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Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and actress. Her music incorporates elements of rock, pop,
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, and blues. She has released eleven studio albums, five compilations and three live albums, as well as contributed to several film soundtracks. Her most popular songs include " All I Wanna Do" (1994), " Strong Enough" (1994), "
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" (1996), "
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" (1996), "
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" (1998), " Picture" (2002, duet with Kid Rock) and " Soak Up the Sun" (2002). Crow has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide and won nine Grammy Awards (out of 32 nominations) from the
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. As an actress, Crow has appeared on various television series including '' 30 Rock'', ''
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'', '' GCB'', ''
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'', Jon Stewart and
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'' and '' NCIS: New Orleans.


Childhood and education

Crow was born in
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, the daughter of Bernice (née Cain), a piano teacher, and Wendell Wyatt Crow, a lawyer and trumpet player. Her great-grandfather was congressman Charles A. Crow (1873–1938). She has two older sisters, Kathy and Karen, and a younger brother, Steven. While studying at Kennett High School, Crow was a
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and an all-state track athlete, medaling in the 75-meter low hurdles. She also joined the pep club, the National Honor Society, and the National FFA Organization, and was crowned Paperdoll Queen in a celebrity-judged beauty contest during her senior year. She then enrolled at the
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in Columbia and in 1984 received a BS Ed degree in music education. While at the university, she sang in the local band Cashmere. She was a member of the
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International Music Fraternity for Women, and the Omicron Delta Kappa Society, as well as working as a Summer Welcome orientation leader.


Career


1987–1991: Early years

After graduating from the University of Missouri, Crow worked as a music teacher at Kellison Elementary School in Fenton, Missouri. Teaching during the day gave her the opportunity to sing in bands on the weekends. She was later introduced to local musician and record producer
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. He had a studio in the basement of his parents' home in
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and helped her by using her in advertising
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s. Her first jingle was a back-to-school spot for the St. Louis department store Famous-Barr. Soon after, she sang in commercial jingles for
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and
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. She was quoted in a '' 60 Minutes'' segment as saying she made $40,000 on the McDonald's ad alone. Crow toured with
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as a backing vocalist during his Bad tour 1987–1989, and often performed with Jackson on "
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".
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Retrieved February 20, 2008.
She also recorded background vocals for Stevie Wonder,
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, Jimmy Buffett, Kevin Gilbert and Don Henley. In 1989, Crow contributed backing vocals to the
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track "Smoke of the Revolution" from his album ''
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''. Crow also sang in the short-lived Steven Bochco drama ''
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'' series finale in 1990 and her song "Heal Somebody" appeared in the film '' Bright Angel''. In 1991, her recording of "Welcome to the Real Life" featured on the soundtrack to the
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action film '' Stone Cold''. Later that year, her performance of "Hundreds of Tears" was included on the ''
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'' soundtrack and she sang a duet with
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on the track "I Would Do Anything", from his album ''
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''.


1992: Scrapped debut album

In 1992, Crow recorded her first attempt at a debut album with Sting's record producer
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. The self-titled debut album was due to be released in September 1992, but Crow and her label mutually decided that the album did not merit release. Crow described it as "too produced" and "slick". However, a handful of cassette copies of the album were leaked, along with press folders for album publicity. This album has been widely dispersed via
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networks and fan trading. In the meantime, Crow's songs were recorded by major artists such as
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,
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and
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.


1994–1997: International success

Crow began dating Kevin Gilbert and joined him in an ad hoc group of musicians known to themselves as the "Tuesday Music Club". The group existed as a casual songwriting collective prior to its association with Crow, but rapidly developed into a vehicle for her debut album after her arrival. Group members Gilbert,
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, and David Ricketts (both formerly of David & David),
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, Brian MacLeod, and Dan Schwartz share songwriting credits with Crow on her debut album, ''
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'', released in 1994. Her relationship with Gilbert became acrimonious soon after the album was released, and disputes arose about songwriting credits. ''Tuesday Night Music Club'' featured many of the songs written by Crow's friends, including the second single, " Leaving Las Vegas". The album was slow to garner attention, until " All I Wanna Do" became an unexpected smash hit in October 1994. The singles " Strong Enough" and "Can't Cry Anymore" were also released, with the first song ("Strong Enough") charting at No. 5 on ''Billboard'' and "Can't Cry Anymore" hitting the Top 40. ''Tuesday Night Music Club'' went on to sell more than 7 million copies in the US and UK during the 1990s. The album also won Crow three
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s in 1995: Record of the Year, Best New Artist and Best Female Vocal Performance. Crow performed at the 1994
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, and appeared in the "New Faces" section of ''
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'' in 1994. She also supplied background vocals to the song " The Garden of Allah" from Don Henley's 1995 album '' Actual Miles: Henley's Greatest Hits''. In 1996, Crow released her self-titled second album. She produced the album herself and also played a variety of instruments, from various guitars, bass or
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to various organs and piano. The debut single, "
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", became a radio success and netted her two Grammy awards for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance and Best Rock Album. Other singles included " A Change Would Do You Good", " Home", and "
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". The album was banned from sale at
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, because in the lyrics to "Love Is a Good Thing" Crow says that Wal-Mart sells guns to children. The album also features a
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called "Redemption Day", which was covered by Johnny Cash on his last album '' American VI: Ain't No Grave''. Crow performed at
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in 1997. Also in 1997, Crow contributed the theme song to the
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film ''
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''. Her song "
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" was nominated for a
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and Best Original Song Golden Globe.


1998–1999: ''The Globe Sessions'' and live album

Crow collaborated on
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's 1998 album, '' 12 Bar Blues''. Also in 1998, Crow released ''
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''. During this period, she discussed in interviews having gone through a deep depression, and there was speculation about a brief affair with Eric Clapton. The debut single from this album, "
My Favorite Mistake "My Favorite Mistake" is the first single from Sheryl Crow's third studio album, ''The Globe Sessions'' (1998), released on August 31, 1998, through A&M Records. Crow wrote the song about a relationship with a man who proves to be unfaithful and ...
", was rumored to be about Clapton, but Crow says otherwise—that the song is about a philandering ex-boyfriend. Crow has refused to say who the song was about, telling '' Billboard'' magazine on the release of her album, "Oh, there will be just so much speculation, and because of that there's great safety and protection in the fact that people will be guessing so many different people and I'm the only person who will ever really know. I'm really private about who I've had relationships with, and I don't talk about them in the press. I don't even really talk about them with the people around me." Despite the difficulties in recording the album, Crow told the BBC in 2005 that, "My favorite single is 'My Favorite Mistake'. It was a lot of fun to record and it's still a lot of fun to play." The album won Best Rock Album at the 1999 Grammy Awards. It was re-released in 1999, with a bonus track, Crow's cover of the Guns N' Roses song "
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", which was included on the soundtrack of the film '' Big Daddy''. The song won the 1999 Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. Other singles included " There Goes the Neighborhood", "
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", and "The Difficult Kind". Crow won the 2001 Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for "There Goes the Neighborhood". ''The Globe Sessions'' peaked at No. 5 on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart, achieving US sales of 2 million as of January 2008. Later in 1998, Crow took part in a live concert in tribute to Burt Bacharach, contributing vocals on " One Less Bell to Answer". In 1999, Crow also made her acting debut as an ill-fated drifter in the suspense/drama '' The Minus Man'', which starred her then-boyfriend
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as a
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. Also in 1999, she appeared in
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's album '' Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic'', singing backing vocals in the song "Baby Knows". Prince included a cover of her "
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" in the album. She also appeared in
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's collection ''Overdose d'amore/The Ballads'' featuring the song "Blue" (co-written by Bono). She also released a live album called '' Sheryl Crow and Friends: Live From Central Park''. The record featured Crow singing many of her hit singles with new musical spins and guest appearances by many other musicians including
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, Stevie Nicks, the
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, Keith Richards, and Eric Clapton. It included "There Goes the Neighborhood", which won the Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.


2002–2004: ''C'mon, C'mon'' and ''The Very Best of Sheryl Crow''

Crow has been involved with the Scleroderma Research Foundation (SRF) since the late 1990s, performing at fund-raisers and befriending Sharon Monsky. In 2002, as a result of her friend Kent Sexton dying from
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, she interrupted work on her new album '' C'mon, C'mon'' to record the traditional hymn "Be Still, My Soul", to be played at his funeral. In November of that year it was released as a single, with the proceeds going to SRF. Her fourth studio album, '' C'mon, C'mon'', was released in 2002, spawning the hit single " Soak Up the Sun". The second single, "Steve McQueen", won the Female Rock Vocal Performance Grammy. Crow opposed the
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, wearing a shirt that read "I don't believe in your war, Mr. Bush!" during a performance on '' Good Morning America'' and posting an open letter explaining her opposition on her website. At a performance with Kid Rock at the
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, she wore a large peace sign and a guitar strap with the words "No War". She showed support for injured soldiers in 2003 by playing her guitar and singing to individual patients at
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. She recorded the song "Kiss That Girl" for the film '' Bridget Jones's Diary''. She also recorded a cover version of the Beatles' song "Mother Nature's Son" for the film ''
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''. Crow sang a duet with rock artist Kid Rock on the crossover hit single " Picture", from Kid Rock's 2001 album '' Cocky''. She also assisted him on the track "Run Off to L.A.". Crow collaborated with
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on the song "Love Me Like That" for Branch's second album, '' Hotel Paper'', released in 2003. She was featured on the Johnny Cash album '' American III: Solitary Man'' on the song "Field of Diamonds" as a background vocalist, and also played the accordion for the songs "Wayfaring Stranger" and "Mary of the Wild Moor". In 2003, a greatest hits compilation called ''
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'' was released. It featured many of her hit singles, as well as some new tracks. Among them was the 1960s pop song, "
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" by Cat Stevens, which became her biggest radio hit since "All I Wanna Do". She also released the single " Light in Your Eyes", which received limited airplay. "The First Cut Is the Deepest" earned her two
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s for Best Pop/Rock Artist and Adult Contemporary Artist of the Year, respectively. In 2004, Crow appeared as a
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performer in the Cole Porter biographical film '' De-Lovely''.


2005–2007: ''Wildflower''

Her fifth studio album, ''
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'', was released in September 2005. Although the album debuted at No. 2 on the ''Billboard'' charts, it received mixed reviews and was not as commercially successful as her previous albums. In December 2005, the album was nominated for a Best Pop Vocal Album Grammy, while Crow was nominated for a Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Grammy for the first single "
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". However, she ultimately lost in both categories to
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. The album got a new boost in 2006 when the second single was announced as "
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", re-recorded with British musician Sting and sent off to radio, where it was quickly embraced on
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. The collaboration with Sting resulted in a Grammy-nomination for Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals. As of January 2008, ''Wildflower'' has sold 949,000 units in the United States. In 2006, Crow contributed " Real Gone", the opening track to the
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for
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and
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's 2006 animated film ''
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''. Crow was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer in mid-February 2006, her doctors stating that, "Prognosis for a full recovery is excellent." Crow's first concert after her cancer diagnosis was on May 18 of that year in Orlando, Florida, where she played to over 10,000 information technology professionals at the SAP Sapphire Convention. Her first public appearance was on June 12, when she performed at the Murat Theater in Indianapolis, Indiana. She also appeared on ''
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'' on
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on August 23, 2006. In this show, she talked about her comeback, her breakup with
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, her past job as Michael Jackson's backup singer, and her experience as a breast cancer survivor. In late 2006, Crow was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the song ''Try Not To Remember'' (Best Original Song category) from the film '' Home of the Brave''. In early 2007, Crow was scheduled to sing at an annual benefit concert for The Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital that sportscaster
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hosts every year. Her performance was opposed by Catholic Archbishop Raymond Burke due to her position on abortion. Burke resigned as chair of the medical center's board of governors when Crow's appearance was confirmed. Crow wrote a foreword for the book ''Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips'', a book written by Kris Carr that was based on her 2007 documentary film '' Crazy Sexy Cancer''. Crow contributed her cover of the Beatles' "
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" on the soundtrack for the DreamWorks animated film ''
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'' in November 2007. She contributed background vocals to
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's song "Two" from his album '' Easy Tiger''.


2008–2009: ''Detours''

Crow returned with her sixth studio album '' Detours'', which was released on February 5, 2008. ''Detours'' debuted at No. 2 on the US ''Billboard'' 200 chart selling close to 92,000 copies in its first week and an additional 52,000 copies in its second week. In support of the new album, Crow launched a 25-date tour with
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, and the lineup included
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group
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after being handpicked by Crow who said they are one of her favorite bands. ''Detours'' was recorded at Crow's Nashville farm. Her son, Wyatt, makes an appearance on the song "Lullaby for Wyatt", which is featured in the movie '' Grace Is Gone''. " Shine Over Babylon" was the first promotional single from the album (download only). The first official single released from the album was "
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", followed by "Out of Our Heads". As of 2010, ''Detours'' had sold more than 700,000 copies worldwide. Crow endorsed
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in the
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and later performed on the fourth and last day of the
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. Crow also recorded a studio version of " So Glad We Made It" for the ''Team USA Olympic Soundtrack'', in conjunction with the
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US Olympic team sponsors,
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. Crow also stated that she would donate $1 of each ticket purchased for her 2008 tour to the United Nations
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. A&M Records re-released Crow's debut album, ''Tuesday Night Music Club'', as a deluxe version 2CD/DVD set on November 17, 2009. The released included the single "Killer Life", which charted moderately in
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radio. The bonus CD contains unreleased songs and B-sides, and a new mix of "I Shall Believe". The DVD features music videos for each of the album's singles. In August 2008, Crow (in partnership with Western Glove Works) launched a jeans brand, Bootheel Trading Company. On April 4, 2009, Crow, who practices
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, took part in a benefit concert at the Radio City Music Hall in New York organized by the
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supporting the Foundation's goal of teaching one million at-risk students to meditate. She and
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performed George Harrison's "
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". Other performers at the concert included
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, Ringo Starr,
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, Moby, Eddie Vedder and Donovan.


2010–2012: ''100 Miles from Memphis''

In 2010, Crow contributed the original spoken-word track "My Name Is Mwamaroyi" to the
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and
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' ''Raise Hope for Congo'' compilation. Proceeds from the compilation fund efforts to make the protection and empowerment of Congo's women a priority, as well as inspire individuals around the world to raise their voice for peace in Congo. A&M Records released Crow's seventh studio album, ''
100 Miles from Memphis ''100 Miles from Memphis'' is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow. It is her final release for A&M Records. The album was written and produced by Crow, Doyle Bramhall II and Justin Stanley and features the musicians T ...
'', on July 20, 2010. The album has a classic Memphis soul vibe and features the lead single " Summer Day". Later that year, she joined
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and country singer
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on an update of Lynn's song " Coal Miner's Daughter" for the 2010 album '' Coal Miner's Daughter: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn''. They later performed the song on the 44th Annual Country Music Awards in November. In July 2011, Crow performed at the opening night of the
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Rodeo. Animal welfare campaigners had urged her not to, alleging animal cruelty at the event. Almost 13,000 people signed a petition calling on Crow not to perform. On September 20, 2011, it was announced that Crow will write the music and lyrics for ''Diner'', a new musical inspired by the critically acclaimed 1982 film. The show will come to Broadway in the fall of 2012, and will be directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall. On October 11, 2011,
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released the album ''
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'', on which Crow sang the track " Mrs. Major Tom" by
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artist
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, released in 2003 on the album '' Adieu Shinjuku Zulu''. On September 21, 2012, Mailboat Records released '' Mark Twain: Words & Music'', an
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double-CD that tells the life of fellow Missourian Mark Twain in spoken word and song. The project was a benefit for the
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in Hannibal, Missouri. Crow sang the only period piece song on the project,
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's " Beautiful Dreamer". The song was sung a cappella and accompanied the narrative describing the early days of Mark Twain's young family in Hartford, Connecticut. Other performers that joined the project, produced by
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, included Jimmy Buffett, Clint Eastwood, Garrison Keillor, Brad Paisley, Emmylou Harris,
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,
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, and others. AirPlay Direct reported the project as its most downloaded Americana album. In September 2012, Crow was featured in a campaign called ''30 Songs/30 Days'' to support '' Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide'', a multi-platform media project inspired by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's book. Crow was invited by journalist
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to write the theme song for her new talk-show, ''
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''. The song, titled "This Day", was nominated for a
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in the category Outstanding Original Song. On November 1, 2012, Crow released an original song she called "Woman in the White House" that was made available for a free download. As the title suggests, the country-flavored tune defends the idea of a woman president. Mixed reviews from critics ranged from "sort of patronizing and gender essentialist" to "good-natured and well-intentioned". The song, praised for its tongue-in-cheek lyrics, was commented on by country singer
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, who characterized it as "all in good fun". The song was later released for digital download on iTunes and a portion of the proceeds were donated to the American Red Cross to aid in the recovery effort in the wake of
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. Also in 2012, VH1 ranked Crow at No. 25 as one of the ''100 Greatest Women in Music''.


2013–2015: ''Feels Like Home''

In 2011, Crow separated from her label, A&M Records. The singer followed Nashville neighbor
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's advice and, after being introduced to producer Justin Niebank and several Nashville-based songwriters such as Chris DuBois,
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and Chris Stapleton, in 2013 she started her first
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project. In 2013, Crow signed a recording contract with Warner Music Nashville and, a few months later, released " Easy", the first single from the upcoming album, which became her first top twenty country radio hit and her highest charting lead single since 2005. '' Feels Like Home'' was released on September 10, 2013, and debuted at number seven on the ''Billboard'' 200 with first-week sales of over 36,000 copies, becoming Crow's ninth top ten album. Crow was one of the opening acts for George Strait's 2014 leg of '' The Cowboy Rides Away Tour''. Along with Stevie Nicks, Bonnie Raitt, Emmylou Harris and Carrie Underwood, she made an appearance at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, paying tribute to
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, who was one of the inductees of 2014. Crow, along with country band
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, joined
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on their '' Rewind Tour'', which kicked off May 16, 2014. The 40th anniversary celebration benefit concert of the Austin City Limits television show was held on June 26, 2014 and televised later that year. Crow hosted the event along with
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and performed with
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,
Gary Clark Jr. Gary Lee Clark Jr. (born February 15, 1984) is an American musician from Austin, Texas. He is known for his fusion of blues, rock and soul music with elements of hip hop. In 2011, Clark signed with Warner Bros Records and released ''The Brig ...
,
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, as well as her former guitarist
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. Crow sang on a rendition of "
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" that appeared on
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's Christmas album, ''Home for the Holidays''. In December 2015, she covered " A Hard Day's Night" at the John Lennon 75th Birthday Concert, and performed " Two More Bottles of Wine" with
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at another tribute concert: The Life & Songs of Emmylou Harris.


2017–present: ''Be Myself'', ''Threads'' and ''Sheryl''

Crow duets with Americana artist
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on the track "I'm Tied To Ya" from his album ''Close Ties'' which was released in March 2017. Crow's tenth studio album, '' Be Myself'', was released on April 21, 2017. It was co-produced by Crow, Jeff Trott and
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, and is the first time the latter has appeared on one of Crow's studio albums since ''The Globe Sessions'' in 1998. It has been described by Crow as a return to the sound of her nineties work, and intentionally eschews the country-influenced sound of her previous album. She has said that she did not enjoy the political promotion system utilized by country radio, saying: "You do lots of free howsfor radio stations in trade for getting played between three and four in the morning. And that's just not how other formats work, and that goes against my grain. I'm too old to allow that for myself, and to spend any night away from my kid for that is not justified." Crow's 2019 album '' Threads'' features contributions from, among others, Don Henley,
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, Sting, Stevie Nicks,
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, and
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. While promoting her UK tour, Crow released "Wouldn't Wanna Be Like You" featuring St. Vincent and revealed that she intends for ''Threads'' to be her final album, citing the impossibility of releasing something that could follow-up such a gathering of artists. She added that she will continue to write and tour and will potentially release short-form music akin to
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s. Crow was among hundreds of artists whose material was destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire. Crow confirmed to
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that the master and safety back-ups for her first seven albums were lost in the fire, and said she was not informed of their destruction until she read the ''Times'' report. In 2022, ''Sheryl'', a Showtime documentary film directed by Amy Scott chronicling her career, premiered at the South by Southwest film festival.


Instruments and signature model guitars

Early in her career, Crow performed extensively with a 1962 Gibson Country Western guitar which was her personal favorite, but she eventually feared that it would not stand up to the rigors of continued touring and stage use, and in 1999 asked Gibson to build her a replica for use on stage. The manufacturer responded by introducing a "Sheryl Crow" model in their Signature Artist Series, which is essentially a re-creation of the square-shouldered 1962-era Country Western model. In 2013, Gibson also introduced a limited edition "Sheryl Crow Southern Jumbo", a reissue of the slope-shouldered predecessor of the 1962-era Country Western.


Personal life


Relationships and family

Crow has had several high-profile romantic relationships. In the late 1990s, she dated musician Eric Clapton and actor
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. The song "Safe and Sound" on the album '' C'mon, C'mon'' was dedicated to Wilson and, according to the album's liner notes, was an account of their relationship. Crow began dating cyclist
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in 2003. The couple announced their engagement in September 2005, but jointly announced they had split on February 3, 2006. In May 2007, Crow announced on her website that she had adopted a boy who was born the month before. In June 2010, Crow announced that she had adopted another boy born the previous April. She and her sons live in West Nashville, Tennessee. She also owns a home in Destin,
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. She owned a
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in the
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neighborhood of Lower Manhattan from 1998 to 2017. Crow and her son Levi consider themselves diehard
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fans, and went to several of their post-season games in 2021 en route to Milwaukee's
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victory. Giannis Antetokounmpo and
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are her favorite players. She came from a musical background, as both of her parents were musicians. Her mother, Bernice Crow, is a piano teacher, and her father, Wendell Crow, is a trumpet player. She has two older sisters, Kathy and Karen, and a younger brother named Steven.


Health

After being diagnosed with
ductal carcinoma in situ Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), also known as intraductal carcinoma, is a pre-cancerous or non-invasive cancerous lesion of the breast. DCIS is classified as Stage 0. It rarely produces symptoms or a breast lump one can feel, typically being d ...
(DCIS), a non-invasive form of
breast cancer Breast cancer is cancer that develops from breast tissue. Signs of breast cancer may include a lump in the breast, a change in breast shape, dimpling of the skin, milk rejection, fluid coming from the nipple, a newly inverted nipple, or a r ...
, Crow underwent a
lumpectomy Lumpectomy (sometimes known as a tylectomy, partial mastectomy, breast segmental resection or breast wide local excision) is a surgical removal of a discrete portion or "lump" of breast tissue, usually in the treatment of a malignant tumor or brea ...
at a Los Angeles facility on February 22, 2006, followed by seven weeks of
radiation therapy Radiation therapy or radiotherapy, often abbreviated RT, RTx, or XRT, is a therapy using ionizing radiation, generally provided as part of cancer treatment to control or kill malignant cells and normally delivered by a linear accelerator. Radi ...
. In August 2010, Crow partnered with her surgeon, Kristi Funk, to open the Sheryl Crow Imaging Center at Funk's Pink Lotus Breast Center. Crow had also suffered from depression. In November 2011, Crow was diagnosed with a meningioma, the most common kind of brain tumour, usually
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, for which she continued to have regular follow-up exams.


Views

Crow was raised
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, but she moved towards a more general affiliation and now describes herself as Christian. She is known for her liberal political standpoints, opposing the invasion of Iraq in 2003, supporting gun control measures, opposing military intervention in Syria, and supporting efforts to reduce
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.


Awards

Crow has been awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Missouri (her alma mater) and Southeast Missouri State University in
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. In 2006, Crow was a recipient of the American Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award presented by Awards Council member Steven Spielberg at a ceremony in Los Angeles.


Discography

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Tuesday Night Music Club ''Tuesday Night Music Club'' is the debut album from American singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow, released on August 3, 1993. The first two singles from the album were not particularly successful. However, the album gained attention after the success ...
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The Globe Sessions ''The Globe Sessions'' is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow, released on September 21, 1998, in the United Kingdom and September 29, 1998, in the United States, then re-released in 1999. It was nominated for Grammy ...
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Wildflower A wildflower (or wild flower) is a flower that grows in the wild, meaning it was not intentionally seeded or planted. The term implies that the plant probably is neither a hybrid nor a selected cultivar that is in any way different from the ...
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100 Miles from Memphis ''100 Miles from Memphis'' is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow. It is her final release for A&M Records. The album was written and produced by Crow, Doyle Bramhall II and Justin Stanley and features the musicians T ...
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Filmography


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See also

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List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart This is a list of recording artists who have reached number one on ''Billboard magazine's'' Dance Club Songs chart. ''Billboard'' began ranking dance music on the week ending October 26, 1974, and this is the standard music popularity chart in th ...
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List of awards and nominations received by Sheryl Crow Sheryl Crow is an American singer-songwriter. She has released nine studio albums: '' Tuesday Night Music Club'' (1993), ''Sheryl Crow'' (1996), '' The Globe Sessions'' (1998), '' C'mon, C'mon'' (2002), ''Wildflower'' (2005), '' Detours'' (2008) ...


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