Editing Sheryl Crow (section)

== Early life and education==
Crow was born on February 11, 1962,<ref>{{cite web|title=Sheryl Crow Archives|url=https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrities/sheryl-crow/|access-date=November 19, 2020|website=Us Weekly|archive-date=July 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200708045959/https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrities/sheryl-crow/|url-status=live}}</ref> in [[Kennett, Missouri]], the daughter of Bernice (née Cain), a piano teacher, and Wendell Wyatt Crow, a lawyer and trumpet player.<ref>{{cite news |first= Chrissy |last= Iley |title= Sheryl Crow: The crow must go on |work= The Sunday Times |date= March 16, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://sherylcrownews.com/lineage/index.htm |title=Family Lineage |publisher=Sherylcrownews.com |date=April 26, 2004 |access-date=December 4, 2013 |archive-date=February 1, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201222924/http://sherylcrownews.com/lineage/index.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=R_YoAAAAIBAJ&pg=638%2C7508298&dq=here-he-talks-with-the-fair-queen-miss-bernice-cain&hl=en|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130913124900/http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=R_YoAAAAIBAJ&sjid=x9QEAAAAIBAJ&pg=638%2C7508298&dq=here-he-talks-with-the-fair-queen-miss-bernice-cain&hl=en|url-status=dead|title=The Southeast Missourian – Google News Archive Search|date=September 13, 2013|archive-date=September 13, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g7UjAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Wendell+Wyatt+Crow+(Campbell+Missouri+1932)+Admitted%22 |title=The American Bar, the Canadian Bar, the International Bar – Mary Reincke, Sylvia Stokes – Google Books |date=March 1, 1999 |publisher=R.B. Forster & Associates |isbn=9780931398049 |access-date=December 4, 2013 |archive-date=December 14, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201214011242/https://books.google.com/books?id=g7UjAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Wendell+Wyatt+Crow+%28Campbell+Missouri+1932%29+Admitted%22 |url-status=live }}</ref> Her great-grandfather was Congressman [[Charles&nbsp;A. Crow]] (1873–1938).{{citation needed|date=July 2024}} She has two older sisters, Kathy and Karen, and a younger brother, Steven.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-11-02 |title=Sheryl Crow - Songs, Age & Kids |url=https://www.biography.com/musicians/sheryl-crow |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=Biography |language=en-US}}</ref>

While studying at Kennett High School, Crow was a [[majorette (dancer)|majorette]] and an all-state [[Track and field|track]] athlete, winning medals in the 75-meter low hurdles. She also joined the pep club, the [[National Honor Society]], and the [[National FFA Organization]], and was crowned Paperdoll Queen in a celebrity-judged beauty contest<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.dddnews.com/story/2120803.html | title=Miss America Pageant: Memories from Kennett | work=The Daily Dunklin Democrat | first=Laura | last=Scott | date=September 20, 2014 | access-date=February 11, 2016 | archive-date=February 15, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160215213024/http://www.dddnews.com/story/2120803.html | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.yahoo.com/beauty/the-best-celeb-prom-photos-c1429834587638.html | title=The Best Celeb Prom Photos | date=April 24, 2015 | work=Yahoo Beauty | access-date=August 23, 2015 | archive-date=September 4, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904015946/https://www.yahoo.com/beauty/the-best-celeb-prom-photos-c1429834587638.html | url-status=live }}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=Its just some thing on Yahoo. I don't know how well its been vetted. | date=August 2015}} during her senior year.

She then enrolled at the [[University of Missouri]] in [[Columbia, Missouri|Columbia]] and in 1984 received a BS Ed degree<ref>{{Cite web|last=Pojmann|first=Karen|title=Sheryl Crow Comes Home|url=https://mizzoumag.missouri.edu/2015/11/sheryl-crow-comes-home/|access-date=May 3, 2021|website=MIZZOU Magazine}}</ref> in music education.<ref>{{Cite web|date=April 20, 2011|title=MU Awards Honorary Degree to Musician Sheryl Crow |url=https://munewsarchives.missouri.edu/news-releases/2011/0420-mu-to-award-honorary-degree-to-musician-sheryl-crow/index.html|access-date=May 3, 2021|website=University of Missouri News Bureau}}</ref> While at the university, she sang in the local band Cashmere. She was a member of the [[Kappa Alpha Theta]] sorority, [[Sigma Alpha Iota]] International Music Fraternity for Women, and the [[Omicron Delta Kappa]] honor society, as well as working as a summer welcome orientation leader.<ref>{{cite video |people= Ben Graham |date= April 28, 2003 |title= Maximum Sheryl Crow |medium= Audio CD |publisher= Chrome Dreams }}</ref>