Shania Twain

This article is about the singer. For her eponymous album, see Shania Twain (album).
"Shania" redirects here. For the given name, see Shania (given name).

Shania Twain
OC
Shania Twain on a stage
Twain performing at Glastonbury 2024
Born
Eilleen Regina Edwards

(1965-08-28) August 28, 1965 (age 59)
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Occupations
  • Singer
  • songwriter
Years active1983–present
Spouses
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(m. 1993; div. 2010)​
Frédéric Thiébaud
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(m. 2011)​
Children1
AwardsFull list
Musical career
OriginTimmins, Ontario, Canada
Genres
InstrumentVocals
DiscographyShania Twain discography
Labels
Websiteshaniatwain.com

Eilleen Regina "Shania" Twain[1] OC (/aɪˈliːn/ ⓘ /ʃəˈnaɪə/ ⓘ eye-LEEN ... shə-NY-ə; née Edwards; born August 28, 1965) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. She 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.[2][3][4] Her success garnered her several titles, including the "Queen of Country Pop".[5][6] Billboard named her as the leader of the 1990s country-pop crossover stars.[7]

Raised in Timmins, Ontario, Twain pursued singing and songwriting from a young age before signing with Mercury Nashville Records in the early 1990s. Her self-titled debut studio album was a commercial failure upon release in 1993.[8] After collaborating with producer and later husband Robert John "Mutt" Lange, she rose to fame with her second studio album, The Woman in Me (1995), which brought her widespread success.[9] It sold over 20 million copies worldwide, spawned eight singles, including "Any Man of Mine" and earned her a Grammy Award.[10] Twain's third studio album, Come On Over (1997), is recognized by Guinness World Records as the biggest-selling studio album by a female solo artist.[11] It also became the best-selling country album, best-selling album by a Canadian, and one of the world's best-selling albums of all time, selling over 40 million copies worldwide.[12] Come On Over produced twelve singles, including "You're Still the One", "From This Moment On", "That Don't Impress Me Much" and "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" and earned her four Grammy Awards. Her fourth studio album, Up! (2002), spawned eight singles, including "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!", "Ka-Ching!" and "Forever and for Always", selling over 20 million copies worldwide, also being certified Diamond in the United States.

In 2004, after releasing her Greatest Hits album, which produced three singles including "Party for Two", Twain entered a hiatus, revealing years later that diagnoses with Lyme disease and dysphonia led to a severely weakened singing voice.[13][14][15][16] She chronicled her vocal rehabilitation on the OWN miniseries Why Not? with Shania Twain, released her first single in six years in 2011, "Today Is Your Day", and published an autobiography, From This Moment On. Twain returned to performing the following year with an exclusive concert residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Shania: Still the One, which ran until 2014. In 2015, she launched the North American Rock This Country Tour, which was billed as her farewell tour.[17][18] Twain released her first studio album in 15 years in 2017, Now, and embarked on the Now Tour in 2018. In 2019, she started her second Las Vegas residency, Let's Go! at the Zappos Theater. Her sixth studio album Queen of Me was released in 2023, and she embarked on the Queen of Me Tour in the same year.

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.[19][20] According to the RIAA, she is the only female artist in history to have three (consecutive) albums certified Diamond by the RIAA[21] and is the seventh best-selling female artist in the United States. Altogether Twain is ranked as the 10th best-selling artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era.[22] Billboard listed her as the 13th Greatest Music Video Female Solo Artist of all time (42nd overall).[7] According to Billboard Boxscore, she is the highest-grossing female country touring artist with $421.1 million gross from her concert tours.[23]

  1. ^ Why Not? with Shania Twain Archived July 21, 2022, at the Wayback Machine (OWN, published May 17, 2011, on YouTube)
    Quote:
    "I never feel like Shania Twain. I'm Eilleen Twain. And Shania is part of who I am."
  2. ^ Pruett, David B. (2014). "Twain, Shania". Twain, Shania | Grove Music. Oxford Music Online. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.A2258563. Archived from the original on March 1, 2020. Retrieved March 1, 2020.
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  4. ^ Gordinier, Jeff (November 8, 2002). "Shania Twain Does Not Believe in Tears". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on September 25, 2011. Retrieved March 4, 2011.
  5. ^ Davies, Hannah (September 28, 2017). "Shania Twain: Now review – bouncing back with country-pop queen". The Guardian. Archived from the original on April 24, 2018. Retrieved May 16, 2018.
  6. ^ O'Connor, Roisin (September 15, 2017). "Shania Twain interview: 'I don't have anything to hide'". The Independent. Archived from the original on May 17, 2018. Retrieved May 16, 2018.
  7. ^ a b "The 100 Greatest Music Video Artists of All Time: Staff List". Billboard. August 27, 2020. Archived from the original on October 17, 2020. Retrieved October 3, 2020.
  8. ^ Williams, Dallas (1997). Shania Twain: On My Way. ECW Press. p. 122. ISBN 1-55022-297-X.
  9. ^ Paxman, Bob (February 10, 2020). "25 Years Later: Shania Twain's 'The Woman In Me'". soundslikenashville.com. Archived from the original on March 1, 2020. Retrieved March 1, 2020.
  10. ^ "Shania Twain's the woman in me:Diamond edition to be released October 2". www.umusic.ca. Archived from the original on September 19, 2020. Retrieved December 12, 2020.
  11. ^ "Biggest-selling studio album by a female solo artist". Guinness World Records. March 12, 2015. Archived from the original on July 15, 2021. Retrieved May 26, 2023.
  12. ^ "Exclusive: Shania Twain celebrates 25 years of Come On Over". GAY TIMES. November 4, 2022. Archived from the original on March 31, 2023. Retrieved June 25, 2023.
  13. ^ "Shania Twain said 'you can't play around' with Lyme disease - CBC News". Archived from the original on March 8, 2018. Retrieved March 14, 2018.
  14. ^ "Shania Twain Not Only Lost Husband, But Also Voice". Billboard. May 4, 2011. Archived from the original on July 26, 2016. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  15. ^ Wadhwani, Anita (October 31, 2011). "Nashville clinic saves voices of the stars". USA Today. Archived from the original on February 25, 2015. Retrieved July 21, 2015.
  16. ^ "Amazon.com: Shania Twain: Digital Music". Amazon. Archived from the original on August 7, 2020. Retrieved July 13, 2017.
  17. ^ "Shania Twain – North American World Tour". Archived from the original on August 25, 2016. Retrieved August 23, 2016.
  18. ^ "Western Canadian Dates Added". shaniatwain.com. Archived from the original on July 29, 2016. Retrieved August 23, 2016.
  19. ^ "Shania's Awards". Archived from the original on September 7, 2014.
  20. ^ "Shania Twain, Hillary Lindsey, Gary Nicholson Among Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Inductees". Billboard. Archived from the original on August 3, 2022. Retrieved August 3, 2022.
  21. ^ "Gold & Platinum Turns 60!". riaa.com. Archived from the original on April 26, 2018. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
  22. ^ BLABBERMOUTH.NET – METALLICA Among Top-Selling Artists of SOUNDSCAN Era, Roadrunnerrecords.com, archived from the original on January 8, 2009, retrieved October 1, 2009
  23. ^ Nicholson, Jessica (August 24, 2023). "Top-Grossing Country Artists of All Time, According to Billboard Boxscore". Billboard. Archived from the original on September 2, 2023. Retrieved September 30, 2023.