Shawn Colvin

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Shawn Colvin (born January 10, 1956) is an American singer-songwriter and musician.

While Colvin has been a solo recording artist for nearly three decades, she is perhaps best known for her 1997 Grammy-winning song, "Sunny Came Home".

Early life

Colvin was born Shawna Lee Colvin in Vermillion, South Dakota, and spent her youth in Carbondale, Illinois and London, Ontario, Canada. She is the second of four children. She learned to play guitar at the age of 10 and grew up listening to her father's collection of music, which included artists such as Pete Seeger and the Kingston Trio.

Personal life

Colvin has been married twice, first to Simon Tassano in 1993 whom she divorced in 1995, and to photographer Mario Erwin, whom she married in 1997 and divorced in 2002. She gave birth to daughter Caledonia in July 1998.

Colvin has taken part in several triathlons.

Colvin says she has struggled on and off with depression, alcoholism, and anxiety. She has written about these struggles in her 2012 memoir Diamond in the Rough, published by HarperCollins.

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Career

She got her first paid job right after she started attending Southern Illinois University. It wasn't difficult to find a gig on the main street with a strip of bars down. "I played four 45-minute sets for $30." For the next year, she was either playing somewhere or sitting in with someone else, and she started attracting a local audience. Colvin formed a band with Dennis Conroy (formerly of the Chicago band The Cryan' Shames), Jack O'Boyle on guitar, and Brian Sandstrom on bass, broadening her horizons. They also expanded their base in Illinois for six months. However, Colvin's personal demons, as well as heroin and alcohol use, stifled their success. Dixie Diesels, a Carbondale country-swing outfit, were her next target. They were short of a female singer, and they jumped at the chance. Carbondale was not the place and the band had to relocate to Austin, and they had decided not to make it. This was Colvin's ticket out of Carbondale. She then began to "the folk circuit in and around Berkeley, California," before strained her vocal cords and undergoing a sabbatical at the age of 24.

Colvin moved to New York City in 1980, joining the Buddy Miller Band in 1980 and later becoming involved in the Greenwich Village Fast Folk cooperative.

She appeared in Off-Broadway shows including Pump Boys and Dinettes, and producer Steve Addabbo hired her to perform backup vocals on Suzanne Vega's song "Luka" in 1987.

Colvin signed to Columbia Records as a singer on tour and then released her debut album Steady On 1989, she first performed with Vega. The album received a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. Fat City, Colvin's second album, was released in 1992 and received a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Recording. In the Best Female Pop Vocal category, her album "I Don't Know Why" was nominated for a Grammy. In 1993, she returned to Austin and released the album Cover Girl in 1994. Live 88, a collection of live recordings from 1988, was released in 1995 by Colvin.

Colvin's debut in 1996 on her album A Few Small Repairs, and her single "Sunny Came Home" boosted her to the top of the Adult Contemporary chart in 1997. Both Song and Record of the Year were nominated for the 1998 Grammy Awards. In 1998, Colvin released Holiday Songs and Lullabies, but in 2001, they released a new album titled Whole New You. Polaroids: A Greatest Hits Collection was released in 2004 by an artist who compiled a compilation of her previous songs, titled Polaroids: A Greatest Hits Collection.

Colvin released These Four Walls, a 15-song album on her new label, Nonesuch Records, which featured contributions from Patty Griffin and Teddy Thompson. Live, which was recorded at the jazz club Yoshi's in Oakland, California, was released in 2009.

All Fall Down, Colvin's eighth studio album, was released in 2012 and was created by Buddy Miller at his home studio in Nashville, Tennessee. Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, and Jakob Dylan appeared on the album, as guest stars. Colvin's memoir Diamond in the Rough was released in 2012. Colvin and Earle was a song she released in 2016 with Steve Earle. For its 20th anniversary, a few Small Repairs was reissued in 2017, including its first pressing on vinyl for the first time.

Colvin has performed on songs by James Taylor, Béla Fleck, Edwin McCain, Shawn Mullins, Elliott Murphy, Bruce Hornsby, and others who performed with Sting on the album "One Day She'll Love Me." She appeared on Curtis Stiger's 1995 album "Time Was" as a duet. In the Simpsons episode "Alone Again, Natura-Didddily," Colvin sang Rachel Jordan, Ned Flanders' love interest after Maude was killed, she lent her vocals to Mary Chapin Carpenter's 1992 album "Come On Come On" and "Come On Come On."

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