Her studio session work soon caught the attention of A&M Records, which signed her to a recording contract in 1991. Late in 1989, Crow secured a job singing backup for Don Henley, a gig that eventually led to work with Rod Stewart and several other big-name acts. Because then it makes you even loathe yourself more for being sick.'

'When I went through a really bad bout of depression, my mom would call, and my mom and I are very close,' she told Schruers, 'but she would call, and she would say, 'You're a cute girl, you're smart, you've got everything in the world going for you,' and that would just make it worse.

Tired and again depressed, Crow endured several difficult months. The exhusing pace of the tour, during which the tabloid press identified her as Jackson's lover, wore her down. 'Being a background singer-putting on a tight black dress and doing choreography-has very little to do with being a musician,' she told Robert Seidenberg in Entertainment Weekly. Like 'Oh my God, what have I done?''Д¬row's break came after only six months, however, when she crashed a closed audition and landed a job singing back-up for Michael Jackson's 1987 Bad international concert tour. I pulled in on the 405 at 4:30 in the afternoon, and sat in traffic and just cried my eyes out. 'I got in my car with a box of tapes and I drove from Missouri out to L.A., 28 hours by myself, nonstop. 'I'd just broken up with a boy and I was really bummed out,' Crow recalled in a conversation with Newsweek's Karen Schoemer. Louis for the West Coast, a move that stunned her family and friends. Her nights, meanwhile, were spent singing lead vocals in a variety of local rock bands. Louis, where she spent her days working as a music teacher at an elementary school. It's a bizarre and twisted feeling where you feel completely paralyzed.'ДЄfter graduating from Kennett High School, Crow moved on to the University of Missouri and took music and education classes. 'In sleep paralysis, sometimes you get to the point where you are sure you're going to die in the dream, and your breathing stops and all that. 'There would be nights where I would be so afraid to go to sleep,' she told Schruers. 'She wasn't shy about getting out and doing something, even if it meant that she had to be out by herself doing it.' But while Crow was a popular, athletic student who posted good grades, she endured many nights of what she would later call 'sleep paralysis,' a condition she shared with her mother. 'Sheryl was a cheerleader and a twirler,' her sister Kathy recalled in an interview with Rolling Stone's Fred Schruers. That album and her following releases, The Globe Sessions, and C'mon, C'mon, were well-received by both critics and the record-buying public, confirming that the singer was more than a one-album wonder.Д¬row was born on February 11, 1962, in Kennett, Missouri, a sturdy Midwestern community and the backdrop for an outwardly normal childhood. In the fall of 1996, three years after her debut, Crow released a second album, Sheryl Crow. ДЄfter several years of backup singing for established artists-and one aborted bid at launching a solo career-Sheryl Crow burst onto the pop music scene with 1993's Tuesday Night Music Club, a strong album that included two hit singles, 'Leaving Las Vegas' and 'All I Wanna Do.' Blessed with a voice well suited to her rock 'n' roll material and what Rolling Stone's Elysa Gardner termed 'naughty-cheerleader good looks,' Crow became a ubiquitous presence on MTV and VH-1. Addresses: Record company-Interscope Records, 2220 Colorado Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90404. Education: Received degree in piano and voice from University of Missouri at Columbia, c. Born on February 11, 1962, in Kennett, MO daughter of Wendell (a lawyer and trumpeter) and Bernice (a piano teacher) Crow.

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