| Sheryl Crow - born February 11, 1962, Kennett, Missouri - is an American pop-rock singer. The parents of Crow were also into music. Sheryl started playing on the piano when she was just 6 yrs old. After schooling, Crow studied in the Music College at the University of Columbia and after graduating from college, she worked for some time as a music teacher in Saint Louis. In the 1980s, she performed as a back-vocalist for popular performers Michael Jackson, George Harrison, Steve Wonder, Joe Cocker and Rod Stewart. Apart from this, she composed several songs for celebrities. As a solo performer, Sheryl appeared in 1993 with the album “Tuesday Night Music Club”. The composition “All I Wanna Do” from this album became an instant hit and tasted huge success: The song was played on radio. Thanks to the song the album became multi platinum.
She signed a contract with the label A&M records. Till today, the lone dark phase of her career was in 1995, when Sheryl Crow fought with alcohol dependence and she kicked-off the dependence successfully.
Her second album (1996) contains hits such as "If It Makes You Happy", "Everyday is a Winding Road" and "A Change (Will Do You Good)". Its sound was harder. The album did not sell as well as the first one due to a conflict with the corporation “Wal–Mart” -a chain of supermarkets, monopolists in the smaller cities of America. The album reached sales of 4 million dollars thanks to local radio stations. In 1997 and 1998, Sheryl Crow performed on tours and participated in one of the recordings on an album by Eric Clapton. Her disc The Globe Sessions, released in the end of 1998, got a “Grammy” award in the nomination for “Best rock album”.
Thereafter, she received ten more Grammy awards, the albums were all multi-platinum and she sold 23 million discs and had world-wide success.
Discography:
TUESDAY NIGHT MUSIC CLUB (A&M Records, 1993)
SHERYL CROW (A&M Records, 1996)
THE GLOBE SESSIONS (A&M Records, 1998)
SHERYL CROW AND FRIENDS: LIVE IN CENTRAL PARK (A&M Records, 1999)
C'MON C'MON (Interscope, 2002)
SHERYL CROW: LIVE AT BUDOKAN (A&M Records, 2003) |
American singer and songwriter Sheryl Crow celebrates her 45th birthday today. Crow started her music career as a backup singer for Michael Jackson; she toured with him during the BAD world tour in 1987-1989.
Since Crow went solo, her songs won her fame and numerous awards including ten Grammies.
