Sheryl Crow

Sheryl Crow

Birth Date: February 11, 1962
Birth Place: Kennett, Mo.

February 2006 was a rough month for Sheryl Crow. She split with fiancé Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong. Then, soon after her 44th birthday, a lump was found during a routine mammogram. But Crow beat breast cancer without missing a note – even returning to her tour after surgery and radiation treatment.

She broke onto the music scene in 1993 with her folksy rock album, Tuesday Night Music Club, which led to three Grammys and sold more than 7 million copies. Eight years later, she went glam at 40 with a sexier look and new pop-influenced sound that rounded her Grammy collection to nine.

Today, Crow splits her time between her music, her cancer and ecological causes, and her son Wyatt Steven, whom she adopted in May 2007.