Shawn Colvin

As a storyteller, Colvin is both keen and warm hearted, leavening even the toughest tales with tenderness, empathy and a searing sense of humor. In the 19 years since the release of her debut album, Colvin has won three Grammy’s®, released eight albums, maintained a nonstop national and international touring schedule, appeared on countless television and radio programs, had her songs featured in major motion pictures and created a remarkable cannon of work.
Combined sales of her albums total to more than 2.5 million copies in the United States alone, and Colvin continues to perform at least 50-60 shows a year. Over the years she has shared the stage and toured with legendary artist such as Jackson Browne, Bonnie Rait, Bruce Hornsby, Emmylou Harris, and Lyle Lovett. She has toured internationally through her career, returning to places as near as the UK and Europe as far as Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. She was honored to perform with David Broza and Jackson Browne in a very special sunrise concert at the base of the 2000 year old fortress of Masada in Southern Israel, overlooking the Dead Sea. The concert broadcast on PBS stations throughout the U.S. in the late fall of 2007 and in early 2008.
Colvin was born in Vermillion, South Dakota, where she lived until she was eight. A small-town childhood in the University town of Carbondale, Illinois drew her to the guitar but the age of 10. She made her first public appearance on campus at the University of Illinois at 15. By the late 1970s Colvin was singing in a Western Swing Band in Austin, Texas- the city she now calls home. Moving to New York at the decade’s end she remained in the country music field as a member of the Buddy Miller Band until she met producer, guitarist and co-writer John Leventhral. Leventhral inspired Colvin to find her own voice as a songwriter. She began honing her skill, and was soon signed to Columbia Records, her first album ‘Steady On’ on a Grammy® Award for Best Contemporary Folk Recording.

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