# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shawn-colvin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:51:35.556Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shawn-colvin"
name: "Shawn Colvin"
slug: "shawn-colvin"
description: "Shawna Lee \"Shawn\" Colvin is an American singer and songwriter. She began her career performing in several folk and rock bands throughout the 1970s and 1980s before touring with Suzanne Vega in 1988, which landed her a recording contract with Columbia Records. Her debut studio album Steady On (1989) received the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. Her subsequent albums Fat City (1992) and Cover Girl (1994) saw moderate commercial success before Colvin's fourth studio album A Few Small Repairs (1996) saw the large success of the single \"Sunny Came Home\", which received the Grammy Award for Song of the Year and Record of the Year. Colvin's career also gained a following in the 1990s after she performed during all three original iterations of the Lilith Fair music festival. Following the release of her fifth studio album Whole New You (2001), Colvin signed with Nonesuch Records for her next two studio albums These Four Walls (2006) and All Fall Down (2012), both of which saw continued moderate success. Her most recent studio releases include Uncovered (2015) and The Starlighter (2018). William Morrow published Colvin's memoir Diamond in the Rough in 2012 to a positive reception."
tagline: "American singer-songwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ShawnColvinJune08.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1956-01-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           68.1
  momentum:             0.2539750293458542
  historical:           18.07925733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     95
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 39800
platforms:
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    handle:    "shawn_colvin"
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    handle:    "shawn_colvin"
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  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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    handle:    "@shawncolvinvideos"
    followers: 39800
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shawn Colvin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shawn Colvin"
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    title: "Shawn Colvin"
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    title: "Shawn Colvin"
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    title: "Shawn Colvin"
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    title: "Shawn Colvin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Колвин, Шон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump