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.
85 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 new 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, stars on Canada's Walk of Fame and the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and inductions into 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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Shania Twain currently holds a status card and is on the official band membership list of the Temagami First Nation.
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At that time, by virtue of her stepfather Jerry Twain being a full-blooded Ojibwe and the rights guaranteed to Native Americans in the Jay Treaty, Shania became legally registered as having 50 per cent Native 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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Campbell happened to be making an album by Canadian musician Tim Denis at the time and Shania Twain was featured on the backing vocals of the song "Heavy on the Sunshine".
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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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The album was more successful in Europe, where Shania Twain won Country Music Television Europe's "Rising Video Star of the Year" award.
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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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Lange and Shania Twain either wrote or co-wrote the songs that would form her second studio album, The Woman in Me.
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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 women crossover artists.
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In 1998, Shania Twain launched her first major concert tour, aided by her manager Jon Landau, a veteran of many large-scale tours with Bruce Springsteen.
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In 2000, Shania Twain was initially scheduled to release a Christmas album, but plans to release one were cancelled later in the year.
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The album included 16 tracks recorded in the late 1980s before Shania Twain signed her record deal with Mercury.
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In June 2009, Shania Twain released a letter to her fans explaining the delays in the release of her next album, noting she had gone through personal pains and was focusing on raising her son Eja.
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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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On June 8,2011, at a press conference at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Shania Twain announced that she would headline Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for two years.
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Shania Twain's show, titled Still the One, began on December 1,2012, with shows expected to run in 2013 and 2014.
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In July 2013, Shania Twain announced on Facebook that she was working on her album over the summer during a break from Still the One.
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In October 2013, Shania Twain sat down with Robin Roberts from Good Morning America as a featured artist on the Countdown to the CMA Awards.
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Outside of her show at Caesars Palace, Shania Twain performed two concerts at the Calgary Stampede in Calgary, Alberta, on July 9 and 10,2014.
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Alongside her Calgary Stampede shows, Shania Twain headlined a show on Labour Day weekend at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
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On March 4,2015, Shania Twain announced on Good Morning America she would be going on tour for the first time in 11 years, and would begin June 5 in Seattle, Washington, and end on October 11 in Toronto, Ontario.
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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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In February 2017, Shania Twain again spoke to Rolling Stone about the album; select song titles were confirmed, as Shania Twain detailed that she had not only hoped to release a single in March, but that she planned to release the album in May She performed at the 2017 Stagecoach Festival, held on April 29.
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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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In June 2017, Shania Twain announced on ET Canada that she would in fact tour with her new album Now.
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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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On September 9,2022, Shania Twain announced "Waking Up Dreaming" as the first single from her sixth studio album, Queen of Me.
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Shania Twain appeared as herself in the 2004 feature film I Heart Huckabees.
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On November 12,2008, Shania Twain made her first television appearance since her split from Lange, where she appeared as a surprise presenter at the 42nd CMA Awards.
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In 2009, Shania Twain served as a guest judge on American Idol, for the show's August 30 and 31 episodes.
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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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On October 23,2017, Shania Twain appeared as a guest judge on the 25th season of Dancing with the Stars during the show's "Movie Night", and performed her song "Soldier".
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Shania Twain appeared as a guest judge on episode five of the 10th Season of Rupaul's Drag Race.
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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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In November 2018, Shania Twain appeared in the reality talent show Real Country, as an executive producer and co-presenter with Jake Owen and Travis Tritt.
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In 2019, Shania Twain appeared in the film Trading Paint, co-starring alongside John Travolta.
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In 2020, Shania Twain played the role of the mother of singer Jeremy Camp in the biographical film I Still Believe.
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In 2018, Shania Twain underwent laryngoplasty to have Gore-Tex stabilizers implanted in her throat to reduce the workload on her vocal muscles.
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Shania Twain did little writing on her self-titled debut album, but Lange noticed the singer "had a distinctive voice as a songwriter" he felt had been overlooked by other collaborators.
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Shania Twain has expressed that she is not particularly fond of performing live.
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Shania Twain cites Karen Carpenter, Dolly Parton, Mickey Guyton, Taylor Swift, The Chicks, Wynonna Judd, and Kelsea Ballerini as some of the women country artists who inspire her.
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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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Early in her career, Shania Twain found herself at-odds with the conservative opinions of the country music industry at the time due to her assertive personality and proclivity for wearing revealing outfits that exposed her midriff.
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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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Shania Twain maintains that she did not dress proactively 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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At one point, Shania Twain was considered to be among the biggest music stars in the world.
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Shania Twain has been cited as a major influence among Canadian country music artists such as 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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Shania Twain is credited for being the first of many country artists to cross over into pop music.
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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 America's Second Harvest.
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In late 2005, Twain partnered with Coty to produce her namesake fragrance "Shania" by Stetson.
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On January 1,2010, Shania Twain carried the Olympic Torch through her hometown as part of the 2010 Winter Olympics torch relay.
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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 then 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.