"Not to be confused with the Sadie Hawkins high school dance in which female students invite male students as dates, the ‘90s folk singer/songwriter Sophie B. Hawkins had much more feministic and grounded means for herself and for her career, recording self-searching and almost melancholy tunes that transformed the Alanis Morissette and Dawson's Creek-dominated ‘90s into a shapely decade of reflective music. The free-spirited Hawkins is a Grammy-nominated leader, and her contribution to the startup indie scene has earned her immeasurable success over the past decade.Hawkins was raised in the New York City music scene in the 1980s alongside African drum legend Babatunde Olatuni, studying at the Manhattan School of Music in her youth. By 1992, the budding singer/songwriter had battled (and won) the music scene to put out her debut album Tongues & Tails. Eventually picked up by Columbia Records, Hawkins' debut release instantly went gold, giving the artist her first taste at massive success with a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist. Tongues & Tails featured the smash single ""Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover,"" a free-spirited yet edgy dance-pop tune that put the name Sophie B. Hawkins on the map with a Top Five entry on the Billboard Hot 100.Blazing the path to full-blown success, Hawkins next released the brutally honest Whaler in 1994, again bowling a strike with the hit single ""As I Lay Me Down."" The staple song to the folk-pop music of the ‘90s, ""As I Lay Me Down"" was Hawkins' very first number one single on the charts, spanning several categories and setting the delicate singer up for her next album, 1999's Timbre. Releasing the album on her own Trumpet Swan label and taking to the road in a (fitting) station wagon, Hawkins has continued to release albums through the 2000s, including 2004's Wilderness and 2006's Live."