sheryl Crow", which contained many of her hit singles, as well as
two new songs: "Light In Your Eyes" and "The First Cut
Is The Deepest"; the latter soared to #14 in U.S. Hot 100 and peaked
at #1 on Adult Contemporary charts sending the compilation to the #2 slot
on The Billboard 200 and platinum status.
Sheryl Crow's fifth studio record, "Wildflower", which debuted
at #2 on The Billboard 200 and at #1 on the Top Canadian Albums charts,
was released in September 2005; the 11-song set included the Adult Contemporary
top 20 hit "Good Is Good".
Crow will return February 5, 2008, with her next A&M/Interscope album,
"Detours"; the album was recorded at the artist's Nashville
farm and will feature “14 or 15”, including the new single "Shine
Over Bayblon", of the 24 songs put to tape.
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