Sheryl Crow's warm voice, vibrant stage presence and rock-solid musicianship have made her one of the most enduring stars of our era. Her songwriting craft is firmly rooted in rock tradition, but her allusive, free-associative lyrics are all her own. Her songs, "All I Want to Do" "If It Makes You Happy," "Every Day Is a Winding Road," and "Soak Up the Sun" have become pop classics.

A former music teacher from Kennet, Missouri, she worked in near-anonymity for almost a decade as a backup vocalist and writer of songs for other artists, her efforts to forge a solo career thwarted by producers and record companies intent on squeezing her into a mainstream pop formula. She turned the corner in 1993 when she began meeting informally with a group of other studio players and writers who called themselves the Tuesday Night Music Club. When they turned their sessions into a record of the same name, the result swept the Grammy Awards and established Sheryl Crow as a major force in the music industry. Her records have sold millions of copies and earned her a total of nine Grammy awards.

In 2006, she survived an episode of breast cancer. She made her condition public to promote the importance of early detection. Fully recovered, she resumed touring and says of her performances, it is "a celebration every night of how lucky I feel with this life I have been given."