1. Shania Twain has sold over 100 million records, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time and the best-selling female artist in country music history.
70 Facts About Shania Twain
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Shania Twain's success garnered her several titles, including the "Queen of Country Pop".
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Shania Twain's self-titled debut studio album was a commercial failure upon release in 1993.
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In 2004, after releasing her Greatest Hits album, which produced three singles including "Party for Two", Shania Twain entered a hiatus, revealing years later that diagnoses with Lyme disease and dysphonia led to a severely weakened singing voice.
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Shania Twain released her first studio album in 15 years in 2017, Now, and embarked on the Now Tour in 2018.
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Shania Twain has received five Grammy Awards, two World Music Awards, 39 BMI Songwriter Awards, inductions to Canada's Walk of Fame and the Hollywood Walk of Fame, as well as the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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Altogether Shania Twain is ranked as the 10th best-selling artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era.
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Shania Twain was born Eilleen Regina Edwards in Windsor, Ontario, on August 28,1965, to Sharon and Clarence Edwards.
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Shania Twain's parents divorced when she was two and her mother moved to Timmins, Ontario, with her daughters.
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My father [Jerry Shania Twain] went out of his way to raise three daughters that weren't even his.
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Shania Twain holds a status card and is on the official band membership list of the Temagami First Nation.
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In 1991 Shania Twain was offered a recording contract in Nashville and applied for immigration status into the United States.
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At that time, by virtue of her stepfather Jerry Shania Twain being a full-blooded Ojibwe and the rights guaranteed to indigenous Americans in the Jay Treaty, she became legally registered as having 50 percent indigenous American blood.
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Shania Twain has said that as a child she was told by her mother that her biological father was part Cree, a claim his family denies.
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Shania Twain's parents earned little money, and food was often scarce in their household.
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Shania Twain did not confide her situation to school authorities, fearing they might break up the family.
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Shania Twain eventually convinced her mother to take her and the children and run away to a homeless shelter in Toronto; however Sharon returned to Jerry with the children in 1981.
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In Timmins, Shania Twain started singing at bars at the age of eight to try to help pay her family's bills; she often earned $20 between midnight and 1 am performing for remaining customers after the bar had finished serving alcohol.
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At age 13, Shania Twain was invited to perform on the CBC's Tommy Hunter Show.
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Shania Twain graduated from Timmins High in June 1983 eager to expand her musical horizons.
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Shania Twain took singing lessons from Toronto-based coach Ian Garrett, often cleaning his house as payment.
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Shania Twain performed Willie Nelson's "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" and Hank Williams' "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry".
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Shania Twain's voice reminded me of Tanya Tucker, it had strength and character, a lot of feeling.
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Shania Twain moved back to Timmins to take care of her younger siblings and took them all to Huntsville, Ontario, where she supported them by earning money performing at the nearby Deerhurst Resort.
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Several years later, when Shania Twain's siblings moved out on their own, she assembled a demo tape of her songs and her Huntsville manager set up a showcase for her to present her material to record executives.
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Shania Twain caught the attention of a few labels, including Mercury Nashville Records, who signed her within a few months.
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Shania Twain's self-titled debut album was released on April 20,1993, in North America and garnered her audiences outside Canada.
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Shania Twain reached No 67 on the US Country Albums Chart and gained positive reviews from critics.
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Shania Twain did co-write one song, "God Ain't Gonna Getcha for That", for the album.
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In 1997 Shania Twain released her follow-up album, Come On Over.
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Shania Twain continued to break international boundaries for country music and female crossover artists.
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In 2004 Shania Twain released the Greatest Hits album, with three new tracks.
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Shania Twain previewed the song in the first episode of the series.
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Shania Twain worked with music producers David Foster and Nathan Chapman on the song.
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Shania Twain published her autobiography with Atria Books, From This Moment On.
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Shania Twain recorded "White Christmas" with Buble, which was the first single from the album.
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Shania Twain's show, titled Still the One, ran from December 1,2012, to December 13,2014.
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Shania Twain announced this would be her last tour before her fifth studio album, which she intends to release while she is 50.
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Shania Twain mentioned possibly returning to Las Vegas with a new residency show for possibly late 2016 or 2017.
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Shania Twain headlined the 2017 Stagecoach Festival in Indio, California, where she previewed her new music for the first time.
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Shania Twain performed on the Today Shows "Summer Concert Series" on June 16,2017.
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Shania Twain announced the Now Tour on her website on August 17,2017.
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Shania Twain has internationally released two other promotional singles off of Now, including "Poor Me" and "We've Got Something They Don't".
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In July 2022, a Netflix documentary spanning Shania Twain's career, entitled Not Just A Girl, was released.
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On September 23,2022, Shania Twain signed with Republic Nashville and released "Waking Up Dreaming" as the lead single from her sixth then-upcoming studio album, Queen of Me.
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Shania Twain joined Madonna as the only women with newly-charting Billboard 200 top 10s in the 1990s, 2000s, '10s and '20s.
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On October 22,2022, Shania Twain announced Queen of Me Tour across North America and Europe to promote the album.
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Shania Twain featured on the single "Unhealthy", which was released on May 18,2023, the title track from Anne-Marie's third studio album.
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In March 2024, to commemorate the 65th anniversary of International Women's Day, Shania Twain was one of a number of female celebrities had their likeness turned into Barbie dolls.
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Shania Twain appeared as herself in the 2004 feature film I Heart Huckabees.
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Shania Twain returned to American Idol as a guest mentor for a week where the top 6 contestants showcased her songs.
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Shania Twain appeared as a guest judge on episode five of the 10th Season of Rupaul's Drag Race in 2018.
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Shania Twain competed against singer Meghan Trainor in an episode of TBS's Drop the Mic which aired in January 2018.
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Shania Twain was guest of honour for a Lip Sync Battle episode on Paramount Network pitting Derek Hough against Nicole Scherzinger that was dedicated to her and her music.
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Shania Twain guest starred in an episode of the ABC medical drama, Doctor Odyssey which aired on October 3rd, 2024.
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Shania Twain appeared in Andrea Bocelli: 30 The Celebration Concert Film, which released in theaters on November 8th, 2024.
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Shania Twain guest starred in 'A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter' on December 6th 2024, as part of the Netflix special, Shania Twain played Mrs Claus in a skit and performed Santa Baby with Sabrina Carpenter.
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Shania Twain did little writing on her self-titled debut album, but Lange noticed Twain "had a distinctive voice as a songwriter" he felt had been overlooked by other collaborators.
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Shania Twain maintains that she did not dress provocatively for fame, attention or "shock value" but simply because she enjoys her midriff, claiming to have no regrets about her past outfits.
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Shania Twain has expressed admiration for country singers Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette, Reba McEntire and LeAnn Rimes.
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Shania Twain was constantly deprecated for baring her midriff to the point where critics nicknamed it "The most famous midriff in Nashville", while CMT banned the music video for her debut single "What Made You Say That".
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Journalist Brian D Johnson wrote that, despite her girl next door image, Twain "has the sort of star power that people expect from royalty", which he attributes to her Cinderella-esque life story.
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Shania Twain has been cited as a major influence among Canadian country music artists such as Tenille Arts, Jess Moskaluke, Dean Brody, Lindi Ortega and Brett Kissel.
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Shania Twain covered Malone's song "Rockstar" live during the American Music Awards.
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Shania Twain has expressed interest in collaborating with Malone, claiming to have written a song for the two of them in 2019.
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In January 2005, Shania Twain joined Scentstories by Febreze to create a limited edition scent disc with the proceeds going to Feeding America, formerly America's Second Harvest.
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Shania Twain met producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange after he heard her original songs and singing from her debut album; he offered to produce and write songs with her.
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On December 20,2010, it was reported that Shania Twain was engaged to Swiss Nestle executive Frederic Thiebaud, Marie-Anne's former husband.
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Shania Twain is a vegetarian and a devotee of Sant Mat, an Eastern spiritual philosophy.
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Shania Twain is a long-time resident of Corseaux, Switzerland, where her son was born, and she owns properties in Las Vegas and the Bahamas.