The untold story of rock musician Sheryl crow
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Heralded as a musician with enormous drive - even though some used that characteristic against her. Sheryl Crow’s success in the 90’s almost didn’t happen. Her debut record sat in limbo, she was and she almost lost her recording contract and despite the success of her debut album, it soon created a media firestorm with some of her early musical collaborators. Today, let’s talk about the career of Sheryl Crow.
Born in Kennett, missouri,population 10,000 Sheryl Crow was a self professed “moody” music geek growing up. wanting to know all the lyrics, and wanting to know who played what part on each album. Her parents were also encouraging getting her piano lessons at the age of 6. Her father, was a lawyer and trumpeter, and her mother, was, a piano teacher and music enthusiast.
Crow would attend university of missouri majoring in music Piano performance with a secondary degree in education. It was following school she joined a cover band where she was the only woman, a group called Cashmere. She would cite her influences growing up as the Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Rod Stewart. I’m guessing Led Zeppelin is somewhere in there too. She would land a job as an elementary music teacher in the st. louis public education system by the mid 80’s.. She was making $17,000 a year and got engaged to the guitar player in her band, who was also a born again christian. The plan was that she’d live in Missouri the rest of her life, have a family and live happily ever after but things wouldn’t work out that way. The engagement was broken off after Crow’s fiance told her if she wasn’t going to sing for the lord he couldn’t be with her.
But despite her fiance’s comments, Crow loved playing in bands and didn’t back down. One of her first big breaks would be doing a jingle for a mcdonalds that was only originally supposed to air regionally in and around st. louis. But it soon got picked up nationally. Crowe would admit that for 45 minutes of work she made $42,000.00 which was more than she made after 2 years of teaching. It was at this point she relocated to LA, since she was no longer engaged. thinking that she’d make a career playing music or at least writing jingles. She’d go home on a tuesday and tell her parents she was leaving for la on sunday. She was 24 at the time and had a good amount of determination. She had never been to any other city except St. Louis, so she was obviously overwhelmed by what she saw. She would live by the beach with several friends and one of the first things she did was to get a list of all the studios in LA and a map mapping out all the locations. She’d take her demo tape with her commercials and a few songs to the studios to see if she could get any work.
She soon began questioning her decision to move to LA after going into a studio one day and coming back out and seeing a boot on her car. She had no money to get her car back.
She did what everyone else was doing at the time who came to LA in search of their dreams of becoming famous. She waited tables at a place in the valley a jazz club called Le Cafe. It was a place where lots of well known musicians and industry people frequented. A guy named Les Hooper stopped by the place and he was a commercial producer. Crow gave him her tape, knowing she could fired for doing such a thing, which she was. The next morning she was letgo, but hooper heard the tape and loved it. He helped her get a job doing a national commercial for car maker Toyoto which paid $67,000.00, She was able to get her car back after getting that big cheque.
She soon started getting other work like doing a studio session with johnny mathis and even got a tv part on a show called cop rock - a detective show that was also a musical.It didn’t last very long on the air. I know To give you guys a timeline this was 1990. About a year prior in 1989 she would buy a 4 track recorder and she would do covers of Shaka Khan and Heart while also writing songs on her keyboard and programming drums. Then Crow got her big break. She had gotten word that michael jackson was holding auditions for his bad tour for backup singers and got the gig.
She soon got a passport, boarded a 747 an