Sheryl Crow is known as an American singer and song writer. She is most famous for winning nine Grammys and for selling 50 million albums around the world.

Fame

Background

Sheryl Suzanne Crow was born on February 11, 1962, in Kennett, Missouri, to Wendell and Bernice Crow. She has two older sisters, Kathy and Karen, and one younger brother, Steve. Crow started playing piano at age 6. She graduated from Kennett High School in 1980 and the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1984, where she studied music. During school, she started performing with a local band, Cashmere.

After school, Crow worked as a music educator in a primary school in St. Louis before moving to Los Angeles in 1986. She started recording jingles for promoting customers, including McDonald's, and worked as a back-up singer.

Career

Sheryl irritated the members of The Tuesday Music Club when she appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman and guaranteed that the tune, "Leaving Las Vegas" was self-portraying, overlooking that it was a collective exertion between all members of the band. After this occurrence, the band decided that Sheryl ought to be alone. In 1995, she won three Grammy Awards for Best New Artist, Record of the Year for "All I Want to Do" and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for Tuesday Music Club. She also played out a MTV Unplugged session in 1995.

Crow released the album collection Sheryl Crow in 1996, winning two Grammy Awards for Best Rock Album and Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. She spent quite a bit of 1997 and 1998 on tour, playing select dates on the Rolling Stones' Bridges to Babylon tour and performing at the 1998 Lilith Fair shows. She released her third album collection, The Globe Sessions in the fall of 1998, which won a Grammy for Best Rock Album.

In June 2019, Crow released a new song with Joe Walsh.

Personal Life

Relationships

Crow was once involved in romantic relationships with musician Eric Clapton and actor Owen Wilson, Crow started dating amazing cyclist Lance Armstrong in 2003. The pair got engaged with each other in September 2005, yet they finished their relationship in the middle of 2006. Soon after the separation, Crow found that she had breast cancer growth.

Luckily, Crow's cancer was diagnosed in the beginning periods. She had a lumpectomy and experienced seven weeks of radiation. Subsequent to finishing her treatment, Crow purchased a steed ranch close Nashville, satisfying a youth dream. She later went on a music tour with John Mayer.