Shania Twain

Biography

Eilleen Regina "Shania" Twain ( eye-LEEN ... shə-NY-ə) (née Edwards; born August 28, 1965) is a Canadian country singer and songwriter. She has sold more than 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. She received several titles including the "Queen of Country Pop". Billboard named her as the leader of the 1990s country pop crossover stars.

Twain grew up in Timmins, Ontario, and from a young age she pursued singing and songwriting before signing with Mercury Nashville Records in the early 1990s. Her self-titled debut studio album was a commercial failure upon release in 1993. After collaborating with producer and husband-to-be Robert John "Mutt" Lange, she rose to fame with her second studio album, The Woman in Me (1995), which brought her widespread success. It sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, spawned eight singles, including "Any Man of Mine" and earned her a Grammy Award. Twain's third studio album, Come On Over (1997), has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, making it the best-selling studio album by a female solo artist, the best-selling country album, best-selling album by a Canadian, and one of the best-selling albums of all time. 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".

In 2004, after releasing her Greatest Hits album, which produced three singles including "Party for Two", Twain entered a hiatus, stating years later that diagnoses with Lyme disease and dysphonia severely weakened her singing voice. 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. Twain released her first studio album in 15 years in 2017, Now it reached number one on the US Billboard 200 and several other charts. Her sixth studio album Queen of Me was released in 2023, and she became only the third woman to have top ten albums in the US Billboard 200 in the 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and 2020s. Twain's seventh studio album, Little Miss Twain, was released in 2026.

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