16
Months Crow spent as a backup singer on Michael Jackson’s Bad World Tour, an experience she has called a “crash course in the music business.”
44
Crow’s age when a routine mammogram detected ductal carcinoma in situ, a form of breast cancer, in 2006. With no family history or significant risk factors, she underwent a lumpectomy followed by seven weeks of radiation and was declared cancer-free. “I am a walking advertisement for early detection,” she has said.
2023
The year Crow was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, recognized for a body of work that helped define the ’90s singer-songwriter revival and broaden the space occupied by female voices in rock.
100
Weeks Crow’s 1993 debut, Tuesday Night Music Club, spent on the Billboard 200.
42,000
The paycheck Crow earned from singing a McDonald’s jingle that gave her the opportunity to pursue music full time in LA.
50,000,000+
Albums sold globally across a career that has moved freely through rock, pop, country and Americana.
33
Years her music career has spanned, shaped by reinvention, survival and an enduring instinct to write and create.
100+
Personal items Crow donated in 2016 for an auction benefiting Stand Up To Cancer, part of an advocacy story that continued well beyond her own recovery.
1984
The year Crow graduated from the University of Missouri with a degree in music education. She went on to teach elementary school music near St. Louis by day, while singing in bands on weekends.
13
Age when she wrote her first song. Raised in a musical household in Kennett, Missouri, she learned piano as a child before beginning to find a voice of her own.
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