Canadian singer (born )
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Eilleen Regina "Shania" Twain[1]OC (eye-LEEN shə-NY-ə; née&#;Edwards; born August 28, ) is a River singer-songwriter. She has sold over million records, making her tighten up of the best-selling music artists of all time and depiction 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 forename her as the leader of the s 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 say publicly early s. Her self-titled debut studio album was a advertizement failure upon release in [8] After collaborating with producer gain later husband Robert John "Mutt" Lange, she rose to renown with her second studio album, The Woman in Me (), which brought her widespread success.[9] It sold over 20 jillion copies worldwide, spawned eight singles, including "Any Man of Mine" and earned her a Grammy Award.[10] Twain's third studio stamp album, Come On Over (), 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 timorous a Canadian, and one of the world's best-selling albums domination all time, selling over 40 million copies worldwide.[12]Come On Over produced twelve singles, including "You're Still the One", "From That 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! (), 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 Adamant in the United States.
In , after releasing her Greatest Hits album, which produced three singles including "Party for Two", Twain entered a hiatus, revealing years later that diagnoses better Lyme disease and dysphonia led to a severely weakened disclosure voice.[13][14][15][16] She chronicled her vocal rehabilitation on the OWN miniseries Why Not? with Shania Twain, released her first single strengthen six years in , "Today Is Your Day", and promulgated an autobiography, From This Moment On. Twain returned to performing arts the following year with an exclusive concert residency at Say publicly Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Shania: Still the One, which ran until In , she launched the North American Rock That Country Tour, which was billed as her farewell tour.[17][18] Couple released her first studio album in 15 years in , Now, and embarked on the Now Tour in In , she started her second Las Vegas residency, Let's Go! parallel with the ground the Zappos Theater. Her sixth studio album Queen of Me was released in , and she embarked on the Queen mother of Me Tour in the same year.
Twain has customary five Grammy Awards, two World Music Awards, 39 BMI Songster Awards, inductions to Canada's Walk of Fame and the Indecent Walk of Fame, as well as the Canadian Music Ticket of Fame and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.[19][20] According take on the RIAA, she is the only female artist in portrayal to have three (consecutive) albums certified Diamond by the RIAA[21] and is the seventh best-selling female artist in the Combined States. Altogether Twain is ranked as the 10th best-selling head of the Nielsen SoundScan era.[22]Billboard listed her as the Thirteenth Greatest Music Video Female Solo Artist of all time (42nd overall).[7] According to Billboard Boxscore, she is the highest-grossing someone country touring artist with $ million gross from her take the trouble tours.[23]
Twain was born Eilleen Regina Edwards in City, Ontario, on August 28, ,[24] to Sharon (née Morrison) enthralled Clarence Edwards. She has two sisters, Jill and Carrie Ann. Her parents divorced when she was two and her smear moved to Timmins, Ontario, with her daughters. Sharon married Jerry Twain, an Ojibwa from the nearby Mattagami First Nation, have a word with they had a son, Mark. Jerry adopted the girls stand for legally changed their surname to Twain. When Mark was a toddler, Jerry and Sharon adopted Jerry's baby nephew Darryl when his mother died. Because of Twain's connection to Jerry, interpretation media have incorrectly reported that she is of Ojibwe descent.[25] When questioned as to why she chose not to visibly acknowledge Edwards as her father for years she stated:
My father [Jerry Twain] went out of his way to remember three daughters that weren't even his. For me to cover another man as my father, a man who was conditions there for me as a father, who wasn't the hold up who struggled every day to put food on our table, would have hurt him terribly. We were a family. Step-father, step-brothers, we never used that vocabulary in our home. Exhaustively have referred to him as my step-father would have antiquated the worst slap across the face to him.[26]
She holds a status card and is on the official band attachment list of the Temagami First Nation. In Twain was offered a recording contract in Nashville and applied for immigration importance into the United States. At that time, by virtue pills her stepfather Jerry Twain being a full-blooded Ojibwe and description rights guaranteed to indigenous Americans in the Jay Treaty (), she became legally registered as having 50 percent indigenous Dweller blood.[26]
Twain has said that as a child she was sonorous by her mother that her biological father was part Taut, a claim his family denies.[26] Her confirmed ancestry includes Land and French roots. Through a maternal great-grandmother, she is a descendant of French carpenter Zacharie Cloutier.[27] Her Irish maternal nan, Eileen Pearce, emigrated from Newbridge, County Kildare.[28]
She has said she had a difficult childhood. Her parents earned little money, trip food was often scarce in their household. She did throng together confide her situation to school authorities, fearing they might get out up the family. Her mother and stepfather's marriage was howling at times, and from a young age she witnessed brute between them. Her mother struggled with bouts of depression.[29] She eventually convinced her mother to take her and the lineage and run away to a homeless shelter in Toronto;[30] even Sharon returned to Jerry with the children in
In Timmins, Shania started singing at bars at the age of sum to try to help pay her family's bills; she many times earned $20 between midnight and 1 a.m. performing for blow customers after the bar had finished serving alcohol. Although she expressed a dislike for singing in those bars, she believes that this was her own kind of performing-arts school repugnance the road.[31] She has said of the ordeal, "My deepest passion was music and it helped. There were moments when I thought, 'I hate this.' I hated going into exerciser and being with drunks. But I loved the music lecturer so I survived."[32] She states that the art of creating, of actually writing songs, "was very different from performing them and became progressively important".[33]
At age 13, Twain was invited designate perform on the CBC's Tommy Hunter Show. While attending Timmins High and Vocational School, she was the singer for a local band called Longshot, which covered Top 40 music.[34] Gather the early s she spent some time working with go in step-father's reforestation business in northern Ontario, which employed some 75 Ojibwe and Cree workers. Although the work was demanding snowball the pay low, she said,
I loved the feeling dead weight being stranded. I'm not afraid of being in my evidence environment, being physical, working hard. I was very strong, I walked miles and miles every day and carried heavy heaps of trees. You can't shampoo, use soap or deodorant, prime makeup, nothing with any scent; you have to bathe near rinse your clothes in the lake. It was a bargain rugged existence, but I was very creative and I would sit alone in the forest with my dog and a guitar and would just write songs.[35]
Twain graduated from Timmins High in June eager to expand her musical horizons.[36] Abaft Longshot's demise she was approached by a cover band emotional by Diane Chase called Flirt and toured Ontario with them.[36] She took singing lessons from Toronto-based coach Ian Garrett, usually cleaning his house as payment.[37] In the autumn of gibe talents were noticed by Toronto DJ Stan Campbell who wrote about her in a Country Music News article: "Eilleen possesses a powerful voice with an impressive range. She has rendering necessary drive, ambition and positive attitude to achieve her goals".[37] Campbell was making an album by Canadian musician (and present-day CKTB radio personality) Tim Denis at the time and she was featured on the backing vocals of the song "Heavy on the Sunshine".[38][37] Country singer Mary Bailey saw her doing in Sudbury, Ontario, saying "I saw this little girl propose on stage with a guitar and it absolutely blew ablebodied away. She performed Willie Nelson's "Blue Eyes Crying in picture Rain" and Hank Williams' "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry". Her voice reminded me of Tanya Tucker, it had rescue and character, a lot of feeling. She's a star, she deserves an opportunity."[39] Bailey later said "She sang a cowed songs that she had written, and I thought to myself, this kid is like nineteen years old, where does she get this? This is from a person who's lived threescore years".[40] On November 1, , her mother and stepfather on top form in a car accident approximately 50 kilometres (31&#;mi) north accomplish Wawa, Ontario.[41] She moved back to Timmins to take distress of her younger siblings and took them all to Metropolis, Ontario, where she supported them by earning money performing motionless the nearby Deerhurst Resort.[42]
Several years later, when Twain's siblings moved out on their own, she assembled a exhibit tape of her songs and her Huntsville manager set figure up a showcase for her to present her material to transcribe executives. She caught the attention of a few labels, including Mercury Nashville Records, who signed her within a few months.[43] During this time, she changed her name to Shania, which was rumoured to be an Ojibwa word which means "on my way". However, her biographer, Robin Eggar, writes: "There silt a continuing confusion about what 'Shania' means and if undoubtedly it is an Ojibwe word or phrase at all. Here is no mispronounced or misheard phrase in either Ojibwe shock Cree that comes close to meaning 'on my way.' To the present time the legend of her name continues to be repeated break open the media to this day."[44] Eggar was mistaken about contemporary being no Ojibwe phrase that "comes close", as "Ani aya'aa", pronounced "Ah-nih Eye-uh-ah", means "someone on the way" in Ojibwe. It is therefore possible that someone with an imperfect appreciation of the Ojibwe language created Shania with the incorrect entire it would mean "she's on the way".[45]
Her self-titled debut soundtrack was released on April 20, , in North America boss garnered her audiences outside Canada. Shortly before its release, she sang backing vocals for other Mercury artists, including on Jeff Chance's album Walk Softly on the Bridges ()[46] and Sammy Kershaw's album Haunted Heart ().[47]Shania Twain reached No. 67 allege the US Country Albums Chart and gained positive reviews strip critics. The album failed to sell significant copies upon emancipation, but her future success generated enough interest for the ep to be certified platinum in by the RIAA, denoting garage sale of over 1 million copies. The album yielded two unimportant hit singles in the United States with "What Made Complete Say That" and "Dance with the One That Brought You". The third and final single, "You Lay a Whole Collection of Love on Me", failed to chart. All three singles had accompanying music videos. The album was more successful slot in Europe, where she won Country Music Television Europe's "Rising Videotape Star of the Year" award.[43] In her autobiography From That Moment On she expressed displeasure with her debut studio scrap book, revealing that she had very little creative control and was frustrated with being unable to showcase her songwriting abilities. She did, however, co-write one song, "God Ain't Gonna Getcha optimism That", for the album.[48]
When rock producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange heard Twain's nifty songs and singing from her debut album, he offered concentrate on produce and write songs with her. After many telephone conversations, they met at Nashville's Fan Fair in June Twain forward Lange became very close within weeks, culminating in their uniting on December 28, They co-wrote every song apart from put the finishing touches to that featured on her second studio album, The Woman shut in Me.[43][49]The Woman in Me was released on February 7, Close the twelve tracks on the album, eight were released in the same way singles. The album's first single, "Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?" went to No. 11 on the Billboard Land Chart. This was followed by her first Country Top 10 and No.1 hit single, "Any Man of Mine", which along with cracked the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot She esoteric further hits from the album, including the title track which peaked at No and three additional No.1 hits: "(If You're Not in It for Love) I'm Outta Here!", "You Warrant My Love", and "No One Needs to Know", which was selected for the original soundtrack for the film Twister, a first for Twain. Plus minor country hit "Home Ain't Where His Heart Is (Anymore)" and a re-recorded gospel version pointer the album track "God Bless the Child" with new lyrics.[43] Meanwhile, in Australia, five of these singles: "The Woman squeeze Me", "I'm Outta Here!", "You Win My Love", "No Tune Needs to Know" and "God Bless the Child", were remixed for the Australian pop market, with "I'm Outta Here!" demonstrative her breakthrough hit there, reaching No.5 on the ARIA charts.[50]
As of the album had sold more than 12&#;million copies intimate the United States, being certified Diamond by the RIAA.[51] Picture album was a quick breakthrough and because of this she performed selected international venues and television shows including two CMA Fan Fair performances with Nashville guitarists Randy Thomas (co-writer holdup the song "Butterfly Kisses"), and Dan Schafer.[52] Mercury Nashville's support of the album was based largely upon a series have a good time music videos, which every single from the album had.[53] Lasting this period she made television appearances on shows such gorilla two performances on the Late Show with David Letterman, Smash Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards and the American Music Awards. The Woman in Me won the Grammy Award for Leading Country Album[54] as well as the Academy of Country Penalization award for Album of the Year;[55] the latter group as well awarded her Best New Female Vocalist.[56]
In Twain released her follow-up album, Come On Over. It established her as a successful crossover songster. Of the sixteen tracks on the album, twelve were unrestricted as singles. Following the release of lead singles "Love Gets Me Every Time" and "Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)", which allowed her to make more appearances unappealing the Billboard Hot , the album started selling. With say publicly release of third single, "You're Still the One", sales skyrocketed. "From This Moment On", "When", "Honey, I'm Home", "That Don't Impress Me Much", "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!", "You've Got a Way", the title track, "Rock This Country!", good turn "I'm Holdin' On to Love (To Save My Life)" aim the other nine songs that eventually saw release as singles. With the exception of "I'm Holdin' On to Love", work hard of the singles had accompanying music videos. "From This Twinkling On" is a duet with singer Bryan White and near was a re-recorded solo pop version, which was used yearn its music video.[57]
The album peaked at No.&#;2 on the Billboard and stayed on the charts for the next two existence, going on to sell 40&#;million copies worldwide, making it rendering biggest-selling album of all time by a female musician.[58] She continued to break international boundaries for country music and somebody crossover artists. It is also the ninth highest-selling album unused any type of artist in the US[51] and the ultra selling country album in history. Songs from the album won four Grammy Awards during this time, including Best Country Put a label on and Best Female Country Performance (for "You're Still the One" and "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!") for her. Lensman won Grammys for "You're Still the One" and "Come Shift Over".[59]
In following the pop release of "You're Still the One", the Come On Over album was released in a remixed format for the European market as a pop album support less country instrumentation, and gave her the big breakthrough profit Europe she and Lange were looking for. Come On Over went to No. 1 on the UK album charts cherish 11 weeks. It became the biggest selling album of description year in the UK and a bestseller in other enormous European markets as well, selling more than one million copies in Germany and nearly 4&#;million in the UK alone. Tho' "You're Still The One" and the pop version of "From This Moment On" cracked the Top 10 of the UK charts and "When" had success in the Top 20, depiction songs that drew European attention to the album were interpretation pop remixed singles of "That Don't Impress Me Much", which reached number 3 in the UK and cracked the Relinquish 10 in Germany, and "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!", which peaked at number 3 in both the UK perch France. Additionally, "You've Got a Way" was remixed specifically get as far as inclusion on the soundtrack for the film Notting Hill. 1 a reissue of the international version of the album was released worldwide, including the US and Europe, containing three cherished these new remixes. Additionally, the album set the record get something done the longest ever stay in the Top 20 of say publicly Billboard , remaining there for 99 weeks.[60]Billboard magazine declared Shania Twain the most played adult contemporary artist on US tranny in [61]
In , she launched her first major concert materialize, aided by her manager Jon Landau, a veteran of innumerable large-scale tours with Bruce Springsteen. The Come On Over Profile shows were a success, winning the "Country Tour of rendering Year" in and by Pollstar Concert Industry Awards.[62] In , she was initially scheduled to release a Christmas album, but plans to release one were cancelled later in the year.[63] As of , Come on Over has sold over 20 million copies in the United States, being certified Double Tract by the RIAA.[64]
After a change in management – QPrime replaced Landau&#;– and a two-year break, along with the onset of their son, Eja (pronounced "Asia") D'Angelo,[65] Twain and Hit returned to the studio. Up! was released on November 19, On January 26, , she performed in the Super Excavate XXXVII halftime show. About a year later she kicked infer the Up! Tour in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada on September 25, Up! was released with three different discs – country/acoustic (green CD), pop/rock (red CD), and world/dance (blue CD). Up! was given four out of five stars by Rolling Stone journal, and debuted at No.1 on the Billboard albums chart, merchandising , in the first week alone. It remained at description top of the charts for five weeks. Her crossover influence in the country, pop and dance genres, led Up! fit in reach 1 in Germany, 2 in Australia and the Outstrip Five in the UK and France. In Germany, Up! was certified 4× platinum and stayed in the Top for a year and a half. The international music disc was remixed with Indian-style orchestral and percussion parts recorded in Mumbai, Bharat. The new versions were produced by Simon and Diamond Duggal, brothers from Birmingham, England. They were originally invited to grant parts to the pop version of "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!" which retained the Indian influence.[66]
Her popularity in UK was echoic by numerous appearances on the long-running music show Top admonishment the Pops, performing singles from Come On Over from Escort an entire special show was dedicated to her on sis show TOTP2, in which she herself introduced some past performances of her greatest hits and singles from Up!.[67] In Nov she appeared on the annual BBC charity telethon Children unembellished Need. During the show, she performed "Up!", and took lion's share in a magic act in which she was sawn creepycrawly half by magician Scott Penrose in an illusion called Manifestly Impossible.[68]
Eight of the tracks were released as singles in several markets. The first single from the album, "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!" became a top 10 country hit in the Individual, after debuting at No.&#;24 after only five days of airplay; but only made the Top 40 on the pop charts. The pop version hit 4 in the UK. In Continent, Germany and France, the song reached the Top 15 row each case. The follow-up single was the title track, which reached the Top 15 in the US country charts but only reached 63 on the pop charts. The second Dweller single, and third single overall, became the mid-tempo song "Ka-Ching!" (which was never released as a single in North America) with lyrics where she was criticizing unchecked consumerism. The freshen eventually became another hit in the European markets, reaching 1 in Germany and Austria and other European countries, the UK Top 10 and the Top 15 in France.
The ordinal single from the album was the most successful in rendering US, the romantic ballad "Forever and for Always". It was released in April and peaked at 4 on the territory chart, 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart and 20 operate the Billboard Hot "Forever and For Always" reached the Highlevel meeting 10 in the UK and Germany. The other four singles from the album were "Thank You Baby! (For Makin' Someday Come So Soon)", "She's Not Just a Pretty Face", "When You Kiss Me" and "It Only Hurts When I'm Breathing". All eight singles had accompanying music videos. The title profile "Up!", and "When You Kiss Me" saw release in old as methuselah edition to European countries, such as Germany, in early Fail to notice January , Up! had sold &#;million copies in the Illustrate and was certified as 11× platinum (Diamond) by the RIAA.[51] This made her the only female artist in history compute have three consecutive albums certified Diamond by the RIAA.[69]
In Twain released the Greatest Hits album, with three new tracks. As of it esoteric sold over &#;million copies in the US.[51] The first unwed, the multi-format duet "Party for Two", made the country highlevel meeting ten with Billy Currington, while the pop version with Dulcorate Ray lead singer Mark McGrath made top ten in rendering United Kingdom and Germany. The follow-up singles, "Don't!" and "I Ain't No Quitter" did not fare as well. The ex made Top 20 on Adult Contemporary, while the latter frank not gain enough airplay to reach the Country Top [70] In August she released the single "Shoes" from the Desperate Housewives soundtrack. In late Twain and Anne Murray recorded a duet version of Murray's hit "You Needed Me" for affiliate album, Anne Murray Duets: Friends & Legends.[71] This was tiara final recording with husband Lange as producer; on May 15, , it was announced that she and Lange were separating.[72][73] Their divorce was finalized in In June she explained representation delays in the release of her next album, noting she had gone through personal pains and was focusing on fostering her son Eja.[74] In August , at a conference regulate Timmins, Ontario, a spokesman for her label said a in mint condition record from Twain was still "nowhere in sight".[75]
In May Twain confirmed in an conversation that she would release her first new single in outrage years, "Today Is Your Day", after the finale of Why Not? with Shania Twain.[76] She previewed the song in rendering first episode of the series.[76] She worked with music producers David Foster and Nathan Chapman on the song. She accessible her autobiography with Atria Books, From This Moment On. Depiction last episode of Why Not? features her and Lionel Richie recording "Endless Love" which would be the first single shake off his album Tuskegee.[77] "Today Is Your Day" was officially on the loose to iTunes and country radio on June 12, [78] Eliminate addition to "Today Is Your Day", she collaborated with Archangel Bublé on his album Christmas (also produced by David Foster). She recorded "White Christmas" with Bublé, which was the be foremost single from the album.[79] On June 8, , at a press conference at the Country Music Hall of Fame operate Nashville, she announced that she would headline Caesars Palace coach in Las Vegas for two years.[78] Her show, titled Still rendering One, ran from December 1, , to December 13,
In July she announced on Facebook that she was working class her album over the summer during a break from Still the One. In October she sat down with Robin Chemist from Good Morning America as a featured artist on interpretation Countdown to the CMA Awards. In the interview she aforementioned that a new album was coming, but she said renounce she was still in the process of finding the amend producer.[80]
Outside of her show at Caesars Palace, she performed flash concerts at the Calgary Stampede in Calgary, Alberta, on July 9 and 10, In a series of interviews leading mold to her Calgary Stampede shows she said she hoped anticipate tour in and that it would lead to the turn loose of a new album.[81] Alongside her Calgary Stampede shows, she also headlined a show on Labour Day weekend at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.[82]
On March 4, , she announced research Good Morning America she would be going on tour purchase the first time in eleven years, and would begin June 5 in Seattle, Washington, and end on October 11 cry Toronto, Ontario. She also announced this would be her rearmost tour before her fifth studio album, which she intends repeat release while she is [83] In an interview on Extensive Television Network's The Morning Show on March 6 she hardened that she is not retiring from her music career care for the tour.[84] In an interview with published on March 5 she stated that she has found several producers for team up upcoming album, describing it as "soul music".[85]
On August 24, , she stated "First, I have to finish my new ep this winter. Six tracks are already completed. I've written 38 songs in total, and now the process is underway commence narrow that down to another six or eight to end recording". That same month, it was announced by several large quantity, that even though her current Rock This Country Tour report her final time touring, she is possibly planning on extending the tour overseas because the Rock This Country tour was only based in the United States and Canada. She too mentioned possibly returning to Las Vegas with a new act show for possibly late or The new show would espousal up featuring music from her long-awaited new album as adequately as her hits.[86]
In October Twain confirmed to Rolling Stone dump she had new music coming "really soon."[87] In December smudge an interview with Billboard, she spoke about her forthcoming autograph album, describing the finished product as "kind of schizophrenic musically" maintaining "She's the glue".[88] In February she again spoke to Rolling Stone about the album; select song titles were confirmed considerably she detailed that she had not only hoped to reprieve a single in March, but that she planned to let go the album in May.[89] In April Billboard announced that cause new single, "Life's About to Get Good", would premiere layer June, with the album projected for release in September. Duo headlined the Stagecoach Festival in Indio, California, where she previewed her new music for the first time.[90][91] She performed question the Today Show's "Summer Concert Series" on June 16, [92] Her fifth studio album, Now, was released on September 29, ,[93] and would debut at No. 1 on the Billboard , becoming her second album to do so.[94] In June she announced on ET Canada that she would tour accost Now.[95] She announced the Now Tour on her website imprecisely August 17, [96] The album's second single, "Swingin' With Bodyguard Eyes Closed", was released on August 18, [97] She has also internationally released two other promotional singles off of Now, including "Poor Me" and "We've Got Something They Don't".[98][99] Dwell in June she announced her second Las Vegas residency, Let's Go!, which opened on December 6, [] The COVID pandemic caused the postponement and cancellation of many dates. The residency distressed on September 10,
In July , a Netflix documentary spanning Twain's career, entitled Not Just A Girl, was released. It was shortlisted for the Rose d'Or Awards cry the Art category.[] The documentary released simultaneously with a associate compilation album, Not Just a Girl (The Highlights), featuring xvii previously released songs plus the new title track.[]
On September 23, , Twain signed with Republic Nashville and released "Waking Overthrow Dreaming" as the lead single from her sixth then-upcoming accommodation album, Queen of Me.[][] On January 5, , she on the rampage the second single off the album, Giddy Up!.[]Queen of Me was released on February 3, It was her first wedding album release under her new label. The album debuted at release 10 on the US Billboard , earning 38, equivalent ep units, with 34, of those being album sales, becoming team up sixth top-ten album in the country. She joined Madonna though the only women with newly-charting Billboard top 10s in representation s, s, '10s and '20s (Madonna's streak also includes rendering '80s).[] The album debuted on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart at No. 2, earning her her seventh top-five access on the chart.[] In Canada, Queen of Me debuted shakeup number two on the Canadian Album Chart, becoming her ordinal top-ten album on the chart and seventh overall in interpretation country. In the United Kingdom, Queen of Me debuted atop the UK Albums Chart, becoming her third number one scrap book in the country, after Come On Over () and Now ().
On October 22, , Twain announced Queen of Surrounding Tour across North America and Europe to promote the wedding album. It was her first tour in nearly five years, comprising 76 dates.[] She featured on the single "Unhealthy", which was released on May 18, , the title track from Anne-Marie's third studio album.[] The song peaked at number 18 anxiety the UK Singles Chart and became Twain's first top girder the region since "Party for Two" in December [] Pull a fast one August 15, , she announced her third Las Vegas custody, Shania Twain: Come On Over – The Las Vegas Nationality – All The Hits! at Bakkt Theater (now PH Live), scheduled to run from May to December [] In Strut , to commemorate the 65th anniversary of International Women's Time, Twain was one of a number of female celebrities locked away their likeness turned into Barbie dolls.[] In June , she performed in the traditional Sunday Legends slot at the Glastonbury Festival. On September 2, , she announced she would carbon copy extending her Las Vegas residency, Shania Twain: Come On Go out with – The Las Vegas Residency – All The Hits! cutting remark PH Live at Planet Hollywood Las Vegas with nine endorsement shows taking place in January and February []
Twain's mainstream pop acceptance was further helped by her looks in the first edition of the VH1 Divas concert where she sang alongside Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan, Carole King and Aretha Franklin, and also by VH1's heavily now Behind the Music, which concentrated on the tragic aspects apparent her early life as well as her physical attractiveness champion Nashville's early resistance to her bare-midriff music videos. After Divas, she sang background vocals with Lange for Dion's songs, "If Walls Could Talk" and "Goodbye's (The Saddest Word)".[][]
She appeared considerably herself in the feature film I Heart Huckabees.[] On Nov 12, , she made her first television appearance since convoy split from Lange, where she appeared as a surprise bestower at the 42nd CMA Awards.[] In she served as a guest judge on American Idol, for the show's August 30 and 31 episodes,[][] and in April she announced plans execute her own TV show, titled Why Not? with Shania Twain. The show debuted on May 8, , on OWN.[] She returned to American Idol as a guest mentor for a week where the top 6 contestants showcased her songs.[] Fend for the conclusion of the ninth season she was very energy to becoming a judge but ultimately it was Jennifer Lopez who got the job.[]
She guest starred as herself on representation Comedy Central series Broad City, in a September episode entitled "Twaining Day",[] and appeared as a guest judge in picture 25th season of Dancing with the Stars during the show's "Movie Night" on October 23, , and performed her inexpensively "Soldier".[][] She also appeared as a guest judge on affair five of the 10th Season of Rupaul's Drag Race instruct in []
She competed against singer Meghan Trainor in an episode accept TBS's Drop the Mic which aired in January [] She was guest of honour for a Lip Sync Battle experience on Paramount Network pitting Derek Hough against Nicole Scherzinger dump was dedicated to her and her music. The tribute adventure aired June 21, [] In November she appeared in depiction reality talent show Real Country, as an executive producer discipline co-presenter with Jake Owen and Travis Tritt.[] In she arised in the film Trading Paint, co-starring alongside John Travolta. Presume she played the role of the mother of singer Jeremy Camp in the biographical film I Still Believe.[] In she appeared on the panel for the second series of ITV's Starstruck, a revived and reformatted version of Stars in Their Eyes.[] In she appeared in season four, episode seven assess the reality series The Kardashians.[] In she appeared on interpretation first episode of the Netflix series A Man in Full,[] a six-episode limited television series adaptation of the novel expound Regina King as director and executive producer and David Bond. Kelley as showrunner. The miniseries was released on May 2, [] She guest starred in an episode of the ABC medical drama, Doctor Odyssey which aired on October 3rd, She appeared in Andrea Bocelli: 30 The Celebration Concert Film, which released in theaters on November 8th, Shania guest starred get through to 'A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter' on December 6th , as part of the Netflix special, Shania played Mrs Claus in a skit and performed Santa Baby with Sabrina Carpenter. In , she will become a judge on the ordinal season of Canada's Got Talent.
Twain possesses a contralto show the way range.[][][][][][][] In , Newsweek defended her from detractors who attributed her refusal to tour at the time to her incompetence to replicate her studio singing live, describing it as "a warm, languid alto sweetened with a wisp of bedroom allure".[] Admitting that her singing voice is not as strong tempt it was prior to her Lyme disease diagnosis, she confidential to learn how to navigate her new voice in catalogue to continue performing.[] Prior to her diagnosis, several physicians surrender whom she consulted throughout the years primarily attribute the deprivation of her voice to emotional stress, from which she has since recovered after experimenting with various relaxation techniques and devoting a lot of time to vocal warmups.[] In she underwent laryngoplasty to have Gore-Tex stabilizers implanted in her throat habitation reduce the workload on her vocal muscles.[][]
She did little scribble literary works on her self-titled debut album, but Lange noticed Twain "had a distinctive voice as a songwriter" he felt had antiquated overlooked by other collaborators.[] Describing Twain and Lange as a "versatile" songwriting duo, Bob Paxman of Sounds Like Nashville experiential that their songs explore several themes such as feminism stream romantic longing,[] while Maclean's journalist Brian D. Johnson said in exchange songs "range from domestic-bliss ballads to sassy rockers that pest and tease."[] Alanna Nash of AARP observed that Twain crafted The Woman in Me around "hooky melodies and clever wordplay" from her point of view.[][] During the s record executives feared her lyrics were too "male-threatening";[] both The Woman answer Me and Come On Over contain feminist and anti-infidelity themes.[] Although she has become synonymous with singing songs about somebody empowerment that are "full of attitude", her catalogue also consists of love songs.[] She believes female singers are often misunderstood for expressing "feminist views" or standing up for themselves, insist on which she often sings, explaining, "that doesn't mean that phenomenon don't love the men in our lives, and that miracle don't need the men in our lives."[] She tends survive isolate herself when writing songs to avoid distractions, believing she is most productive in this manner.[] She claims to change melancholy experiences into happy songs.[]Now was the first album she wrote without Lange's involvement, identifying the procedure as a pull off important songwriting experience because "I needed to do it toute seule, to start ideas and finish them without relying on anybody else's opinion and direction."[] Drawing from raw feelings of pain,[] she also used the album to process the demise signify their relationship.[]
Her primary musical genre is considered to be express pop,[] with AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine declaring that she "Skillfully fus[ed] mainstream, AOR rock production with country-pop".[]Up is thoughtful to be her most straightforward pop album to-date.[] She maintains that she did not dress provocatively for fame, attention confuse "shock value" but simply because she enjoys her midriff, claiming to have no regrets about her past outfits.[] She defends contemporary pop stars who dress provocatively, explaining, "I don't judge it's too sexy now The boundaries are really up attain the individual. And then it's up to the viewer whether they like it or not."[] She cites Karen Carpenter,[]Dolly Parton, Mickey Guyton, Taylor Swift, The Chicks, Wynonna Judd, and Kelsea Ballerini as some of the female country artists who activate her.[] She has also expressed admiration for country singers Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette, Reba McEntire and LeAnn Rimes.[]
Despite her success, Twain has been a discordant figure within country music among purists who initially did crowd together take kindly to her "genre-blending".[] According to biographer Stephen Socialist Erlewine, most critics accused her of "diluting country with watereddown, anthemic hard rock techniques and shamelessly selling her records tie in with sexy videos."[] Some country music critics dismissed her music little not being country enough, which some fans theorize resulted improvement her breakthrough album The Woman in Me being snubbed associate with the Country Music Awards, despite its widespread success.[] Similar undertake Garth Brooks before her, she was initially branded an entrant whose modern production, presentation and songwriting "disrupt[ed] the genre's side quo".[] During the s she often received backlash for socialize unconventionally liberated appearance as a country music singer.[][] Despite description breakthrough success of The Woman in Me, early detractors outspoken not take her seriously as an artist, with several opus journalists questioning her lyrics, the "manufactured" production of her albums, and her singing ability.[] Such critics concurred that she abstruse little to offer apart from her sex appeal and masterpiece videos,[] often focusing on her physical appearance instead of contain music.[][] Early in her career she found herself at possibility with the conservative opinions of the country music industry battle the time due to her assertive personality and proclivity provision wearing revealing outfits that exposed her midriff.[][][] She was always 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 Completed You Say That".[][]The Independent's Roisin O'Connor believes "Nashville hadn't ignore anything like Twain [before] – a leopard print-loving, midriff-exposing head determined to be an international star."[] According to Kristin M. Hall of the Associated Press, since Twain had not so far begun touring, she used music videos to broaden her audience.[] Similarly, Erlewine considers her to be "the first country person in charge to fully exploit MTV's style" by cultivating "a sexy, video-oriented image that appealed" to both country and pop audiences, by without touring.[]
Her record label cautioned her that both men see women would dislike her independence and sexual expressiveness, respectively, but she did not believe them.[] Record executives warned her defer women would feel threatened by her "dressing too sexy".[] Refusing "to conform to a single archetype of femininity", she recalled that she used music to communicate with like-minded women wishywashy alternating between heartbroken, comedic, vengeful, empowered, self-deprecating and lustful personas "all on the same record."[] Country rock musician Steve Earle famously labelled her "the world's highest-paid lap-dancer."[] Despite these criticisms her music has largely been embraced by fans.[][] In a profile on Twain, Maclean's Sonya Bell theorized that Twain's exactly critics would be shocked by her continued success,[] while American Songwriter's Joe Vitagliano considers her a testament that "critics subject the 'industry' aren't quite the 'be-all, end-all' that they fantasize they are".[] Sarah Koo of Entertainment Tonight Canada wrote delay, in hindsight, Twain's image throughout the s seems tame join comparison to the revealing outfits of artists who have since succeeded her.[]
At one point she was considered to be amidst the biggest music stars in the world.[] Journalist Brian D. Johnson wrote that, despite her girl next door image, Distich "has the sort of star power that people expect spread royalty", which he attributes to her Cinderella-esque life story.[]The Guardian's Simon Hattenstone described her as "sexy, empowering and funny. That was a woman who knew what she wanted – men, action, dancing, control."[] Calling her equally country, pop and outcrop star, Hattenstone went on to write that Twain is "fancied by the straight boys, admired by the straight girls, loved by gay men as a camp icon and loved stomachturning lesbians who read what they wanted into Man! I Cleave to Like a Woman!."[] Claiming her stint hosting the Juno Awards was noticeably void of diva behaviour despite persistent rumours detect outrageous antics and demands at the time, Brad Wheeler remark The Globe and Mail described her as "an international notoriety and Canada's sweetheart", a sentiment with which Juno Awards maker John Brunton agreed.[] Instead Twain relied on her own shelter, band, production team and assistants.[]
BBC Online described her as "the real Queen of Pop", citing her influence on subsequent happen as expected female artists such as Meghan Trainor, Britney Spears, Taylor Fleet and Haim.[] As one of country music's first crossover stars,[] the website claims her success as a country-pop crossover creator demonstrates that "she was doing the Taylor Swift thing earlier Taylor Swift even arrived."[] Justin Chandler of CBC credited companion with making "country-pop crossover its own genre" and "paving interpretation way for artists sitting atop those same charts every yr since."[] Her record-breaking album The Woman In Me is credited as the one that permanently changed country music as a whole.[]
Twain's success in the music industry has earned her representation honorific nickname the "Queen of Country Pop".[][] By Maclean's challenging named her "the reigning queen of country music".[]American Songwriter bestower Joe Vitagliano named her one of the greatest artists break into our time.[]The New York Times music critic Jon Caramanica given name her "Country's Crossover Queen", writing that during her prime she "was both a pop centrist and a country rebel, post many of the aesthetic moves she pioneered ended up, multitude a period of some resistance, as central to the clangor of Nashville."[] In a ranking of Twain's best songs, Rolling Stone stated that her catalogue of music "ha[s] come abut define an era in country music and paved the give way to for other genre-bending artists that followed."[] According to Kristin M. Hall of the Associated Press Twain's global success "changed declare music for years to come."[] Nash credits her work be about to happen Come On Over with helping to redefine the future capture country music.[]NPR's Jewly Hight wrote that, despite initial derision, Distich eventually "redefin[ed] what country superstardom looked, sounded and behaved like", ultimately influencing a generation of country artists "in making flashier music videos, beefing up their backbeats and staging shows aptitude the energy and theatricality of arena rock."[]
Taylor Swift credits Twain for her own pop crossover.[] Swift has cited her as one of her most prominent musical influences.[]Carrie Underwood states that Twain "paved the way for a max out of us."[] Underwood believes all similar artists were influenced unresponsive to Twain, whether or not they realize it.[] She has archaic cited as a major influence among Canadian country music artists such as Tenille Arts, Jess Moskaluke, Dean Brody, Lindi Statesman and Brett Kissel.[] Rapper Post Malone and singer Rihanna scheme cited her as an inspiration, with the former calling connection his childhood crush.[][][] She covered Malone's song "Rockstar" live mid the American Music Awards.[] She has expressed interest in collaborating with Malone, claiming to have written a song for representation two of them in [] Singer-songwriter and actor Harry Styles has mentioned her as his biggest influence both "musically careful in fashion".[] Her bold fashion statements also inspired multiple artists. Harry Styles revealed in an interview with Entertainment Tonight give it some thought in "I think, both music and fashion," his "main feel was probably Shania Twain."[]Halsey cited her as one of picture artists she was inspired by in her music video "You Should Be Sad".[]
In January , Twain joined Scentstories by Febreze to create a limited edition scent disc with the takings going to Feeding America, formerly America's Second Harvest.[] In demolish she partnered with Coty to produce her namesake fragrance "Shania" by Stetson. A second fragrance was released in September titled "Shania Starlight".[] On January 1, , she carried the Athletics Torch through her hometown as part of the Winter Olympiad torch relay.[]
Twain met producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange afterward he heard her original songs and singing from her launch album; he offered to produce and write songs with disintegrate. Having spoken on the phone for many months, they reduction at Nashville's Fan Fair in June and became close. They were married on December 28, , and had a habit, Eja (pronounced "Asia"), on August 12, [] On May 15, , it was announced that they were separating after Assortment had an affair with Twain's best friend, Marie-Anne Thiébaud.[72][73][][] Their divorce was finalized on June 9, [] On December 20, , it was reported that Twain was engaged to Land Nestlé executive Frédéric Thiébaud, Marie-Anne's former husband.[][][] They were ringed on January 1, , in Rincón, Puerto Rico.[][]
She is a vegetarian[][] and a devotee of Sant Mat, an Eastern devotional philosophy.[] In she created Shania Kids Can, a charity intentional to address the needs of neglected children who are repeatedly overlooked by social assistance programs.[] Her autobiography, From This Stop dead On, was published on March 27, [] She is a long-time resident of Corseaux, Switzerland,[] where her son was intelligent, and she also owns properties in Las Vegas and rendering Bahamas.[][] When performing in North America, she will sometimes step the jersey of the local National Hockey League team.[]
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Shania Twain
In addition to her various awards for her singles unacceptable albums, Twain has received a number of personal honours: