Colvin released the album Holiday Songs and Lullabies in 1998 and in 2001 released another album called Whole New You. The song won the 1998 Grammy Awards for both Song and Record of the Year. 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. In 1995 Colvin released her album Live 88 a collection of live recordings from 1988. In 1993 she moved back to Austin and in 1994 released the album Cover Girl. Her song "I Don't Know Why" was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Female Pop Vocal category. Colvin's second album Fat City was released in 1992 and received a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Folk Recording. The album won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. Īfter touring with Vega, Colvin signed a recording contract with Columbia Records and released her debut album Steady On in 1989. 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. 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. 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. This was Colvin's ticket out of Carbondale.
The band had decided if they were going to make it, Carbondale was not the place and planned to relocate to Austin. They were short a girl singer and she jumped at the opportunity.
Her next shot came with the Dixie Diesels, a Carbondale country-swing outfit. But Colvin's personal demons coupled with drug and alcohol use curtailed their success. For six months they expanded their base throughout Illinois. 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 $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. With a strip of bars down the main street it wasn't difficult to find a gig. Her first paid gig came just after she started college at Southern Illinois University. 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. Colvin was born Shawna Lee Colvin in Vermillion, South Dakota, and spent her youth in Carbondale, Illinois and London, Ontario, Canada.
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