Shania Twain

This article is about the singer. For the album see Shania Twain (album) .

Shania Twain when she was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame at the Juno Awards (2011)

Shania Twain [ ʃəˈnaɪ.ə ˈtweɪn ] (born August 28, 1965 in Windsor , Ontario ; real name Eilleen Regina Edwards ) is a Canadian singer and songwriter who became known as a crossover artist in country and popular music . By 2010, Twain had been awarded a Grammy five times and the BMI Songwriter Award 27 times . Her album Come on Over , released in 1997, is the best-selling album by a solo artist. Twain has sold 85 million records worldwide to date . According to the Recording Industry Association of America , she is the sixth most successful solo artist in the US with 48 million albums sold.

Life

Shania Twain was born in Windsor, Ontario, the daughter of Clarence Edwards. She changed her real name Eilleen Regina to Shania - originally a word from the language of the Ojibwa - Indians , which means "I am on my way" . The last name Twain comes from her stepfather Jerry Twain. She grew up in the Canadian town of Timmins, where a street was named after her and a Shania Twain Museum existed, which has since been closed. On November 1, 1987, her mother and stepfather were killed in a car accident. From then on, she had to take care of her younger siblings. In an interview, she described that she sometimes lived with them near the poverty line.

Until 2008, Twain lived with her husband, the music producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange , and their son, born in 2001, in La Tour-de-Peilz on Lake Geneva in Switzerland . They married in 1993 and divorced in June 2010. In January 2011, Twain married the Swiss Nestlé manager Frédéric Thiébaud in Puerto Rico .

Career

Shania Twain (1999)

Twain's first album Shania Twain was released in 1993 and sold more than a million times in the United States. She sold more than twelve million copies of her album The Woman in Me , which followed in 1995 ; it became the most successful country album of all time to date. In 1997 the album Come on Over was released and became a great success. The singles You're Still the One , From This Moment On and That Don't Impress Me Much not only topped the country charts in 1998 , but also hit the top 10 on the official US Billboard charts while the album went up climbed to second place.

The album Come on Over was remixed in a country pop version for distribution in Europe . This version was # 1 in the UK in 1999, where it became the best-selling album of the year. In both the UK and Australia, the album sold more than a million copies each. As in the USA, the newly arranged ballads You're Still the One and From This Moment On became top 10 hits in Great Britain . The breakthrough throughout Europe came in the early summer of 1999 with the dance mix of the single That Don't Impress Me Much , which not only took third place in Great Britain, but also reached the top 10 in Germany and almost all European countries. The successor to Man! I feel like a woman! , re-released as a popmix, consolidated its European success and in the fall of 1999 reached number 3 in Great Britain and France. The album Come on Over stayed in the US and UK charts for more than two years and became the best-selling solo artist album of all time, with approximately 34 million copies sold worldwide.

Shania Twain (2004)

The following album Up! appeared in three versions in 2002. In addition to the pop version for Europe, a country version was produced for the USA, and a remix with sounds of world music was released for the rest of the market . Up! was sold 10 million times in the US through December 2003. In the meantime the album has reached eleven platinum status there. In other countries too, especially in Europe, Up! very successful, the album was number 1 in Germany and the top five in Great Britain and France. Again, it was the numerous single hits that made the album a long-running hit: I'm Gonna Getcha Good (Top 10 in GB, Top 15 in Germany and France), Ka-Ching! (Third place in Germany, Top 10 in GB), Forever and for Always (Top 10 in GB and Germany) and Thank You Baby (Top 20 in GB and Germany).

In the USA, with the exception of the top 20 listing by Forever and for Always, none of the releases there was commercially successful, but the album sold very well there. Shania Twain is the only artist whose three consecutive albums have achieved diamond status in the United States for ten million copies each. In Germany she received both the Echo and the Bambi as the most successful singer in 2004 .

Shania Twain's album Greatest Hits , which was also successful and also contains three new titles, was released in autumn 2004 . The single Party for Two in a duet with Sugar Ray singer Mark McGrath was another top 10 hit in Great Britain and Germany. In the US, the single was released as a country version in a duet with Billy Currington . In 2005 the soundtrack for the series Desperate Housewives was released , to which Twain contributed the title Shoes . In 2007 Twain recorded the duet You Needed Me with the Canadian singer Anne Murray for the album Anne Murray Duets Friends & Legends . In 2009, Twain was a visiting judge for American Idol . In June 2011, Twain was honored with a star in the Music Recordings category (6270 Hollywood Boulevard ) on the Hollywood Walk of Fame .

After a planned new album had been postponed again and again due to the upbringing of her son and a protracted loss of voice due to a Lyme borreliosis diagnosed in 2003 , Twain released her fifth studio album in 15 years with the title Now in September 2017 . It went straight to number one on the US charts a week later. The The Now Tour started in May 2018 and included a total of 74 concerts.

In 2020 she starred in the film I Still Believe . The year before, she took a role in Trading Paint .

Discography

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Studio albums

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)								Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	CA	Country	CA Country
1993	Shania Twain Mercury Nashville	-	-	-	UK- silver UK	US- platinum US	CA- × 2 Double platinum CA	Country67 (4 weeks) Country	CA Country28 (... weeks) CA Country	First published: April 20, 1993 Sales: + 1,260,000
1995	The Woman in Me Mercury Nashville	DE72 (1 week) DE	-	-	UK7th platinum (30 weeks)UK	US5 × 2 Diamond + double platinum (107 weeks)US	CA6th × 2 Double diamond (… Where.)CA	Country1 (110 weeks) Country	CA Country1 (... week) CA Country	First published: February 7, 1995 Sales: +15,510,000
1997	Come on over Mercury Nashville	DE8th × 3 Triple gold (54 weeks)DE	AT4th gold (34 weeks)AT	CH4th × 3 Triple platinum (101 weeks)CH	UK1 × 11 Eleven times platinum (161 weeks)UK	US2 × 2 Double diamond (151 weeks)US	CA1 × 2 Double diamond (… Where.)CA	Country1 (151 weeks) Country	CA Country1 (... week) CA Country	First published: November 4th, 1997 Sales: + 39,000,000
2002	Up! Mercury Nashville	DE1 × 2 Double platinum (81 weeks)DE	AT2 platinum (79 weeks)AT	CH2 × 3 Triple platinum (78 weeks)CH	UK4th × 2 Double platinum (50 weeks)UK	US1 Diamond + platinum (93 weeks)US	CA1 × 2 Double diamond (… Where.)CA	Country1 (104 weeks) Country	-	First published: November 18, 2002 Sales: +16,030,000
2017	Now Mercury Nashville	DE12 (3 weeks) DE	AT16 (2 weeks) AT	CH10 (5 weeks) CH	UK1 (7 weeks) UK	US1 (7 weeks) US	CA1 platinum (19 weeks)CA	Country1 (13 weeks) Country	-	First published: September 29, 2017 Sales: + 80,000

Awards (selection)

Shania Twain's star on the Canadian Walk of Fame

• 1995 - Top New Female Vocalist ( Academy of Country Music Awards )
• 1996 - World's Best Selling Country Artist ( World Music Awards )
• 1997 - International Achievement Award ( Juno Awards )
• 1999 - Best Country Song ( Grammy Award )
• 1999 - Entertainer of the Year ( Country Music Association Awards and Academy of Country Music Awards)
• 1999 - Favorite Female Country Artist and Favorite Female Pop / Rock Artist ( American Music Awards )
• 2000 - Favorite Female Musical Artist ( People's Choice Award )
• 2000 - Best Songwriter (Juno Awards)
• 2003 - Artist International ( Comet )
• 2004 - international artist ( ECHO )
• 2004 - international artist ( Bambi )
• 2011 - Induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame

Web links

Commons : Shania Twain  - Collection of Images

• Shania Twain in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Shania Twain website (English)
• The label's website (English)
• Shania Twain on MusicBrainz (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Still The One: Farewell tour doesn't mean goodbye for Shania Twain , July 20, 2015, accessed August 16, 2016
2. ^ "Gold and Platinum - Top Selling Artists" . Recording Industry Association of America
3. ↑ laut.de: Shania Twain
4. ↑ Article on Bunte.de
5. ↑ CMN: Shania Twain and Frédéric Thiébaud got married . Retrieved January 2, 2011.
6. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Shania Twain: Sickness Destroyed Her Voice , September 9, 2017, accessed April 23, 2018
8. ↑ cmt.com staff: Shania Twain's New Single Arrives This Week . Viacom. June 14, 2017. Retrieved September 7, 2017.
9. ↑ https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7990429/shania-twain-now-debuts-no-1-billboard-200-albums-chart
10. ↑ Shania Twain announces extensive Now tour for 2018 . In: CBC News . ( cbc.ca [accessed February 18, 2018]).
11. ↑ Brittney McKenna, Brittney McKenna: Shania Twain Announces Headlining 2018 Now Tour. In: Rolling Stone. August 17, 2017. Retrieved February 17, 2019 (American English). 
12. ↑ Shania Twain in the Canadian Country Album Charts:
    • Shania Twain : RPM Country Albums Archived from the original on October 21, 2012. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: RPM . 67, No. 12, June 15, 1998. Retrieved August 19, 2011. 
    • The Woman in Me : RPM Country Albums Archived from the original on October 21, 2012. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: RPM . 61, No. 11, April 17, 1995. Retrieved August 19, 2011. 
    • Come On Over : RPM Country Albums Archived from the original on October 21, 2012. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: RPM . 66, No. 11, November 17, 1997. Retrieved August 19, 2011. 
13. ^ Bill Harris: Biopic looks at Twain's early years. (No longer available online.) In: Jam !. Canadian Online Explorer. November 6, 2005, archived from the original on September 3, 2017 ; accessed on September 2, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
14. ^ Canadian Music Hall of Fame - Inductees. Canadian Music Hall of Fame , accessed August 6, 2017 .