- Born
- Birth nameEilleen Regina Edwards
- Nicknames
- The Queen of Country Pop
- The Country Pop Queen
- Canada's Cinderella
- Height5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
- Shania Twain was born as Eilleen Regina Edwards in 1965 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, one of three daughters of Clarence and Sharon (Morrison) Edwards (sister Jill is two years older and Carrie-Ann three years younger). When she was age six, her mother remarried Jerry Twain, a full-blooded Ojibwa native from Timmins, Ontario, who adopted her as his own. She started out singing in bars as a child after hours, and, at thirteen, appeared on The Tommy Hunter Show (1965). When she was 22, her parents were killed in an accident, and she became the legal guardian of her half-brothers (Mark, then 13, and Darryl, then 14) and sister, putting her musical career on hold to raise her family. In 1991 she changed her name to Shania (meaning "I'm on my way" in Ojibwa, it was the name of a co-worker), and signed a contract with Mercury Nashville that same year. Her first album went by without notice, but her second album (produced with Mutt Lange, who she wed in 1993) broke world records with its sales!- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- SpousesFrederic Nicolas Thiebaud(January 1, 2011 - present)Mutt Lange(December 28, 1993 - June 9, 2010) (divorced, 1 child)
- ChildrenEja D'Angelo Lange
- ParentsJerry TwainSharon (Morrison) Twain
- Navel baring clothing
- On November 1, 1987, her mother and stepfather were killed in a car crash, and she became the legal guardian of her younger siblings, putting her musical career on hold to raise her family.
- The album, tour and merchandising for the album "Come On Over" (1999) made over $40,000,000 in Australia alone, where it still remains one of the longest charting albums in Australia.
- Her music video Shania Twain: Man! I Feel Like a Woman (1999) paid tribute to Robert Palmer: Addicted to Love (1986) reversing the gender roles, with Twain fronting a band of five male models playing guitars, drums and a keyboard (as Palmer fronted a band of five female models playing guitars, drums and a keyboard).
- Shy as a child, was a tomboy and hated performing. Started writing songs when she was eight years old.
- In 2004, Twain retired from performing and retreated to her home in Switzerland.
- [on inviting audience members to join her onstage] I do try to assess "Is this person drunk?" or "Is this person going to be hysterical and not manageable?" And so I do watch the body language. I don't always get it quite right, but I've never had any security issues.
- [on incorporating live animals into her act] They have a mind of their own. Sometimes they'll pee onstage or sometimes they'll poo. We just never know really what's going to happen. The unpredictability keeps us on our toes.
- It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.
- When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.
- Horses calm me. I love being around them. They smell great, they are beautiful to look at, they are loving, demanding, temperamental, and they settle you.
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