Shawn Colvin Biography

Shawn Colvin is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She has been a solo recording artist for nearly 30 years and is best known for her 1997 Grammy-winning song, “Sunny Came Home”.

Shawn Colvin Age

Shawn Colvin was born in Vermillion, South Dakota, U.S. on January 10, 1956. She is 63 years as of 2019.

Shawn Colvin Family

Colvin was born in Vermillion, South Dakota. She 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.

Shawn Colvin Husband

Colvin has been married twice, first, she was married to Simon Tassano in 1993 whom she divorced later in 1995. She again married photographer Mario Erwin, in 1997 and divorced in 2002. She gave birth to daughter Caledonia in July 1998. Currently, she resides in Austin, Texas with her cats.

Shawn Colvin Career

Colvin moved to Austin, Texas in the mid-1970s and joined a Western swing band called the Dixie Diesels. She then entered “the folk circuit in Illinois and Berkeley”, California before straining her vocal cords and taking a sabbatical at the age of 24.

She relocated to New York City, joining the Buddy Miller Band in 1980 and later became involved in the Fast Folk cooperative of Greenwich Village.

While participating in off-Broadway shows such as Pump Boys and Dinettes she was featured in Fast Folk magazine, and in 1987, producer Steve Addabbo hired her to sing backup vocals on the song “Luka” by Suzanne Vega.

After touring with Vega, Colvin signed a recording contract with Columbia Records and in 1989, she released her first album Steady On. The album won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. Colvin’s second album Fat City was released in 1992 and received a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Folk Recording. Her song “I Don’t Know Why” was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Female Pop Vocal category. In 1993 she moved back to Austin and in 1994 released the album Cover Girl. Again in 1995, she released her album Live 88 a collection of live recordings from 1988.

In 1996, Colvin released her album A Few Small Repairs and the next year the success of her single “Sunny Came Home” catapulted her into the mainstream after spending four weeks at the number one spot on the Adult Contemporary chart. The song won the 1998 Grammy Awards for both Song and Record of the Year.

Colvin released the album Holiday Songs and Lullabies in 1998 and in 2001 released another album called Whole New You. Also, in 2004, she released a compilation of past songs called, Polaroids: A Greatest Hits Collection.

In 2006, Colvin left Columbia Records and released a 15-song album called These Four Walls on her new label, Nonesuch Records, which featured contributions by Patti Griffin and Teddy Thompson. Again in 2009, she released Live, which was recorded at the jazz club Yoshi’s in San Francisco, California.

Colvin’s eighth studio album, All Fall Down, was released in 2012 and was produced by Buddy Miller at his home studio in Nashville, Tennessee. The album featured guest appearances by Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, and Jakob Dylan. She published her memoir Diamond in the Rough still in 2012. In 2016 she recorded an album with Steve Earle called, Colvin and Earle. A Few Small Repairs was reissued in 2017, including its first pressing on vinyl, for its twentieth anniversary.

Colvin has made vocal contributions to songs by James Taylor, Béla Fleck, Edwin McCain, Shawn Mullins, Elliott Murphy, Bruce Hornsby and collaborated with Sting on the song “One Day She’ll Love Me”. She recorded as a duet the title track to Curtis Stigers 1995 album “Time Was”. She voiced Rachel Jordan, Ned Flanders’ love interest after Maude is killed, in The Simpsons episode “Alone Again, Natura-Diddily” on February 13, 2000, and lent her vocals to Mary Chapin Carpenter’s 1992 recordings, “The Hard Way” and “Come On Come On”.

Shawn Colvin Net Worth

Colvin is an American singer, songwriter, and musician whose primary source of income is from his music career. His estimated net worth is $2 million.

Shawn Colvin Discography

Albums

• Steady On (1989)
• Fat City (1992)
• Cover Girl (1994)
• A Few Small Repairs (1996)
• Holiday Songs and Lullabies (1998)
• Whole New You (2001)
• These Four Walls (2006)
• Shawn Colvin Live (2009)
• All Fall Down (2012)
• Uncovered (2015)
• Colvin and Earle with Steve Earle (2016)
• The Starlighter (2018)

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