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:: Sheryl Crow Biography ::
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Born in 1962, singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow grew up in Kennett, Mo., a rural town not far from Memphis, Tenn., and began playing piano around age six. With support from her parents, who were big band musicians, Crow began a career in music shortly after high school, moving to St. Louis to sing R&B covers. Crow broke into the industry in the 1980s and began performing as a backup singer with artists such as George Harrison, Joe Cocker, Stevie Wonder and Rod Stewart.
She began a solo career in 1993 with her bluesy A&M debut, Tuesday Night Music Club. Thanks largely to the upbeat radio/MTV hit 'All I Wanna Do,' the album went multi-platinum.
Her eponymous 1996 follow-up was equally as successful with the radio hits 'If It Makes You Happy,' 'Everyday is a Winding Road' and 'A Change (Will Do You Good).' The album went multi-platinum despite the fact that retail giant Wal-Mart refused to carry the album because of the lyric, 'Watch out sister, watch out brother / watch our children kill each other / with a gun they bought at a Wal-Mart discount store.'
Crow spent much of 1997 and '98 on the road, playing select dates on the Rolling Stones' Bridges to Babylon tour and performing with the 1998 Lilith Fair.
She released her third album, The Globe Sessions, in the fall of 1998. Crow continued her winning streak when The Globe Sessions was awarded a Grammy for Best Rock Album, thanks to the growing strength of her songwriting skills evident on “My Favorite Mistake” and “Anything But Down.”
After wowing audiences with Sheryl Crow and Friends: Live in Central Park, featuring guest musicians like Keith Richards, Dixie Chicks and Eric Clapton, Crow had some trouble finding inspiration for her fourth effort. Experiencing some writer’s block and general malaise, Crow found support in fellow female rock musicians Chrissie Hynde and Stevie Nicks and eventually found her voice again. The result was 2002’s C’mon, C’mon -- a throwback to good-time classic rock of the seventies and proof positive that Crow is in a class by herself. |
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