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Shawn Colvin is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has released eleven studio albums and has won three Grammy Awards. She has sold over five million albums worldwide. Colvin was born in Vermillion, South Dakota, and grew up in Carbondale, Illinois. She began playing guitar at the age of 10 and started writing songs at the age of 15. She attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she studied philosophy and anthropology. In the late 1980s, Colvin moved to Austin, Texas, where she began to perform regularly. She released her debut album, Steady On, in 1989, which won her a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. She has since released ten more albums, including A Few Small Repairs (1996), which won her two Grammy Awards. Colvin has also collaborated with many other artists, including Emmylou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and Steve Earle. She has also appeared on television shows such as The Tonight Show and Austin City Limits. Colvin is currently married to photographer Mario Erwin and lives in Austin, Texas.

Popular As Shawna Lee Colvin
Occupation Musician songwriter
Age 68 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 10 January 1956
Birthday 10 January
Birthplace Vermillion, South Dakota, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Who Is Shawn Colvin's Husband?

Her husband is Mario Erwin (m. 1997–2002), Simon Tassano (m. 1993–1995)

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Source of Income Songwriter

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Timeline

2019

Her first official paid gig came just after she started college at Southern Illinois University. With a strip of bars down the main street it wasn't difficult to find a gig. "For $30 I played four 45-minute sets." For the next year she was either playing somewhere or sitting in with someone else and started attracting a local following. Broadening her horizons, Colvin put a band together that featured Dennis Conroy (formerly with the popular Chicago band The Cryan’ Shames), Jack O’Boyle on guitar and Brian Sandstrom on bass. For six months they expanded their base throughout Illinois. But Colvin's personal demons coupled with drug and alcohol use curtailed the success they were having. Her next shot came with the Dixie Diesels, a Carbondale country-swing outfit. They were short a girl singer and she jumped at the opportunity. The band had decided if they were going to make it, Carbondale was not the place and planned to relocate to Austin. This was Colvin's ticket out of that charmless city. She then entered "the folk circuit in and Berkeley", California before straining her vocal cords and taking a sabbatical at the age of 24.

On October 25, 2019, Colvin was inducted into the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame.

2012

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. Colvin published her memoir Diamond in the Rough 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 20th anniversary.

Colvin says she has struggled on and off with depression, alcoholism, and anxiety, which she details in her 2012 memoir Diamond in the Rough published by HarperCollins.

2006

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. In 2009 she released Live, which was recorded at the jazz club Yoshi's in San Francisco, California.

2000

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". Colvin 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".

1996

In 1996, Colvin released her album A Few Small Repairs and in 1997 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. In 2004, she released a compilation of past songs called, Polaroids: A Greatest Hits Collection.

1993

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.

1989

After touring with Vega, Colvin signed a recording contract with Columbia Records and released her debut album Steady On in 1989. 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. In 1995 Colvin released her album Live 88 a collection of live recordings from 1988.

1987

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.

1980

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

1956

Shawn Colvin (born Shawna Lee Colvin, January 10, 1956) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. While Colvin has been a solo recording artist for decades, she is best known for her 1997 Grammy Award-winning song "Sunny Came Home".