CELEBRITY PROFILE
Shania Twain
Name: Eilleen Regina EdwardsBorn: August 28, 1965 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Nationality: Canadian
Address: Twain lives in Switzerland with Lange and their son Eja.
Eyes: Brown's
Hair: Dark Brown
Discovered: Growing up in Timmins, Ontario, Canada, at age 13, Shania performed on CBC television's Tommy Hunter Show. During high school in Timmins, she was the vocalist for a local band "Longshot". When her mother and adoptive father died in a car crash in November, 1987, Eilleen took her two younger brothers, Mark and Darryl and sister Carrie-Ann to Huntsville, Ontario, where she supported the family by performing at the Deerhurst resort.
She was discovered in 1991, when an entertainment lawyer from Nashville, Tennessee heard her act, and invited her to record a demo tape. In 1991, Shania signed her first recording contract with Richard Frank of Mercury Nashville Records, she changed her name to Shania (pronounced shu-NYE-uh) which is an Ojibwa word meaning "I'm on my way".
Shania learned early on that she couln't just be country singer, as she felt detached from the from the Nashville music scene. With the help of rock producer
Robert "Mutt" Lange, Shania steered more towards pop music. Her albums to follow were huge hits, including 1995's The Woman in Me, 1997's Come on Over, 2002's Up! and her recent Greatest Hits album. Confirming her popstar status, in the first edition of the 1998 VH1 Divas concert, Shania sang alongside Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan, and Aretha Franklin. In 1999 Shania established a commercial relationship with Revlon cosmetics, based on her single "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!".
SNAPSHOT
Resume: The Complete Limelight sessions (unauthorized), featuring demo songs she recorded during 1989 and 1990
Shania Twain (1993
The Woman in Me (1995)
Come on Over (1997)
Up! (2002)
Greatest Hits (2004)
Five Grammy Awards:
Three Academy of Country Music awards
One Country Music Association award
Seven Juno Awards (Canada\'s equivalent of the Grammy)
Six American Music Awards
Two Billboard Music Awards
One World Music Award. At least 22 BMI Songwriting Awards in partnership with Mutt Lange
Romance: Married to rock producer Robert "Mutt" Lange.
Know for: Her midriff bearing outfits.
Rumors: Some pop critics and fans see Shania as almost a robot, controlled by Lange. Some Nashville traditionalists still consider her a pop singer who simply markets her music as country. The most negative factions view her as just a gorgeous studio mannequin with a so-so voice, who got lucky and simply was in the right place at the right time. For example, infamous country outlaw Steve Earle called her "the highest paid lap dancer in Nashville."
Quotes: "All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond." - Shania Twain "Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it." -Shania Twain "I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain." - Shania Twain "I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful." - Shania Twain "Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this." - Shania Twain.
Shania Twain (1993
The Woman in Me (1995)
Come on Over (1997)
Up! (2002)
Greatest Hits (2004)
Five Grammy Awards:
Three Academy of Country Music awards
One Country Music Association award
Seven Juno Awards (Canada\'s equivalent of the Grammy)
Six American Music Awards
Two Billboard Music Awards
One World Music Award. At least 22 BMI Songwriting Awards in partnership with Mutt Lange
Romance: Married to rock producer Robert "Mutt" Lange.
Know for: Her midriff bearing outfits.
Rumors: Some pop critics and fans see Shania as almost a robot, controlled by Lange. Some Nashville traditionalists still consider her a pop singer who simply markets her music as country. The most negative factions view her as just a gorgeous studio mannequin with a so-so voice, who got lucky and simply was in the right place at the right time. For example, infamous country outlaw Steve Earle called her "the highest paid lap dancer in Nashville."
Quotes: "All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond." - Shania Twain "Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it." -Shania Twain "I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain." - Shania Twain "I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful." - Shania Twain "Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this." - Shania Twain.
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