Shania Twain

Shania Twain
OC
Twain at the 2011 Juno Awards in March 2011
Born
Eilleen Regina Edwards

(1965-08-28) August 28, 1965
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Other namesShania Twain
Occupations
Height163 cm (5 ft 4 in)
Spouse(s)
Robert John "Mutt" Lange
​
​
(m. 1993⁠–⁠2010)​

Frédéric Thiébaud
​
(m. 2011)​
Children1
Musical career
OriginTimmins, Ontario, Canada
Genres
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • guitar
Years active1993–present
LabelsMercury Nashville, Republic Records
Websitewww.shaniatwain.com

Shania Twain OC (born Eilleen Regina Edwards; August 28, 1965, in Timmins, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and record producer. She was married a long time to music producer Mutt Lange. She is very successful in the country and pop music genres. She had a residency show at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada, in late 2012.

Her 1995 album The Woman in Me brought her fame.[1] Her 1997 album Come On Over became the bestselling album of all time by a female musician in any genre[2] and the bestselling country album of all time. It has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide.[3]

In 2017, she released the album Now, her first in 15 years. She wrote and co-produced all of the songs. It entered at the top of the charts in Australia,[4] Canada, the UK, and the US,[5] where it opened with 137,000 combined copies and streams.

Personal life

Twain married music producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange on December 28, 1993. They have a son, Eja (pronounced "Asia") D'Angelo, who was born on August 12, 2001.[6] On May 15, 2008, a spokesperson for Mercury Nashville said that Twain and Lange were separating. This was after Lange allegedly had an affair with Twain's best friend, Marie-Anne Thiébaud.[7][8] Their divorce was finalized on June 9, 2010.[9] On December 20, 2010, Twain's manager said that Twain was engaged to Swiss Frédéric Thiébaud (the ex-husband of her former best friend), an executive at Nestlé.[10][11] They married on January 1, 2011, in Rincón, Puerto Rico.[12]

Twain is a longtime vegetarian.[13] In 2001 she was voted PETA's very first Sexiest Vegetarian Alive.[14]

In September 2010, it was confirmed that Twain was to release her first biography, From This Moment On, on May 3, 2011.[15] The cover work for the book was released on March 2, 2011.[16]

Awards and honours

In addition to the awards for her singles and albums, Twain has a number of personal honours:

  • She was named the 1999 Entertainer of the Year by both the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association. Twain was the first non-US citizen to win the CMA award.
  • Twain was ranked No.7 in Country Music Television's 40 Greatest Women of Country Music in 2002.[17]
  • In 2003, Twain was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.[18]
  • The city of Timmins (in Ontario, Canada) renamed a street for her, gave her the key to the city, and built the Shania Twain Centre in her honour.[19]
  • On November 18, 2005, Twain became an Officer of the Order of Canada.[20]
  • Twain was added to the Canadian Music Hall of Fame at the Juno Awards on March 27, 2011.
  • On June 2, 2011, Twain received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Her star is the 2,442nd Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the Category of Recording.[21]

Discography

Twain has released thirty-five singles from six studio albums, one greatest hits album, and one soundtrack album.

Studio albums

  • Shania Twain (1993)
  • The Woman in Me (1995)
  • Come On Over (1997)
  • Up! (2002)
  • Now (2017)
  • Queen of Me (2023)

Singles

References

  1. ↑ RIAA Top 100 Albums, Riaa.com, archived from the original on July 1, 2007, retrieved October 1, 2009
  2. ↑ Harris, Bill (November 7, 2005). "Biopic looks at Twain's early years". Jam!. Canadian Online Explorer. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
  3. ↑ Twain, Shania, Atria Books Inks Deal for Shania Twain Memoir, Shania Twain website, archived from the original on December 20, 2010, retrieved January 19, 2011
  4. ↑ Hung, Steffen. "australian-charts.com - Shania Twain - Now". australian-charts.com. Retrieved February 25, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Shania Twain Now Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved February 25, 2018.
  6. ↑ "Scoop: For Shania Twain, an Eja Minor". People.com. December 3, 2001. Archived from the original on November 7, 2012. Retrieved March 13, 2012.
  7. ↑ Shania Twain, Mutt Lange Separating After 14 Years They are now getting a divorce.
  8. ↑ MSN news Archived 2008-05-17 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on May 16, 2008.
  9. ↑ Julie Dam (June 10, 2010). "Shania Twain Is Officially Divorced – and 'Radiantly Happy'". People. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
  10. ↑ "Shania Twain Engaged to Frederic Thiebaud". Cmt.com. December 20, 2010. Retrieved March 3, 2011.
  11. ↑ Chiu, Alexis. "Shania's Broken Heart", People magazine, June 9, 2008
  12. ↑ "Twain gets married Saturday". Country Standard Time. January 2, 2011. Retrieved January 3, 2011.
  13. ↑ Holly George Warren.Shania Twain 2 Archived 2008-06-19 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ↑ "2011 Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrities: Past Winners Archived 2012-04-22 at the Wayback Machine," PETA.org, accessed February 29, 2012.
  15. ↑ "It's Official – There is a Shania Twain Autobiography Book Deal". September 22, 2010. Archived from the original on September 27, 2010. Retrieved July 29, 2012.
  16. ↑ "News". Shaniatwain.com. Archived from the original on March 14, 2011. Retrieved March 3, 2011.
  17. ↑ The Greatest: 40 Greatest Women of Country Music, Cmt.com, retrieved October 1, 2009
  18. ↑ "Shania Twain in Canada's Walk of Fame". Archived from the original on February 3, 2007. Retrieved July 29, 2012.
  19. ↑ Shania Twain Centre, Shaniatwaincenter.com, archived from the original on February 3, 2009, retrieved October 1, 2009
  20. ↑ CTV, Ctv.ca, November 18, 2005, archived from the original on August 17, 2009, retrieved October 1, 2009
  21. ↑ "News". Shaniatwain.com. Archived from the original on October 3, 2011. Retrieved October 1, 2011.
  22. ↑ "Shania Twain debuts 'Life's About To Get Good' in comeback set at Stagecoach 2017". Desert Sun. Retrieved April 30, 2017.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.