{"id":824228,"date":"2026-11-04T20:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T20:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/824228\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T20:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T20:34:09","slug":"sheryl-crow-reveals-incredible-welsh-family-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/824228\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheryl Crow reveals ‘incredible’ Welsh family heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"

American singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow has described her “incredible” links to Wales, revealing that her mother’s side of the family was from the country.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Bronwen Lewis on BBC Radio Wales<\/a>, the nine-time Grammy winner recalled visiting Wales for the first time with her parents in about 1990 while touring as a backing singer for Michael Jackson.<\/p>\n

Crow, best known for hits including All I Wanna Do and If It Makes You Happy, said she did not know where exactly in Wales her family came from, but expressed a desire to research her heritage further.<\/p>\n

“I need to do one of those DNA things,” she said.<\/p>\n

Crow also discussed the legacy of country music legend Dolly Parton – whose family tree has been traced <\/a>to Machynlleth in Powys.<\/p>\n

Lewis, also a singer-songwriter, shared with Crow that she collaborated on a Welsh language version of the song Jolene<\/a> with Parton and Parton’s niece, Jada Star.<\/p>\n

The song was released on 9 October after Parton’s death on 25 August 2026<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Crow said she would love to have her songs translated into Welsh, and called Parton a “wonderful person” and “a singer no one could compete with”. <\/p>\n

She said Parton’s death had made her reflect on her contribution to the world: “For me, when she passed away, for the next two to three weeks I walked around feeling like am I doing enough to serve humanity?”<\/p>\n

“Am I doing enough to lift up people in my community?<\/p>\n

“Because she was not only masterful at it, but selfless about it.”<\/p>\n

Crow highlighted Parton’s Imagination Library<\/a>, her literacy programme that sends one free book a month to children from birth to age five, as an example of this philanthropy.<\/p>\n

Crow, who was born in Missouri, has worked professionally as a singer for almost 40 years, starting as a backing singer on Jackson’s Bad World Tour before releasing her commercially successful debut album Tuesday Night Music Club in 1993. <\/p>\n

She has collaborated with several artists including Stevie Wonder, Willie Nelson, Stevie Nicks and Eric Clapton and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2023. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow has described her “incredible” links to Wales, revealing that her mother’s side of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-824228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}