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Sheryl Crow
One afternoon in 1986, Sheryl Crow came home and told her parents that she was moving to Los Angeles, and five days later she was gone. She knew no-one in L. A., but she wanted to "escape from the conservative, restrained world of Missouri." In Los Angeles she worked as a waitress and did some singing for commercials, and at one of those sessions, she overheard a conversation about auditions for a Michael Jackson tour.
"It was supposed to be on recommendation only, but I just showed up. They were videoing everyone, so I just said, �Hi, Mike! I�m Sheryl from Missouri. I�d sure like to go on the road with you.� And that was it. They sent the video to him and he saw it, called me back the next day, I sang, and I got it. He must have looked at me and thought, 'Ah, she looks completely harmless; she looks like she just got off a truck out of the country or something'" She was the back-up singer on Michael Jackson�s �Bad World Tour� and toured the entire two years.

After the Bad Tour, she did back-up vocals in the studio with some very famous singers: Sting, Stevie Wonder, Rod Stewart, Don Henley (also appears in one of his videos) and Foreigner. Her songs were recorded by such astists as Eric Clapton, Lisa Lisa, Cult Jam, and Wynnona Judd. The work paid well, but Don Henley finally gave Sheryl a clue about where her future lay: "Don was the one who said �You should quit letting your songs go to other artist and do your own thing, and that means quit doing any back-up work.� So that�s what I did. And for the next two years, I sat around ,going, Hmmm, now what do I do? I�m starving!"

She spent those two years writing songs, and with no record contract in sight, she got pretty depressed. She didn�t give up, though. Eventually, through therapy and antidepressants, she got over that period and it is then that she was invited to join the Tuesday Night Music Club.

She recorded her first album Sheryl Crow but decided to scrap it claiming it was too mature. Later, she would team up with Bob Botrell to produce the very commercially successful Tuesday Night Music Club. Although the album wasn't intended to be an album, the late night jam sessions were such a hit with the public that the album's first single "All I Wanna Do" instantly launched her career into overdrive and placed her solidly into pop culture.

She promoted the album by touring with such artists as Crowded House and appeared on MTV's Unplugged and at Woodstock '94. She was also nominated for five Grammies and won Best New Artist, Female Vocalist, and Record of the Year.

She hit the studio again and recorded another Grammy award winning album. Sheryl Crow, her second album, released September, 1996 is arguably her best yet. Singles released from this album so far include "If It Makes You Happy," "Everyday is a Winding Road, " and "A Change." Sheryl has been on anexhaustive tour so far this year and will be playing a few Lilith Fair shows, as well as launching a world tour later this year.

Sheryl's popularity at the Wal-Mart department store chain, however, took a downfall. Wal-Mart banned the sale of her album after a song contained an editorial lyric about Wal-Mart selling guns to children. The song, "Love is a Good Thing," reflected on an expos� done by a news agency regarding Wal-Mart. In it, a young child under the age of 21 was video taped by hidden cameras making a gun purchase.

Sheryl Crow will be performing live in Tampa on Saturday, September 20th at the USF Sundome, Tampa, 8 pm. Tickets are $23.75 and $27.75 and can be purchased by phone: 813-287-8844 or online at Ticketmaster.

Hear Sheryl Crow:
"If It Makes You Happy"
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"Everyday is a Winding Road"
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"A Change"
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-- Reprinted from the Sheryl Crow Internet Music Club and A & M Records

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