  Sheryl Suzanne Crow was born
February 11, 1963 in Missouri, near Memphis,
Tennessee. Blending elements of rock, blues,
and folk music, Sheryl seemed to burst on the
pop charts in 1994, when in actuality she had
spent many years "behind the
scenes" until her big break. With her
throaty vocals and sexy southern charm,
Sheryl has won over many fans with her words
and voice. Sheryl learned to play the piano
by age 6 and wrote her first song at age 13.
After attending the University of Missouri
where she majored in music composition,
performance and teaching, Sheryl worked as a
grade school music teacher for kids with
special needs and a part-time bar singer. On
her teaching work, Sheryl stated:
"It’s amazing to see music work on
little human beings who are otherwise
unreachable. They feel the vibration of a
guitar and they come alive."
 At the age of 23, Sheryl moved
to Los Angeles and began a career as a backup
singer for such talents as Don
Henley, Eric Clapton, George
Harrison, and Rod Stewart, and was even a backup
singer for Michael
Jackson's "Bad" tour for 18
months. The years for Sheryl were successful
but also depressing for her. While continuing
her work as a backup singer, Sheryl continued
to write songs, some of which were recorded
by other artists such as Celine
Dion, Eric Clapton, Lisa Lisa
& Cult Jam, and
Wynonna, and did some
session work for Stevie Wonder and Sinéad
O'Connor.
After a 2 year depression,
Sheryl was signed with A&M Records, but
her first attempt at recording was not
released. She then began to take more control
over her music and the musicians she wanted
to work with, including producer, Bill
Botrell. The result was her first successful
LP.
 Sheryl released her debut LP, Tuesday
Night Music Club. The LP displayed
Sheryl's gift of catchy lyrics and
non-aggressive rock sound.
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Singles Artist of the Year
Tuesday
Night Music Club took awhile
to before it became a major hit in '94. The
first single, "Leaving Las Vegas" began to get her
noticed, but it was the #1 hit "All
I Wanna Do" that made the LP fly off
the shelves and allow Sheryl to become
"an overnight sensation." Sheryl
also hit the Top 10 with "Strong Enough" and "Can't Cry Anymore."
 Sheryl hit the Top 40 with
"Leaving Las Vegas."
Sheryl hit the Top 40 with
"All
I Wanna Do."
Sheryl performed at Woodstock
'94.
 Sheryl hit the Top 10 with "All
I Wanna Do."
Tuesday
Night Music Club was certified
platinum.
The video for "Leaving Las Vegas" was nominated
for a MTV Video Music
Award for Best Female Video.
Sheryl hit #1 for 4 weeks with
"All
I Wanna Do."
Sheryl topped the Billboard
Adult Contemporary Singles chart for 8 weeks
with "All
I Wanna Do."
 Tuesday
Night Music Club was certified 2x
platinum.
The single "All
I Wanna Do" was certified gold.
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Singles Artist of the Year
Sheryl hit the Top 40 with
"Strong Enough."
Sheryl appeared on the Boys
On The Side soundtrack with "Keep On
Grooving."
 Sheryl hit the Top 10 with "Strong Enough."
Sheryl won 3 Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Best
Female Pop Vocal Performance ("All
I Wanna Do") and Best
New Artist, and was nominated for Song of the Year (songwriter) ("All
I Wanna Do") and Best Rock Vocal
Performance - Female ("I'm Gonna Be A Wheel
Someday").
Tuesday
Night Music Club was certified 4x
platinum.
Sheryl hit the Top 40 with a
song from the Encomium:
A Tribute to Led Zeppelin compilation,
"D'yer Maker."
Tuesday
Night Music Club was certified 5x
platinum.
Sheryl hit the Top 40 with
"Can't Cry Anymore."
 Sheryl hit the Top 10 with "Can't Cry Anymore."
Sheryl topped the Billboard
Year-End Chart-Toppers as the Top Pop Artist
- Female (singles & albums).
Along the way to success, Sheryl
encountered some hardship as well. Sheryl
told Rolling
Stone: "It's unfortunate in some
ways that the record did so well, because I
lost friends over it." One of the
"Tuesday Night Music Club's"
members, David Baerwald was a friend of John
O'Brien, author of Leaving Las Vegas.
Sheryl's song of the same name was thought to
be more of a product of Baerwald and
O'Brien's words than Sheryl's life. Soon
after Sheryl sang the song on Late Show
With David Letterman and acknowledged to
the host that the song was autobiographical,
O'Brien committed suicide and a friendship
was lost between Sheryl and Baerwald.
O'Brien's parents denied their son's suicide
was related to Sheryl's actions. When it came
time to work on her next LP, Sheryl had a
falling out with Bill Botrell, who had worked
on her debut LP and was committed to working
on Sheryl's follow-up. Sheryl then decided to
do her own producing.
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Singles Artist of the Year
Tuesday
Night Music Club was certified 6x
platinum.
 Sheryl's follow-up LP, Sheryl
Crow, was released and although it
did not sell as many millions as her debut
LP, Sheryl proved she was able to conquer the
sophomore slump. The LP gave Sheryl more Top
10 hits and more success with her videos and
on radio with the hits "If It Makes You Happy," "Everyday Is A Winding
Road,"
"A Change Would Do You
Good,"
and "Home."
Ironically, even though Sheryl's
sound is considered refreshing at a time of
gangsta rap and sexual overtones, Sheryl's
latest LP was banned by the Wal-Mart stores
due to a reference ("Watch our children
as they kill each other with a gun they
bought at the Wal-Mart discount stores")
on the track, "Love Is A Good
Thing" about buying a gun at the chain
store.
Sheryl Hit The Top 40 with
"If It Makes You Happy."
 Sheryl Hit The Top 10 with "If It Makes You Happy."
Sheryl
Crow topped the UK LP chart for a
week.
Sheryl appeared on the cover of Rolling
Stone.
Sheryl
Crow was certified platinum.
 Sheryl's music can also be heard
on the following compilations: Women
For Women 2, If
I Were A Carpenter, and the Kalifornia soundtrack.
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Singles Artist of the Year
Sheryl hit the Top 40 with
"Everyday Is A Winding
Road."
 Sheryl won 2 more Grammy
Awards for Best Rock Vocal
Performance - Female ("If It Makes You Happy") and Best Rock Album (Sheryl
Crow).
Tuesday
Night Music Club was certified 7x
platinum.
Sheryl hit the Top 10 with "Everyday Is A Winding
Road."
Sheryl hit the Top 40 with
"A Change Would Do You
Good."
 Sheryl toured with the
successful Lilith Fair as well as touring
solo in support of her LP (sponsored by Tommy
Hilfiger).
Sheryl
Crow was certified 2x platinum.
Sheryl hit the Top 10 with "A Change Would Do You
Good."
Sheryl
Crow was certified 3x platinum.
 Sheryl also opened for the Rolling
Stones at 5 of their shows.
Sheryl hit the Top 40 with
"Home."
Sheryl Crow the
next Bond Girl? Not exactly, but she was
asked to write and perform the title song for
the next James Bond flick, Tomorrow
Never Dies.
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Singles Artist of the Year
 Sheryl hit the Top 40 and was
nominated for a Golden Globe Award with
"Tomorrow
Never Dies".
Sheryl was nominated for a Grammy Award for Record of the Year ("Everyday Is A Winding
Road").
Sheryl removed herself from
appearing in this summer's Lilith Fair
because of exhaustion, and Liz Phair
signed up to replace 4 of Sheryl's 12
appearances. Sheryl stated: "I have been
working non-stop for 2 years. I need some
time at home to regroup."
 Sheryl's next LP, The
Globe Sessions, was released with the first
single "My
Favorite Mistake." Sheryl said of the LP,
"...the lyrics are written more in the
first person. Much of my writing on the first
2 records was narrative. This record isn't
really that. It doesn't draw upon an alter
ego or a character to tell a story. It's
mostly my own feelings about what's happened
over the past few years, the changes in my
life and the changes in me personally."
Sheryl hit the Top 40 with
"My
Favorite Mistake."
 Sheryl talked with Reuters about
her new LP, The
Globe Sessions, getting older, and her
feelings about touring: "I've been on
the road for so long, and I had really
enjoyed all that but found when I got home
I'd let a lot of things and relationships
go... there was definitely a lack of balance
and I'm trying to find balance right now...
the songs (on The
Globe Sessions) come from a place of real
self-examination and reassessment... they're
certainly more personal than any I've done
before, kind of like standing on a stage
naked... this record reflects the fact that
I'm getting older and as you get older you
redefine yourself and your priorities
change..."
Sheryl hit the Top
10
with "My
Favorite Mistake."
The
Globe Sessions was certified platinum.
 Sheryl could be found on the Faculty soundtrack with
"Resuscitation."
Sheryl won a BMI Award for Pop
Songwriter of the Year (shared with
co-writer, Jeffrey Trott).
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Singles Artist of the Year
 Sheryl won another Grammy Award for Best Rock Album (The
Globe Sessions) and was nominated for Album of
the Year (The
Globe Sessions), Best Pop Vocal Performance -
Female
("My
Favorite Mistake"), Best Rock Vocal
Performance - Female ("There Goes The
Neighborhood"), Best Song Written
Specifically for a Motion Picture ("Tomorrow
Never Dies"), and Producer of the
Year.
Sheryl also won a Brit Award for
Best International Female Solo Artist and was
nominated for an Orville H. Gibson Guitar
Award for Best Rock Guitarist (Female).
Sheryl hit the Top 40 with
"Anything
But Down."
Sheryl hit the Top
10
with "Anything
But Down."
 Sheryl ranked # 44 on VH1: 100
Greatest Women of Rock & Roll.
Sheryl performed at Woodstock
'99 in Rome, New York.
Sheryl also performed at some of
the Lilith Fair dates.
Sheryl was joined on-stage at
the Lilith Fair by Prince for her song "Everyday Is A Winding
Road."
 Sheryl hit the Top 40 with her
cover of Guns
N' Roses' "Sweet
Child O' Mine" from the Big
Daddy soundtrack (released in June).
Sheryl was live in Central Park
for a performance aired on FOX along with Sarah
McLachlan and Eric Clapton.
Sheryl could be heard on the Indigo Girls' LP Come
On Now Social on the tracks "Gone
Again" and "Cold Beer And Remote
Control."
Sheryl took part in Net.Aid.
 Sheryl released the live LP, Sheryl
Crow And Friends Live From Central Park.
Sheryl won a Grammy Award for Best
Female Rock Vocal Performance ("Sweet
Child O' Mine").
Sheryl won a Gibson Guitar Award
for Best Acoustic Guitarist (Female).
Sheryl won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal
Performance - Female ("There Goes The
Neighborhood") (her 3rd in that
category) and was also nominated for Best Pop Collaboration with
Vocals
("The Difficult Kind" with Sarah
McLachlan) and Best Country Collaboration
with Vocals ("Strong Enough" with the Dixie
Chicks). Sheryl also performed a duet
with Shelby Lynne at the ceremony.
Sheryl could be heard on the
soundtrack for Bridget
Jones' Diary with "Kiss That
Girl."
 Sheryl performed "Safe And
Sound" for a landmark fundraiser (America:
A Tribute To Heroes) aired by all the
major networks to raise money for families of
the victims of recent terrorist attacks. The
song will appear on Sheryl's next LP and in
the film K-Pax.
Sheryl performed at a breast
cancer fundraiser - 'Women Rock! Girls &
Guitars.'
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Singles Artist of the Year
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