MOTHERHOOD Changes Everything
All Sheryl Crow wants to do is have some fun…with her two sons. “They love having dance parties before bed,” the singer-songwriter tells Closer of Wyatt, 10, and Levi, 7. “And they always get to pick the music.”
Now that will be easier thanks to ROXI, an electronic device Sheryl is promoting that allows families to enjoy music together via karaoke, trivia games and other applications. “When I grew up, you got a record and immediately took it to a friend’s house and listened to it,” says Sheryl, 55. “Now we listen to music on earbuds, and it’s very isolated.”
Sheryl learned the importance of family time after adopting Wyatt and Levi. “Motherhood changes everything,” she says. “They’re the first thing I think of in the morning and the last thing I think of at night.” She’s even taken the boys on tour and let them sing on her last album, Be Myself. “I think they enjoyed it a little too much,” she jokes.
Beating breast cancer in 2006 also gave Sheryl renewed priorities. “It was a game changer,” she says of surviving a lumpectomy and radiation. “It rebooted my inner computer and gave a lot of relativity to what’s important and what isn’t.”
She’s not one to dwell on the past, however. “Everything that has happened to me up to this point shaped me,” she says. “But I don’t look back. I want my boys to grow up knowing every day you get a new day.” And, as she sings, every day is a winding road. — Bruce Fretts,
with reporting by Katie Bruno
THE ROCKER OPENS UP TO CLOSER ABOUT HOW HER KIDS AND A SUCCESSFUL BREASTCANCER BATTLE GAVE HER NEW PERSPECTIVE “I just hope they love music, and I can tell they do.”
— Sheryl on her sons