Sheryl Crow (born February 11, 1962 in Kennett, Missouri, USA) is an American blues rock singer, guitarist and song writer.

Introduction
The graduate of the University of Missouri and former teacher, Crow began her musical career in the 1980s when she moved to Los Angeles and found operate as a backup vocalist for many major label acts. She was recruited to perform as a backup singer for Michael Jackson on his Bad tour.

Crow signed the record treat by using A&M Records in 1990 and was ready to release her debut album in 1991. Notwithstanding, she did non such as a slick & easily-produced pop sound of a record and implored the label to allow her to run afresh; it agreed. She team sustaining producer Bill Bottrell and more musicians to form what it known as "The Tuesday Night Music Club." It would develop together & improvise songs until it experienced finished works.

Bottrell & Crow began the romance & the broker relationship, at length creating her debut album, known as Tuesday Night Music Club. A album featured numerous of a songs written by Crow & her friends, including the foremost lone, "Leaving Las Vegas". A album was slow to garner attention until a a single song Crow did non write, "All I Wanna Do", became an unexpected smash radio hit. A singles "Run, Baby, Run" & "Strong Enough" were likewise freed. Crow received many Grammy awards in 1994: Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "All I Wanna Do"; Record of the Season for "All I Wanna Do"; & Right Up to date Artist.

Within 1996 Crow released her 2nd album, which was self coroneted. Featuring a darker & grittier look & healthy, the album was as well far other political, by owning songs just about abortion, homelessness and nuclear war. A debut lone "If It Makes You Happy" became the radio hit, & netted her ii Grammy awards for Right Female Pop Vocal Performance & Right Up to date Album. More singles involved "A Change Would Do You Good", "Home" & "Everyday is a Winding Road".

Inside 1997 Crow contributed the theme song to the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies. the song of the equivalent title was nominated for even the Grammy Award for Better Song Written Specifically For a Motion Picture or Television.(It misplaced)

Inside 1998 Crow released the third album, known as A Earth Sessions. She discussed inside click interviews getting never again across the deep depression, and experienced the extremely publicised relationship by using music legend Eric Clapton. A debut only from either this album, "My Favorite Mistake", was rumored to be all about him, though Crow claims otherwise. A album won Right Rock Album at a 1998 Grammy Awards; interestingly, it was re-freed inside 1999 with a bonus track, Crow's handle of the Guns N' Roses song "Sweet Child O' Mine", which was included on the soundtrack of the Adam Sandler film Big Daddy. This song won a 1999 Grammy for Right Female Rock Vocal Performance. More singles involved "There Goes the Neighborhood", "Anything But Down" & "The Difficult Kind". "There Goes the Neighborhood" won the Grammy for Right Female Rock Vocal Performance inside 2000 whilst it was involved within her album, "Sheryl Crow and Friends: Live from Central Park."

Around 1999 Crow also mass produced her acting debut (barring the cameo in the film "54") as ill-ill-starred floater Laurie Bloom in the suspense/drama The Minus Man, which starred her then-boyfriend Owen Wilson as a serial killer. She too freed the survive album known as Sheryl Crow & Friends: Survive From either Central Park. A record witnessed Crow singing numbers of of her hit singles by using newly musical theater spins & guest appearances by numbers of more musicians including Stevie Nicks, the Dixie Chicks, and Clapton.

Inside 2002, after the break & occasionally traveling, Crow discharged ''C'mon, C'mon. Musically unlike any of her other records, the task got a more pop sense. Cd & promotional exposure besides incurred Crow supplementary half-clothed than ever prior to, around bikinis and hot pants. Crow stated she was making the statement that women assibilate Xl were however sexy. Whether the statement or even the marketing thing, 100'mon, 100'mon'' spawned hits within "Soak Up the Sun" & 2002 Right Female Rock Performance Grammy winner "Steve McQueen". Crow as well performed a song "Safe & Sound" from this album at a television benefit for the victims of September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. She repeated this before a release of her "Wildflower" Video around 2005, performing at advantages for outdoor enthusiasts of Hurricane Katrina, singing "Water Is Wide" at a telethon "Shelter from the Storm" & a so newly individual "Good Is Good" in "React Now:Music and Relief". 2002 too incurred Crow collaborating using Stevie Nicks on her project, & releasing the successful individual known as "Picture" using rumored beau Kid Rock.

Crow opposed a 2003 invasion of Iraq, wearing a shirt that understand "I don't believe in your war, Mr. Bush!" when you took the performance in Good Morning America and posting an open letter explaining her opposition on her web site. [http://www.artistsnetwork.org/news7/news319.html] Her public stance attracted therefore numbers of supporters of the war to her site that the message board was closed for a total of times. A official cause for the closure was "technical difficulties".

Around 2003, Crow released the greatest hits compilation known as The Very Best of Sheryl Crow. It featured several of her hit singles, when well as a few newly tracks. Among a babies was the ballad "The First Cut is the Deepest" (the song originally composed & performed by Cat Stevens), which became her biggest radio hit since her foremost, "All I Wanna Do".

2004 saw Crow appear as a musical theater performer in the Cole Porter biopic De-Lovely. Her performance in a film of the Porter classic "Begin the Beguine" was critically panned by film reviewers.

She is nowadays dating cycling great Lance Armstrong. A few develop announced it is engaged to become married, quondam around Spring 2006.

Crow was the independent stage work at Lilith Fair & has contributed many songs to motion picture soundtracks and favorite projects that were never manufactured available elsewhere, among the children: "D'yer Maker" (Encomium: Led Zeppelin Tribute), "Mother Nature's Son" (I Am Sam Soundtrack), "La Ci Darem la Mano" from Don Giovanni (Pavarotti & Friends For War Child), and "Resuscitation" (The Faculty).

Within July 2005, she announced to Cycling News that her new album is known as Wild flower & is freed in Tuesday September 27th 2005.

Discography
Tuesday Night Music Club (1993) #3 USA Billboard 200, #8 UK, GRAMMY for Best New Artist "Leaving Las Vegas" (1993) #66 UK, USA Modern Rock Tracks #8 "All I Wanna Do" (1994) #2 USA Billboard Hot 100, #4 UK, #1 USA Full-grown Coeval, #1 United states Top Xl Mainstream, GRAMMY for Best Pop Vocal Performance and Record of the Year "Strong Enough" (1995) #5 USA Billboard Hot 100, #33 UK, #3 USA Top Xl Mainstream "Can't Cry Anymore" (1995) #33 UK "Run Baby Run" (1995) #24 UK "What I Can Do For You" (1995) #43 UK "I Shall Believe" (1995)

Sheryl Crow (1996) #6 USA Billboard 200, #5 UK, GRAMMY for Best Rock Album "If It Makes You Happy" (1996) #1United states Billboard Hot 100, #9 UK, #4 USA Top Xl Mainstream, GRAMMY for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance "Everyday Is A Winding Road" (1997) #11 USA Billboard Hot 100, #12 UK, #5 USA Top Xl Mainstream "Hard To Make A Stand (1997)" #22 UK "A Change Would Do You Good" (1997) #8 UK, #5 USA Adult Top 40 "Home" (1997) #25 UK

Tomorrow Never Dies soundtrack (1997) "Tomorrow Never Dies" (1997) #12 UK

The Globe Sessions (1998) #2 UK, #5 USA Billboard 200, GRAMMY for Best Rock Album "My Favorite Mistake" (1998) #2United states Billboard Hot 100, #9 UK, #2 United states Full-grown Top Forty, #5 USA Top Xl Mainstream "The Difficult Kind" (1998) "There Goes the Neighborhood" (1999) #19 UK, GRAMMY for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance

Sheryl Crow and Friends: Live in Central Park (1999) #107 USA Billboard 200 "Anything But Down (1999)" #19 UK

Big Daddy soundtrack (1999) "Sweet Child O' Mine" (1999) #30 UK

''C'mon C'mon (2002) #2 USA Billboard 200, #2 UK "Soak Up the Sun" (2002) #17 USA Billboard Hot 100, #16 UK, #1 America Top Xl, #5 USA Full-grown Contemporary "Steve McQueen" (2002) #44 UK, #13 USA Grownup Top Forty, GRAMMY for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance

The Very Best of Sheryl Crow (2003) #2 USA Billboard 200, #2 UK "The First Cut Is the Deepest" (2003) #37 UK "Light In Your Eyes" (2003) #73 UK

Wildflower (2005) #2 USA Hoarding 200, #25 UK Good is Good (2005) #64 US Billboard Hot 100, #75 UK

Guest appearances
Cocky (2001) "Picture (Kid Rock featuring Sheryl Crow)" (2001) #4 USA Billboard Hot 100, #2 United states Adult Top Xl, #4 USA Top 40 Mainstream

Videography
DVDs
Sleep in London (1996) Rockin' a Earth (1999) A Super Right of Sheryl Crow - a cd (November 2003) One hundred'mon America 2003 (December 2003)

VHSs
Sleep in London (1996) Rockin' a Earth (1999)

Laserdiscs
Sleep in London (1996)

VCDs
Sleep in London (1996) Rockin' a World'' (1999)