![]() 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 1998 Grammy Award-winning song " Sunny Came Home". Early lifeĬolvin was born Shawna Lee Colvin in Vermillion, South Dakota, and spent her youth in Carbondale, Illinois and London, Ontario, Canada. 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. Her first 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. Sheet music arranged for Audition Cut - Short, Piano/Vocal/Guitar, and Singer Pro in B Minor. "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. Print and download Sunny Came Home sheet music by Shawn Colvin. 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 their success. 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 Carbondale. She then entered "the folk circuit in and around Berkeley", California before straining her vocal cords and taking a sabbatical at the age of 24. It was Matt Kellys choice to discuss Shawn Colvins Sunny Came Home. Ĭolvin 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. Īfter 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. 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. You can also hear the track, plus 18 other songs, on the 20th Anniversary Edition of A Few Small Repairs in the Spotify widget below that.In 2004, she released a compilation of past songs called, Polaroids: A Greatest Hits Collection. Listen to ‘Sunny Came Home‘ from iZombie, Season 5, Episode 9, “ The Fresh Princess“, and watch the official music video for the track below. and the UK, so probably not a huge surprise it has become her signature song.Ĭolvin’s last album release was in 2018 with The Starlighter. The song did win her a Grammy Award for Song of the Year and for Record of the Year, though, and also charted high in Australia, Canada, Germany, the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() Released in 1996, the theme of the album is divorce, as it was written during the time Colvin was separating from her husband of just two years, Simon Tassano.Īnd, even though Colvin has had a very successful career spanning more than 30 years, she is still more known for ‘ Sunny Came Home‘ then just about anything else she has released before or since. In 1996, Colvin released her album A Few Small Repairs and in 1997 the success of her. Shawn Colvin’s ‘Sunny Came Home‘ is from her fourth studio album A Few Small Repairs. The song won the 1998 Grammy Awards for both Song and Record of the Year. The iconic track was played on the episode as we watched Major shoot the zombie at the pie festival. Folk rock singer Shawn Colvin’s ‘ Sunny Came Home‘ was featured on iZombie, Season 5, Episode 9, “ The Fresh Princess” last night (June 27th, 2019). ![]()
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