Her inspiring and candid memoir, Diamond In The Rough. While Colvin has been a solo recording artist for decades, she is best known for her 1998 Grammy Award -winning song 'Sunny Came Home'.

The song Sunny Came Home gave Colvin a Top 10 hit, a platinum-. She triumphed at the 1998 GRAMMY Awards, winning both Record and Song of the Year for Sunny Came Home. Shawn Colvin (born Shawna Lee Colvin, January 10, 1956) 1 is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Shawn Colvin has been a mainstay of the singer-songwriter world, releasing thirteen superlative albums and establishing herself as one of America’s most revered live performers. In 1996, she released A Few Small Repairs (1996), which would prove to be her breakthrough. An eventful decade later, Colvin triumphed again at the 1998 GRAMMY® Awards, winning both Record and Song of the Year for “Sunny Came Home.” Shawn won her first GRAMMY® Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album with her 1989 debut album, Steady On. She graduated to headliner status before she had even released an album, selling out her homemade live cassette every night before signing a record contract with Columbia in short order.

She performed breathtaking opening sets for veteran artists like Richard Thompson and Loudon Wainwright who she would very soon count among her peers. In the late 80s, Shawn Colvin’s relationship with the Valley took root at the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton.

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